| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-12-21, 11:34 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-12-21, 03:34 (PST) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | 1071-21 | | Landing | Landing Zone 4 | | Payload | Multiple | | Customers | South Korean DAPA and others | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payloads to LEO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0hdFic_KuA | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BggYOgPmJxo | | NASASpaceflight | none | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAs5ZyGVq7s | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1870430156625752256 | | The Space Devs | |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 45th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 3 days, 22:15:24 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 62nd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 22nd landing on LZ-4

☑️ 389th Falcon family booster landing, 403rd Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 128th Falcon 9 mission this year, 414th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 130th SpaceX mission of 2024, 430th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 134th SpaceX launch this year, 446th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

Bandwagon-2

Bandwagon-2 is a dedicated rideshare mission by SpaceX. SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program provides small satellite operators with regularly scheduled, dedicated Falcon 9 rideshare missions to mid-inclination orbits for ESPA class payloads for as low as $300,000 per mission, which includes up to 50kg of payload mass.

425 Project Flight 3

Launch of the third satellite in a contract of 5 reconnaissance satellites for the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), with 1 satellite featuring an electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) telescope. The other 4 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites are to be launched at a later date.

They will be launched to low Earth orbit between 600 and 700 km by 2025, enabling South Korea’s military to observe the nuclear-armed neighbor’s key military facilities every two hours with 30-50 centimeters resolution imagery, according to a 2019 report produced by the Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning.

The project is led by the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), with input from Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Hanwha Systems, and Thales Alenia Space.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-12-21, 05:00 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-12-21, 00:00 (EST) | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | 1077-17 | | Landing | A Shortfall of Gravitas | | Customer | Astranis | | Payload | 4 MicroGEO satellites | | Payload mass | 1600 kg | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to Geostationary Transfer Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | (scrub) | | Spaceflight Now | (scrub) | | NASASpaceflight | (scrub) | | The Launch Pad | (scrub) | | SpaceX | (scrub) | | The Space Devs | |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 62nd launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 5 days, X:XX:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 63rd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 91st landing on ASOG

☑️ 390th Falcon family booster landing, 404th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 129th Falcon 9 mission this year, 415th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 131st SpaceX mission of 2024, 431st mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 135th SpaceX launch this year, 447th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

A SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch 4 MicroGEO satellites for Astranis. The satellites are designed to be much smaller than typical GEO sats and are therefore deployed closer to GEO, cutting down on the time between deployment and operation.

Of the four satellites, one named "AGILA" will provide broadband access to the Philippines through Orbits Corp, two named "NuView-A and NuView-B" will be leased to Anuvu to provide internet connectivity to airplanes and cruise ships, and the final satellite named "UtilitySat", which will be reconfigurable on orbit, will temporarily provide replacement services for the failed Arcturus satellite.

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