Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-09-17, 22:50 |
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Scheduled for (local) | 2024-09-17, 18:50 (EDT) |
Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA |
Booster | B1067-22 |
Landing | Just Read the Instructions |
Payload | Galileo FOC FM26 & FM32 |
Customer | ESA/EUSPA |
Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to MEO |
Webcasts
Stream | Link |
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Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_SNrBKOng |
Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPLDpwpXy5M |
NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBeAMl-aEc |
The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rqB8fFOOM |
SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1836173431122907318 |
The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE8iaL_KrX0 |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 21st consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)
☑️ 44th launch from SLC-40 this year
☑️ 5 days, 13:58:00 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 38 day turnaround for B1067
☑️ 92nd landing on JRTI
☑️ 350th Falcon Family Booster landing, 361st Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 90th Falcon 9 mission this year, 376th Falcon 9 mission overall
☑️ 91st SpaceX mission of 2024, 391st mission overall (excluding Starship flights)
☑️ 93rd SpaceX launch this year, 404th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)
Mission info
Galileo is a global navigation satellite system that went live in 2016, created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European GNSS Agency (GSA). The €10 billion project is named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. One of the aims of Galileo is to provide an independent high-precision positioning system so European nations do not have to rely on the US GPS, or the Russian GLONASS systems, which could be disabled or degraded by their operators at any time.
The use of basic (lower-precision) Galileo services is free and open to everyone. The higher-precision capabilities are available for paying commercial users. Galileo is intended to provide horizontal and vertical position measurements within 1-metre precision, and better positioning services at higher latitudes than other positioning systems. Galileo is also to provide a new global search and rescue (SAR) function as part of the MEOSAR system.
The first Galileo test satellite, the GIOVE-A, was launched on 28 December 2005, while the first satellite to be part of the operational system was launched on 21 October 2011. By July 2018, 26 of the planned 30 active satellites (including spares) were in orbit. Galileo started offering Early Operational Capability (EOC) on 15 December 2016, providing initial services with a weak signal and reached Full Operational Capability (FOC) in 2019. The full Galileo constellation will consist of 24 active satellites, which is expected by 2021. It is expected that the next generation of satellites will begin to become operational after 2025 to replace older equipment, which can then be used for backup capabilities.
Stage 1 landing confirmed!
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1836174515002552623
The booster reentry trajectory will result in higher heating and dynamic pressure on the booster than many of our historical landings. Although the reentry conditions are on the higher end of past missions, they are still acceptable. This landing attempt will test the bounds of recovery, giving us valuable data on the design of the vehicle in these elevated entry conditions. This in turn will help us innovate on future vehicle designs to make our vehicles more robust and rapidly reusable while expanding into more challenging reentry conditions
Liftoff!
MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1836230345462616405
Deployment of Galileo L13 confirmed
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1836072848231940442
Targeting a Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission’s Galileo L13 mission from Florida later today. Teams are keeping an eye on recovery weather
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1836167646892691585
Propellant load is underway for today’s Falcon 9 launch of the Galileo L13 mission from pad 40 in Florida. Weather is currently 60% favorable for liftoff