03.05.2026 o 07:00 z Vandenberg [SLC-4E] wystrzelona została RN Falcon-9R, która wyniosła na orbitę satelity
CAS500-2,
Balkan-2,
BRO-21,
BSLT-3,
BusanSat,
Drishti,
Eycore-1,
FOREST-16 Sowitasgoht, FOREST-17 Telperion, FOREST-18 MangoShrikhand, FOREST-19 Patadastra,
FrontierSat,
Gemini-Pollux,
Helios,
Hydra-3,
ICEYE 1, ICEYE 2,
IRIDE-MS2-HEO-7, IRIDE-MS2-HEO-10, IRIDE-MS2-HEO-11, IRIDE-MS2-HEO-12, IRIDE-MS2-HEO-13, IRIDE-MS2-HEO-14, IRIDE-MS2-HEO-15,
Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle,
JEN-1,
Loft-EarthDaily-1, Loft-EarthDaily-2, Loft-EarthDaily-3, Loft-EarthDaily-4, Loft-EarthDaily-5, Loft-EarthDaily-6,
Lynk Tower 7, Lynk Tower 8,
NuLink-1, NuLink-2,
PEARL-1A, PEARL-1B,
Pelican 7, Pelican 8, Pelican 9,
QUBE-II,
RAVEN,
Selene i
SNAPPY.
Pierwszy stopień RN (B1071.33) w T+8' wylądował na LZ-4.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n260501.htm#02https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=64732.60Vandenberg Space Force Base @SLDelta30 9:25 AM · May 3, 2026
Guardians and Airmen at Vandenberg Space Force Base supported the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the CAS500-2 mission, Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 12:00 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E).
Today’s mission marked the 30th launch of 2026 from VSFB
https://twitter.com/SLDelta30/status/2050839125725479186Live coverage: SpaceX launches South Korean Earth observation satellite, plus 44 more payloads on midnight Falcon 9 rideshare missionMay 2, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith
SpaceX will launch 45 payloads on an overnight rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Station early Sunday morning.
The mission, dubbed
CAS500-2, is named for the primary payload called Compact Advanced Satellite 500-2 from the Korea Aerospace Industries, Ltd. (KAI). It’s the second of two satellites that KAI calls Phase 1 of its CAS500 program, which is designed for “precision ground-based observation.”
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 12 a.m. PDT (3 a.m. EDT / 0700 UTC). The rocket will deploy the CAS500-2 satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit about 60 minutes after launch. (...)
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1071 completed its 33rd flight on this mission. (...)
Less than 7.5 minutes after liftoff, B1071 landed at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4), adjacent to the pad it launched from. This was the 34th landing at this site and the 608th booster landing for SpaceX to date. (...)
CAS500-4 and CAS500-5 round out Phase 2 of KAI’s CAS500 program. Those satellites were slated to launch in 2025, but a new launch date for those has not been announced.
Along for the rideThe Falcon 9 rocket carries with it a series of 44 other payloads manifested by multiple partners. The vast majority of the satellites were manifested by
Exolaunch, using a variety of deployment mechanisms.
The company is responsible for
deploying 21 CubeSats and 18 MicroSats across two deployment sequences.
The first batch of satellites will be released beginning about an hour and 16 minutes after liftoff, over a period of six minutes, and the second batch about two hours and 22 minutes after liftoff, in a sequence lasting about eight minutes. (...)
Argotec, an Italian company that opened a new satellite integration facility in Melbourne, Florida, in April 2026, manifested
seven of its HEO (Hawk for Earth Observation) MicroSats, which are part of the IRIDE (Iniziativi di Resilienza per l’Italia Dalle Emergenze) constellation. IRIDE also has support from the European Space Agency (ESA).
There are currently eight HEO satellites on orbit, which launched on two previous Falcon 9 rockets.
IRIDE is described by participant company Telespazio, a Leonardo and Thales company, as a “constellation of constellations.” There are more than 73 Italian companies participating in its construction and operation.
Another series of Earth observation satellites hitching a ride on this Falcon 9 rocket come from
Loft Orbital and
EarthDaily Analytics. It’s flying
six satellites, which will be part of a constellation of more than 20 satellites in total, designed to deliver “high-frequency, calibrated, analysis-ready data designed for AI-driven insight and real-world decision making across governments and commercial industries.” (...)
Another one of the payloads onboard is
True Anomaly’s Jackal spacecraft, the fourth flight of what it described as an “autonomous orbital vehicle” that can serve in multiple orbits. True Anomaly was one of 14 companies chosen to participate in the U.S. Space Force’s Andromeda IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity) contract that will build a $1.8 billion Geosynchronous Reconnaissance Constellation (RG-XX).
The first two Jackal satellites launched onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission in March 2024 and the third launched onboard the Bandwagon-2 rideshare in December 2024. This upcoming Jackal satellite won’t be a part of that future work in GEO.
Other payloads include
Planet Labs’ Pelican Earth-observing satellites;
two of Lynk Global Lynk Tower satellites, designed for direct-to-device connectivity; and the
GalaxEye Mission Drishti, billed as India’s “largest privately built Earth observation satellite”, and features a combination of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and multi-spectral imaging sensors.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/02/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-south-korean-earth-observation-satellite-44-more-payloads-on-overnight-falcon-9-rideshare-mission/
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