SpaceX - Falcon 9 - WorldView Legion 3 & 4 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFB - Space Affairs Live

Launch Date: August 15, 2024 Launch Time: 9:00 a.m. EDT, 1300 UTC, 15:00 CEST Launch Window: 9:00 a.m. EDT til 10:00 a.m. EDT Launch Status: Scheduled and announced Launch Provider: SpaceX Launcher System: Falcon 9 Block 5 (Booster B1076) Customer: Maxar Technologies Flight Number: 16 Flown missions for the booster: 15 - CRS-26, OneWeb Launch 16, Intelsat IS-40e, O3b mPOWER, Ovzon 3, Eutelsat 36D, Turksat 6A, and eight Starlink missions Mission: WorldView Legion 3 & 4 Launch Location: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA Launch Inclination: Northeast Landing: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Price: $69,75 million Rocket: - Diameter 3,7m - Height: 70 m Payload to Orbit: - LEO 22,800 kg - GTO 8,300 kg LiftOff Trust: - 7,607 Kilonewtons Fairing: - Diameter: 5,2 m - Height: 13 m Stages: - 2 SpaceX targets August 15, 2024, for a Falcon 9 launch of Maxar Technologies WorldView 3 & 4 (Maxar 2 Mission) satellites to a sun-synchronous orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The scheduled launch time is 9:00 a.m. EDT, 1300 UTC, 15:00 CEST. If needed, a backup launch opportunity is available on Friday, August 16, with a three-hour window opening at 9:00 a.m. ET. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Space Affairs live stream begins ca. 20 minutes before the planned T-Zero. WorldView Legion is a planned series of high-resolution earth observation satellites from the US company Maxar Technologies. They are intended to replace the capacities of the WorldView-1, WorldView-2, and GeoEye-1 satellites. SSL (formerly Space Systems/Loral), a subsidiary of Maxar, is building the satellites. Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, will provide the cameras. The satellites can record panchromatic resolutions of up to meters. Images with resolutions of up to m should be possible on a multispectral level. The satellites can photograph the exact locations up to 40 times a day. A total of two satellites will operate in a polar orbit and four satellites in a sun-synchronous orbit. For more information about inclination, visit (available on the launch day).