Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 2 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Payloads include the South Korean government's 425 Project Flight 3.

Dedicated Rideshare · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

• B1071 · flight 21 · Return to Launch Site @ Landing Zone 4 · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-12 · zone record 35/35

• SpaceX Bandwagon 2 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare) — The Space Devs
• SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Bandwagon-2 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base - December 21, 2024 — SPACE AFFAIRS
• Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 30 payloads on the Bandwagon 2 mission from California — Spaceflight Now
• Bandwagon-2 Mission — SpaceX

1. T−38MGO for Prop Load
2. T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
3. T−35MProp Load
4. T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
5. T−7MEngine Chill
6. T−1MStartup
7. T−1MTank Press
8. T−45SGO for Launch
9. T−3SIgnition
10. P0DLiftoff
11. T+1M7SMax-Q
12. T+2M15SMECO
13. T+2M18SStage 2 Separation
14. T+2M22SStage 1 Flip
15. T+2M26SSES-1
16. T+2M31SBooster Boostback Burn Startup
17. T+3M6SFairing Separation
18. T+3M21SBooster Boostback Burn Shutdown
19. T+6M32SEntry Burn Startup
20. T+6M52SEntry Burn Shutdown
21. T+7M49SStage 1 Landing Burn
22. T+8M15SStage 1 Landing

• Launch success.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 12/21/2024 · source

• Liftoff.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 12/21/2024 · source

• Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started

  LL2 · 12/21/2024 · source

• Tweaked T-0.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 12/20/2024 · source

• GO for launch.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 12/20/2024 · source

• Delayed to December 21.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 12/19/2024 · source

• NET December 20.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 12/13/2024 · source

• NET December 29 (launch site switch is per https://twitter.com/hawkeye360/status/1859244042296385871).

  Cosmic_Penguin · 11/27/2024 · source

• Adding launch

  Nosu · 8/16/2023 · source