Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-62

First Weather System Follow-on (WSF) satellite. WSF-M (Weather System Follow-on - Microwave) is the next-generation operational environmental satellite system for the Department of Defense (DoD), to replace the microwave wavelength weather forecasting capabilities of the DMSP satellites. Ball Aerospace has been selected in late November 2017 to be the prime contractor for 2 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) weather satellites with a passive microwave imaging radiometer instrument and hosted Government furnished energetic charged particle (ECP) sensor space weather payload developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The radiometer leverages the Ball-built Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) instrument. This mission will improve weather forecasting over maritime regions by taking global measurements of the atmosphere and ocean surface.

Earth Science · Polar Orbit (PO)

• B1082 · flight 3 · Return to Launch Site @ Landing Zone 4 · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-14 · zone record 35/35

• SpaceX USSF-62 — The Space Devs
• SpaceX - Falcon 9 - USSF-62/WSF-M1 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA. - April 11, 2024 — SPACE AFFAIRS
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• USSF-62 Mission — SpaceX

1. T−38MGO for Prop Load
2. T−35MProp Load
3. T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
4. T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
5. T−7MEngine Chill
6. T−1MTank Press
7. T−1MStartup
8. T−45SGO for Launch
9. T−3SIgnition
10. P0DLiftoff
11. T+1M12SMax-Q
12. T+2M19SMECO
13. T+2M23SStage 2 Separation
14. T+2M30SSES-1
15. T+2M36SBooster Boostback Burn Startup
16. T+3M1SFairing Separation
17. T+3M30SBooster Boostback Burn Shutdown
18. T+6M7SEntry Burn Startup
19. T+6M25SEntry Burn Shutdown
20. T+7M24SStage 1 Landing Burn
21. T+7M52SStage 1 Landing
22. T+8M27SSECO-1
23. T+49M51SSES-2
24. T+49M56SSECO-2
25. T+54M57SPayload Separation

• Satellite confirmed in operation.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 4/12/2024 · source

• Payload deployed

  Nosu · 4/11/2024 · source

• Liftoff

  Nosu · 4/11/2024 · source

• Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started

  LL2 · 4/11/2024 · source

• Weather 95%

  Nosu · 4/11/2024 · source

• GO for launch.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 4/11/2024 · source

• NET April 11.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 4/7/2024 · source

• Delayed to April

  Nosu · 3/19/2024 · source

• Adding launch

  Nosu · 5/27/2022 · source