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The Falcon 9 upper stage from the 2020-10-24 launch deployed a payload of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit 63 minutes after liftoff.
An international consortium plans to launch a hyperspectral camera built by Dragonfly Aerospace on a NanoAvionics rideshare mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2021.
Momentus purchased rides on five SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare missions in 2020 and 2021 to demonstrate Vigoride’s ability to move customer satellites 300 to 1,200 km beyond the drop-off point.
If the liquid-oxygen issue is resolved, SpaceX will perform a static-fire test of the Falcon 9 first stage early on 2021-04-17 at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA and SpaceX are scheduled to launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour on a Falcon 9 at 6:11 a.m. Eastern on 2021-04-22 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
OQ Technology’s first satellite will launch 2021.
The Falcon 9 mission is the first of several rideshares Exolaunch is manifesting on Falcon 9 as part of a multi-launch agreement Exolaunch signed with SpaceX earlier in 2020.
SpaceX launched the National Reconnaissance Office NROL-108 mission on a Falcon 9 on 2020-12-19 at 9:00 a.m. EST.
Exolaunch personnel are performing final integration of the small satellite cluster with Falcon 9 at SpaceX’s facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Exolaunch has initiated a launch campaign to integrate 30 smallsats from the U.S. and Europe aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rideshare mission planned to launch no earlier than January 2021.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on 2020-12-19.
The Falcon 9 first stage that launched Turksat 5A previously launched the GPS SV03 satellite in June 2020 and two Starlink missions in September and October 2020.
Turksat 5B will operate from 42 degrees east in geostationary orbit and is expected to launch later in 2021 on a Falcon 9.
Unofficial manifests in early 2021 suggested SpaceX could perform more than 30 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches in 2021 for government and commercial customers and for its own Starlink satellites.
The 10 Starlink satellites authorized by the FCC will launch on a Falcon 9 no earlier than 2021-01-14 as part of the Transporter-1 dedicated smallsat rideshare mission.
The FCC filing states that Vigoride-1 would be released from the Falcon 9’s upper stage into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 525 km and would use onboard propulsion to raise its orbit to 570 km before deploying payloads.
SpaceX performed 25 orbital launches in 2020, all using Falcon 9 vehicles.
Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch 2021 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
MethaneSAT, a subsidiary of Environmental Defense Fund, will launch its MethaneSAT spacecraft on a Falcon 9 in October 2022 through SpaceX’s smallsat rideshare program.
Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its IM-2 lunar lander mission on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022.