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SAOCOM-1B

fully commercial rocket

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Payloads
3 Assets
Assets deployed on this mission
EG-1 (Tyvak 0172)
active
GNOMES-1
retired
Launch Details

Launch Date

8/30/2020

Launch Site

CC LC40

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Launch Vehicle

Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)

Mission Stats
Orbit
N/A
Operator
Unknown
Price (Est)
Secret
Payload Count
3
SAOCOM 1B
active
Entity Mentions
All verified mentions of this entity in source documents

Sequoia, Capella Space’s first operational satellite, is scheduled to launch in late March on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket alongside Argentina’s Saocom-1B synthetic aperture radar satellite.

Mentioned as: Saocom-1BSourceJan 21, 2020

SpaceX originally intended to launch Saocom-1B from Vandenberg Air Force Base but requested to launch it on a polar trajectory from Cape Canaveral.

Mentioned as: Saocom-1BSourceAug 30, 2020

SpaceX completed a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral on 2020-08-30 that delivered Argentina’s Saocom-1B radar satellite and two smallsats into low Earth orbit.

Mentioned as: Saocom-1BSourceAug 30, 2020

SpaceX deployed the Saocom-1B synthetic aperture radar satellite approximately 14 minutes after liftoff on 2020-08-30.

Mentioned as: Saocom-1BSourceAug 30, 2020