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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare) · Falcon 9 · Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. This launch also carries the second demonstration mission for SpaceX’s Project Starfall, which aims to mass-produce reentry capsules designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.
Concerns: Liftoff Winds
- NET
- 2026-10-20 11:04 UTC
- Local
- 2026-10-20 19:04 (Asia/Shanghai)
- Window
- 2026-10-20 10:30 UTC → 2026-10-20 11:30 UTC
- Status
- Launch Successful (Success)
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 40
- Site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Probability
- 95%
- Mission type
- Dedicated Rideshare
- Vehicle record
- Falcon 9 →
- Pad record
- Space Launch Complex 40 →
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