Raumfahrt - Start von SpaceX Falcon9 mit Bandwagon-4 mission

1.11.2025

SpaceX sonic booms may startle unsuspecting sleepers early Sunday morning in Brevard County

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Sonic booms from a descending SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster should rattle communities near the Cape during early morning hours Sunday, Nov. 2.

SpaceX's Bandwagon-4 launch window extends from 1:00 a.m. to 2:03 a.m. Sunday, a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory indicates. The Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Expect sonic booms roughly eight minutes later. During SpaceX's April 21 nighttime Bandwagon-3 mission, the rocket's first-stage booster did likewise while descending to touchdown at Landing Zone 2 at the Space Force installation. The landing zone is located just north of Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and Blue Origin's New Glenn facilities at Launch Complex 36.

SpaceX's Bandwagon missions serve as "rideshare" trips into orbit for smallsat companies and other space ventures. Bandwagon-3 carried ADD’s 425Sat-3, Tomorrow Companies Inc.’s Tomorrow-S7 and Atmos Space Cargo’s PHOENIX re-entry capsule.

 

The SpaceX website advertises rideshare costs as low as $325,000 to launch a 50-kilogram payload into a sun-synchronous polar orbit.

Looking ahead on the Eastern Range calendar, another SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit on Wednesday, Nov. 5, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Launch window: 7:08 p.m. to 11:51 p.m.

Wednesday's manifest also includes United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket launch carrying a Viasat communications satellite. That 44-minute window opens at 10:24 p.m. from Launch Complex 41 at the military installation

Quelle: Florida Today

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Update: 2.11.2025

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SpaceX's nighttime Bandwagon-4 launch from Cape Canaveral

SpaceX's Bandwagon-4 rideshare mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station lifted off at 1:09 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2.

The Falcon 9 rocket deployed 18 payloads into low-Earth orbit, and the first-stage booster sparked sonic booms by returning to Landing Zone 2.

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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on Bandwagon-4 mission at 1:09 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying multiple payloads on the Bandwagon-4 ride-share mission. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 2, at 1:09 a.m. EDT (0509 UTC). The first-stage booster making its third flight will return to Cape Canaveral for a touchdown at Landing Zone 2, eight minutes after leaving the launch pad.

Quelle: Florida Today

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SpaceX launches private space station pathfinder 'Haven Demo,' 17 other satellites to orbit

"Haven Demo will test critical systems for Haven-1, including propulsion, flight computers and navigation software."

SpaceX just launched a satellite that could help pave the way for a private space station in the very near future.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 1:09 a.m. EDT (0509 GMT), on a multi-satellite rideshare mission that SpaceX calls Bandwagon-4.

Among the 18 payloads on board the Falcon 9 is Haven Demo, a pathfinder for Haven-1, the private space station that California company Vast Space plans to launch to Earth orbit next year.

"The first step in our iterative approach towards building next-generation space stations, Haven Demo will test critical systems for Haven-1, including propulsion, flight computers and navigation software," Vast wrote in a description of the satellite.

Vast's Haven-1 will launch to low Earth orbit (LEO) atop a Falcon 9, perhaps as soon as the second quarter of 2026. If that schedule holds, Haven-1 — which can support up to four astronauts at a time — will be the first standalone private space station in human history.

The other 17 payloads that went up today will be operated by South Korea's Agency for Defense Development (ADD), the Berlin-based company Exolaunch, Turkey's Fergani Space, the weather-forecasting outfit Tomorrow Companies and Starcloud, which aims to build data centers in space.

The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth as planned today about eight minutes after launch, touching down at Cape Canaveral's Landing Zone-2. It was the third flight for this particular booster, according to SpaceX.

The rocket's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 18 payloads to orbit. It will deploy them over an hour-long stretch that begins about 12 minutes after liftoff with the separation of ADD's Korea 425 satellite.

As its name suggests, Bandwagon-4 was the fourth mission in SpaceX's Bandwagon series to lift off. The company also operates another rideshare program called Transporter, which has 14 launches to its name to date.

Bandwagon-4 was the 140th Falcon 9 launch of 2025 already. More than 70% of the rocket's missions this year have been dedicated to building out Starlink,SpaceX's huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation.

Quelle: SC

 

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