Overview

• SpaceX targets 11:53 a.m. PDT Tuesday for a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg carrying Luxembourg’s NAOS plus nine rideshare payloads, with booster B1063 set to return to Landing Zone 4 on its 27th flight.
• NAOS, built by OHB Italia for Luxembourg’s government, is a very‑high‑resolution Earth‑imaging satellite expected to collect roughly 100 images per day from a 450 km orbit with a planned seven‑year service life.
• Co-passengers include Planet’s Pelican‑3 and Pelican‑4, Capella Space’s Acadia‑6, Pixxel’s FFLY‑1/‑2/‑3, and Dhruva Space’s LEAP‑1, with six of the smallsats managed by Exolaunch and two belonging to an undisclosed U.S. commercial customer.
• Starship Flight 10 is expected to depart Starbase Tuesday evening to deploy eight Starlink v3 simulators, assess Ship 37 heat‑shield hardware during reentry, and splash down the booster for hover‑control tests.
• Blue Origin’s uncrewed New Shepard NS‑35 is slated for Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. CDT with more than 40 research payloads using booster NS5 and the RSS H. G. Wells capsule, as SpaceX also lines up multiple Starlink launches including a B1067 attempt at a 30th landing.