Overview
- A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:44 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 28 and completed payload deployments nearly 2 hours 45 minutes after liftoff.
- The mission carried 140 spacecraft, including 13 set to be released later by orbital transfer vehicles.
- Planet led commercial operators with 36 Dove CubeSats and two Pelican imagers, while Spire flew 11 satellites for weather and tracking services.
- Iceye launched five synthetic aperture radar satellites, including one of its first Gen4 spacecraft capable of 16-centimeter imagery.
- European government payloads included ESA’s twin HydroGNSS satellites under the Scout program and eight spacecraft for Italy’s IRIDE constellation, alongside unique missions such as the Mauve ultraviolet astronomy satellite and CTC-1 Spacecoin tests.