Falcon 9 SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer F launch: date, time and live countdown
SpaceX launches SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer F on Falcon 9 from Vandenberg (SLC-4E), no earlier than Thu 31 Dec, 00:00 UTC.
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DATE CHANGES
- 6 NOV
First scheduled for Thu 31 Dec, 00:00 UTC.
- 6 NOV
Moved to Thu 31 Dec, 00:00 UTC.
- NOW
Now scheduled for Thu 31 Dec, 00:00 UTC. 1 slip so far.
MISSION
- VEHICLE
- Falcon 9
- PROVIDER
- SpaceX
- PAD
- SLC-4E, Vandenberg, California
- ORBIT
- Polar orbit
- MISSION
- Government/Top Secret
Tranche 1 Transport Layer F is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, hav
FLIGHT PROFILE·PROJECTED
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MISSION LOG
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