Firefly Alpha Block 2 TacSat launch: date, time and live countdown
Firefly launches TacSat on Firefly Alpha Block 2 from Vandenberg (SLC-2W), no earlier than Thu 31 Dec, 00:00 UTC.
Holds can take a minute or two to show here. The webcast is always the fastest source.
DATE CHANGES
- 8 NOV
First scheduled for Thu 31 Dec, 00:00 UTC.
- NOW
Now scheduled for Thu 31 Dec, 00:00 UTC. No slips so far.
MISSION
- VEHICLE
- Firefly Alpha Block 2
- PROVIDER
- Firefly
- PAD
- SLC-2W, Vandenberg, California
- ORBIT
- Low Earth orbit
- MISSION
- Technology
TacSat is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance spacecraft with a mission to prove specialized sensing and communications capabilities on orbit. The satellite will participate in exercises that highlight cross-domain kill-web connectivity, enabling timely execution of tactical space missions. TacSat will host a proven Lockheed Martin infrared sensor on board that brings previously developed technology to space for the first time. This sensor produces high quality imagery and it can interface with federated Battle Management Command & Control (BMC2) combat systems to provide joint
FLIGHT PROFILE·PROJECTED
A projected profile for this rocket, timed to the mission's published events. It isn't data from the rocket.
MISSION LOG
The launch over your sky
A forecast from the projected flight path: cloud and the real trajectory decide what you actually see. We use your approximate city unless you choose your exact location, which stays on your device.