SpaceX on Monday, April 21 at 8:48 p.m. ET on Falcon 9 launched the Bandwagon-3 mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photos by Satnews.
On board this mission is
- ADD’s 425Sat-3 a synthetic aperture radar satellite in the Korea 425 Project constellation;
- Tomorrow Companies Inc.’s Tomorrow-S7 is part of the company’s Tomorrow.io constellation;
- German company, Atmos Space Cargo’s PHOENIX re-entry capsule, received permission for the re-entry mission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in January, which will makes it “first private company in Europe to receive such authorization and the first non-governmental entity in European history to attempt space re-entry.”
The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting the mission previously flew on the 03b mPOWER-E and Crew-10 launches. SpaceX landed the first stage booster on Landing Zone 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station after stage separation.