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Welcome to the WorldView Legion 1 & 2 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | NET April ~~2024-04-25, 18:30~~ | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | NET April ~~2024-04-25, 11:30 (PDT)~~ | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California | | Payload | WorldView Legion 1 & 2 | | Booster | Unknown | | Landing site | LZ-4 | | Customer | DigitalGlobe | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payloads to Sun-Synchronous Orbit |

Webcasts

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5hf7QpVB_w | Spaceflight Now | | NASASpaceflight |
| The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpY5vSgwMKI | SpaceX | | The Space Devs |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 14th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 14 days, 4:05:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 18th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 42nd Falcon 9 launch this year, 43rd SpaceX launch this year

☑️ 256th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)

☑️ 337th SpaceX mission overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 355th SpaceX launch all time (including Starship hops)

☑️ 302nd Falcon Family Booster landing, 312th Falcon recovery attempt

Mission and payload info

Currently being built by SSL, WorldView-Legion is DigitalGlobe's next generation of earth observation satellites.

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[–] ptfrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

"WorldView Legion 1 & 2" sounds like a computer game and its sequel! For half a second I genuinely wondered whether I'd misunderstood some aspect of how Lemmy works, or something, and was seeing posts from a different [subreddit] ...