Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starfall reentry capsule, 31 customer payloads on Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Bandwagon 5 mission, carrying dozens of small satellites for commercial and government customers to a mid-inclination orbit. The flight also carried the second demonstration of Project Starfall, an uncrewed reentry capsule roughly 0.75 meters tall and 3.1 meters wide, weighing about 2100 kilograms, designed to autonomously return experiments and other payloads from space to Earth.
This will be the second launch of SpaceX’s uncrewed reentry capsule, Starfall. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled during a one-hour window that opens at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 UTC).
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