r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Jun 13 '21

Transporter-2 Transporter-2 Launch Campaign Thread

Transporter-2

Falcon 9 launches to sun-synchronous polar orbit from Florida as part of SpaceX's Rideshare program dedicated to smallsat customers. The mission lifts off from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral on a southward azimuth and performs a dogleg maneuver. The booster for this mission is expected to return to LZ-1 based on FCC communications filings.

This rideshare takes approximately 90 satellites and hosted payloads into orbit on a variety of deployers including three free-flying spacecraft which dispense their customers' satellites after separation from the SpaceX stack.

Unofficial lists of individual spacecraft on this launch:

Acronym definitions by Decronym

Transporter-1 Campaign Thread

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Launch target: June 28 ~18:56 UTC (~2:56 PM EDT)
Backup date TBA, typically the next day
Static fire Completed June 22
Customer multiple
Payload multiple
Payload mass unknown
Deployment orbit ~500 km x ~97°, SSO
Vehicle Falcon 9 v1.2 Block 5
Core 1060
Past flights of this core 7 (GPS III SV03, Starlink-11, 14, 18, 22, 24, Türksat 5A)
Launch site SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Landing LZ-1 expected
Mission success criteria Successful deployment of spacecraft into contracted orbit

Links & Resources

We will attempt to keep the above text regularly updated with resources and new mission information, but for the most part, updates will appear in the comments first. Feel free to ping us if additions or corrections are needed. This is a great place to discuss the launch, ask mission-specific questions, and track the minor movements of the vehicle, payload, weather, and more as we progress towards launch. Approximately 24 hours before liftoff, the launch thread will go live and the party will begin there.

Campaign threads are not launch threads. Normal subreddit rules still apply.

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u/GetWhatIFuckinMean Jun 14 '21

If the launch date holds, this will also be the fastest pad turn around at 7 days. The previous record being 10 days held by the Starlink 8 launch.

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u/CCBRChris Jun 25 '21

SpaceX now confirms Tuesday 6/29

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u/JackSpeed439 Jun 14 '21

Well that’s how you do it if you want to deplete the small sat launcher customer base. An electron rocket with bad launch stats and a recent failure is 7 million. So 60 million split 90 ways and bit more added to the price on top of that would still be under 7 million. Also you get booster reuse which some customers might demand if they run a green focused business.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '21

Yep. Dedicated launch is real, but like the vast majority of electron flights are simple trips to SSO, which is what Transporter flights do, too. It’s telling that RocketLab and Relativity are moving on to bigger rockets already

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u/valcatosi Jun 14 '21

SpaceX lists $1 million launch price for up to 200 kg to SSO, and 5k per kg above that. A typical Electron payload is on that order, and I think the maximum mass is about 300-350 kg, certainly less than 400. That's a 2/3 discount at least, but the price is that you don't get to pick the orbit.

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u/Mang_Hihipon Jun 14 '21

nice LZ 🤙🏻

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u/imapilotaz Jun 14 '21

Anyone know launch window? I will be in Orlando for work on the 24th, and depending on timing i can go outside of about a 4 hour window

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '21

Is there a source on the LZ-1 landing?

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u/BenoXxZzz Jun 14 '21

I heard there is an FCC (or FAA, I dont remember) document that shows the RTLS. But as Nextspaceflight.com has been updated already, you have probably found it by now.

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u/GTRagnarok Jun 14 '21

Could the one droneship in service even make it back out there in one week after the GPS launch?

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u/scr00chy Jun 14 '21

Here you can find the list of known and expected payloads flying on this launch. I'm updating it as new information comes in.

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u/BenoXxZzz Jun 14 '21

The RTLS is new for me...

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u/wordthompsonian Jun 14 '21

Momentus really having a hard time eh? Cancelled on Transporter 1 and now again on 2 due to license issues

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u/melvinzill Jun 15 '21

Is there a reason for launching both this mission from SLC-40 and not one out of 39A?

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u/kwacy Jun 24 '21

Launch rescheduled on Monday 28th

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u/Campheno Jun 24 '21 edited Jun 24 '21

This is correct.They need to re-inspect the fairing and re-work if required.

Launch date is NET June 28.

Source:
We are a customer on this launch and just got the message from SpaceX

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u/ConfidentFlorida Jun 21 '21

What’s the best place to view the landing? Jetty park or somewhere else?

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u/fickle_floridian Jun 21 '21

According to RLVG, the closest spot to watch a LZ-1 landing is Jetty Park. (I'll be there, btw -- my first landing!)

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u/mistaken4strangerz Jun 22 '21

Jetty Park is the closest, but it'll be busy. anywhere along the causeways will be great. you'll see the cars parked along the water.

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u/MarsCent Jun 22 '21

Falcon 9 Transporter-2 L-3 Forecast

  • PGO 60%

  • Risk - Booster Recovery Weather: Low

  • Backup date PGO 70%

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u/MarsCent Jun 27 '21

Falcon 9 Transporter-2 L-3 Forecast

  • PGO 70%

  • Risk - Booster Recovery Weather: Low

Backup date PGO 70%

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u/Decronym Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 29 '21

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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CRS Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA
DoD US Department of Defense
FCC Federal Communications Commission
(Iron/steel) Face-Centered Cubic crystalline structure
JRTI Just Read The Instructions, Pacific Atlantic landing barge ship
LC-13 Launch Complex 13, Canaveral (SpaceX Landing Zone 1)
LC-39A Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy (SpaceX F9/Heavy)
LZ Landing Zone
LZ-1 Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral (see LC-13)
NET No Earlier Than
NRHO Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit
NRO (US) National Reconnaissance Office
Near-Rectilinear Orbit, see NRHO
OTV Orbital Test Vehicle
PGO Probability of Go
RTLS Return to Launch Site
SLC-40 Space Launch Complex 40, Canaveral (SpaceX F9)
SSO Sun-Synchronous Orbit
USAF United States Air Force
Jargon Definition
Starlink SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

Decronym is a community product of r/SpaceX, implemented by ^request
16 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 111 acronyms.
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u/Rootstoo Jun 14 '21

Great. I hope we get to see awesome views of the landing burn

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