Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-62

Falcon 9 Block 5

Apr 11, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

Mission Elapsed Time

T-00:00:00

Booster History

B1082

Flight #3

Flight #3 · Last flown 2024-02-15

Total Flights: 21
Recovery Rate: 21/21 successful landings
This Landing: Landing successful· Return to Launch Site (RTLS)
Recovery Site: Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4)
Last Flight: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-14 · 55-day turnaround

Landing Record

21 successful · 0 failed · 21 total

Mission Details

First Weather System Follow-on (WSF) satellite. WSF-M (Weather System Follow-on - Microwave) is the next-generation operational environmental satellite system for the Department of Defense (DoD), to replace the microwave wavelength weather forecasting capabilities of the DMSP satellites. Ball Aerospace has been selected in late November 2017 to be the prime contractor for 2 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) weather satellites with a passive microwave imaging radiometer instrument and hosted Government furnished energetic charged particle (ECP) sensor space weather payload developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The radiometer leverages the Ball-built Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) instrument. This mission will improve weather forecasting over maritime regions by taking global measurements of the atmosphere and ocean surface.

Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Polar Orbit (PO)

Launch Site

Pad: Space Launch Complex 4E
Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Country: 🇺🇸 USA