Launch Mission: SSO-A

Date: 12/3/2018

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 71

Details: SpaceX's nineteenth flight of 2018 will fly SSO-A: SmallSat Express out of Vandenberg SLC-4E for Spaceflight. SSO-A is a rideshare to sun synchronus low earth orbit consisting of 64 individual microsatellites and cubesats. It is also likely to be the third flight of core B1046 which previously flew Bangabandhu-1 and Merah Putih. If this happens it will be the first time a Falcon 9 has flown more than two missions.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon 9

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4E

Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

Launchpad Details Page

🛰️ Cores

Core Serial: B1046 — Reuse Count: 3View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: SSO-A — Mass: 4000 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

Name: Just Read The Instructions 2 — Type: BargeView Ship
Name: NRC Quest — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: Pacific Freeedom — Type: TugView Ship
Name: GO Ms Tree — Type: High Speed CraftView Ship