Launch Mission: STP-2
Date: 6/25/2019
✅ Successful Launch
🧾 Mission Details
Flight #: 81
Details: Space Test Program 2 is a rideshare managed by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), launching from LC-39A, KSC. Most of the spacecraft will be delivered into low Earth orbit (LEO) in two deployment sequences separated by a second stage burn. These LEO payloads include the six Taiwan and United States owned COSMIC-2 microsatellites, the Planetary Society's LightSail-B demonstrator cubesat, and others. The third and final deployment will be the Air Force Research Lab's DSX spacecraft, which will be delivered to a medium Earth orbit (MEO). This mission will reuse the side cores from Arabsat 6A, which will return to LZ-1, and LZ-2. The new center core will boost back to land on OCISLY less than 40 km from the launch site.
🚀 Rocket Details
Type: rocket
📍 Launchpad Details
Name: Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A
Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launchpad Details Page🛰️ Cores
🧑🚀 Payloads
- Payload: DSX — Mass: 600 kgView Payload
- Payload: COSMIC-2 — Mass: 1668 kgView Payload
- Payload: GPIM — Mass: 180 kgView Payload
- Payload: Oculus-ASR — Mass: 70 kgView Payload
- Payload: OTB 1 — Mass: 138 kgView Payload
- Payload: NPSAT 1 — Mass: 86 kgView Payload
- Payload: Prox-1 — Mass: 71 kgView Payload
- Payload: LightSail-B — Mass: 5 kgView Payload
- Payload: ARMADILLO — Mass: 4 kgView Payload
- Payload: FalconSat 7 — Mass: 5 kgView Payload
- Payload: E-TBEx A & B — Mass: 4 kgView Payload
- Payload: PSat 2 — Mass: 2 kgView Payload
- Payload: BRICSat 2 — Mass: 1 kgView Payload
- Payload: TEPCE 1 & 2 — Mass: 1.5 kgView Payload
- Payload: CP9 — Mass: 1.5 kgView Payload
- Payload: StangSat — Mass: 1 kgView Payload