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Launched 2026-07-16 20:32:36 UTCSpace Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Success
Reached Polar Orbit
The second stage shut down at T+8:35.
Landed
B1103 Landed
The first stage landed on Of Course I Still Love You, on its 4th flight.
Worldwide
169th
orbital launch attempt in 2026
SpaceX
86th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 4E
45th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
2 d 19 h
since the pad's previous launch
Planned times, from liftoff at . The result is at the top of the page.
Tranche 1 Transport Layer E is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites.
The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.
This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by York Space Systems.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
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Launch success.
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Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Launch Library 2
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Liftoff.
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Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Launch Library 2
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Tweaked T-0.
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Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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GO for launch.
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NET July 16 per marine navigation warnings, TBC.
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Adding launch
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Height
70m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
7,607kN
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