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Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Falcon 9/SLC-40/Cape Canaveral/LEO

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

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07Hrs
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36Min
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58Sec

Oct 19, 10:30 UTC · Window Oct 19, 10:30–Oct 19, 11:30 UTC

Lifetime

711

Success

98.3%

2026

101

Starlink

11,028

Landings

652

Reflights

615

Launch cadence

Orbital flights per year. 2026 bar is year-to-date.

This year

Cadence versus the published 2026 goal, plus the last 25 flights by type.

2026 goal

101 / 145

70% of the 145-flight target. 2025 closed at 167.

Landing rate

652 / 675

Booster recovery attempts. B1067 leads the fleet at 36 flights.

Recent mix

  • Starlink
    12
  • National
    7
  • Commercial
    4
  • Crew
    1
  • Science
    1

Manifest

Upcoming windows and the most recent flights.

Upcoming

  • Oct 16, 00:01 UTC

    USSF-481

    Falcon 9 · SLC-4E · Vandenberg·National

  • Oct 19, 10:30 UTC

    Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

    Falcon 9 · SLC-40 · Cape Canaveral·Commercial

  • Oct 20, 22:14 UTC

    Starlink Group 15-15

    Falcon 9 · SLC-4E · Vandenberg·Starlink

  • Oct 24, 05:29 UTC

    Starlink Group 15-16

    Falcon 9 · SLC-4E · Vandenberg·Starlink

  • Nov 30, 2026 NET

    Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25

    Falcon 9 · SLC-40 · Cape Canaveral·Commercial

  • Dec 31, 2026 NET

    SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer D

    Falcon 9 · Unknown Pad · Cape Canaveral·National

  • Dec 31, 2026 NET

    SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer E

    Falcon 9 · SLC-4E · Vandenberg·National

  • Dec 31, 2026 NET

    Telesat Lightspeed 1

    Falcon 9 · Unknown Pad · Cape Canaveral·Commercial

Recent

  • Oct 16, 00:01 UTC

    USSF-481

    Falcon 9 · SLC-4E · Vandenberg·National

  • Oct 13, 10:33 UTC

    Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35

    Falcon 9 · SLC-40 · Cape Canaveral·Commercial

  • Oct 13, 00:28 UTC

    Starlink Group 15-25

    Falcon 9 · SLC-4E · Vandenberg·Starlink

  • Oct 10, 07:39 UTC

    SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A

    Falcon 9 · SLC-4E · Vandenberg·National

  • Oct 2, 03:54 UTC

    NROL-97

    Falcon Heavy · LC-39A · Kennedy·National

  • Oct 1, 18:32 UTC

    Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

    Falcon 9 · SLC-4E · Vandenberg·Commercial

  • Oct 1, 15:10 UTC

    Crew-13

    Falcon 9 · SLC-40 · Cape Canaveral·Crew

  • Sep 28, 12:48 UTC

    Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)

    Starship · Pad 2 · Starbase·Starlink

Fleet

Active vehicles. Success counts include orbital attempts only.

Falcon 9

Operational

Orbital launch vehicle

678/68199.6%

70 m · 22,800 kg LEO · since 2010

The world's first orbital-class reusable booster. Block 5 is the workhorse of the manifest, flying Starlink, crew, and national security payloads.

Falcon Heavy

Operational

Heavy-lift launch vehicle

12/12100%

70 m · 63,800 kg LEO · since 2018

Three Falcon 9 cores flying together. The most powerful operational rocket until Starship, used for the heaviest civil and national security payloads.

Starship

Flight test

Fully reusable transport

7/1354%

121 m · 100,000 kg LEO · since 2023

Super Heavy plus Ship. Designed to make life multiplanetary — crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars. V3 vehicles fly from Starbase.

Dragon

Operational

Crew and cargo spacecraft

56/5798%

8.1 m · 6,000 kg LEO · since 2010

NASA's certified U.S. crew vehicle to the ISS, plus cargo resupply and private astronaut missions. 78 people from 20 countries have flown since 2020.

Range

Four pads, three coasts. Polar from California, crew from the Cape, Starship from Texas.

  • SLC-40

    Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida

    East Coast workhorse

    Falcon 9
    28.56° -80.58°

  • LC-39A

    Kennedy Space Center, Florida

    Crew, Heavy, and high-profile civil flights

    Falcon 9 · Falcon Heavy
    28.61° -80.60°

  • SLC-4E

    Vandenberg SFB, California

    Polar and sun-synchronous missions

    Falcon 9
    34.63° -120.61°

  • Pad 2

    Starbase, Texas

    Starship orbital flight tests

    Starship
    26.00° -97.16°

Company

Space Exploration Technologies was founded to make life multiplanetary. Hawthorne still designs and builds Falcon and Dragon; Starbase is the factory and range for Starship.

Founded
2002
Chief executive
Elon Musk
Headquarters
Hawthorne, California
Starbase
Starbase, Texas
People
22,000
Crew flown
78 on 20 missions
Listing
Nasdaq SPCX