Welcome to the USSF-62 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread!

Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-04-11, 14:25
Scheduled for (local) 2024-04-11, 07:25 (PDT)
Launch site SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California
Payload USSF-62
Booster B1082-3
Landing site LZ-4
Customer Department of Defense
Mission success criteria Successful delivery of payloads to Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Webcasts

Stream Link
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMVBRa0diyg
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh9rJKPJ4Eo
NASASpaceflight
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXTf-uotkFc
SpaceX https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1778424969900499061
The Space Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LTpHAM3OfE

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 13th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 4 days, 12:00:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 17th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 37th Falcon 9 launch this year, 38th SpaceX launch this year

☑️ 251st consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)

☑️ 337th SpaceX mission overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 350th SpaceX launch all time (including Starship hops)

☑️ 297th Falcon Family Booster landing, 305th Falcon recovery attempt

Mission and payload info

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.

  • @DecronymABEnglish
    2•8 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    EELV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
    MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
    ~ MainEngineCutOff podcast
    NROL Launch for the (US) National Reconnaissance Office
    NSSL National Security Space Launch, formerly EELV
    SECO Second-stage Engine Cut-Off
    SES Formerly Société Européenne des Satellites, comsat operator
    ~ Second-stage Engine Start
    USSF United States Space Force

    6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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