Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

STATUS

Launch Successful. The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

SCHEDULE HISTORY

Moved later once since SpaceDew began tracking it on Sep 23.

1. Sep 23First recorded: October 2026 · TBD
2. Oct 12Oct 19, 2026 · TBD
3. Oct 13Oct 19, 2026, 6:30 AM ET · TBC
4. Oct 13Oct 19, 2026, 6:30 AM ET · TBC
5. Oct 13Oct 19, 2026, 6:30 AM ET · Go
6. Oct 19Oct 20, 2026, 6:30 AM ET · Go later
7. Oct 19Oct 20, 2026, 6:30 AM ET · Go
8. Oct 20Oct 20, 2026, 7:04 AM ET · In Flight
9. Oct 20Oct 20, 2026, 7:04 AM ET · Success

MISSION

Mission

Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Type

Dedicated Rideshare

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. This launch also carries the second demonstration mission for SpaceX’s Project Starfall, which aims to mass-produce reentry capsules designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.

ROCKET AND PROVIDER

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5

Provider

SpaceX (commercial)

On SpaceDew

SpaceX

Window

Oct 20, 2026, 6:30 AM ET to Oct 20, 2026, 7:30 AM ET

BOOSTER

Core

B1085, on its 19th flight, 69 days after its last. Landed: A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG), autonomous spaceport drone ship, 600 km downrange.

LAUNCH SITE

Pad

Space Launch Complex 40

Location

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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