Falcon 9 Block 5 | CAS500-2 & CAS500-4

Launch information

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Mission description

CAS500-2 is the second of two similar South Korean Earth observation satellites. These spacecraft feature the AEISS-C imaging system with a ground resolution of 0.5 m in panchromatic mode and 2 m in color mode. CAS500-4 is a wide area Earth-observation satellite with a wide-area electro-optical camera (swath width of 120 km and resolution of 5 m) to be mainly used by the Rural Development Administration and the Korea Forest Service for observing crops, agricultural water resources and forest resources.

Launch status

Launch status information for space mission ‘Falcon 9 Block 5 | CAS500-2 & CAS500-4’.

Launch image Falcon 9 Block 5 | CAS500-2 & CAS500-4

TBD

Status: To Be Determined

Class: normal

Launch T0: Dec. 31, 2025, midnight

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles

Launch authority

Details about the the rocket, its target orbit and the launch pad location.

Mission

CAS500-2 & CAS500-4 (SSO)

Launcher

SpaceX

Rocket

Falcon 9

Location

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Pad

Space Launch Complex 4E

Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Satellites on-board

Tracking of on-board satellites will be available after the rocket launch date (Dec. 31, 2025).

Launch statistics

Launch statistics will be available after the rocket launch date (Dec. 31, 2025).

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