Falcon 9 Block 5 | CAS500-2 & CAS500-4
Launch information
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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’.

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) |
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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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