Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS

Launch information

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Mission description

NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO. The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.

Launch status

Launch status information for space mission ‘Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS’.

Launch image Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS

TBD

Status: To Be Determined

Class: normal

Launch T0: June 30, 2025, midnight

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles

Launch authority

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

Mission

NAOS (SSO)

Launcher

SpaceX

Rocket

Falcon 9

Location

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Pad

Space Launch Complex 4E

Type

Government/Top Secret

Orbit

Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Satellites on-board

Tracking of on-board satellites will be available after the rocket launch date (June 30, 2025).

Launch statistics

Launch statistics will be available after the rocket launch date (June 30, 2025).

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