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<\/p>\nWatch live! SpaceX launches military recon satellite for NATO defense and 7 others – YouTube
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Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n SpaceX plans to launch a new Earth-observation satellite along with several smaller spacecraft from California on Tuesday (Aug. 26), and you can watch it live.<\/p>\n A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying Luxembourg’s National Advanced Optical System (NAOS) spacecraft is scheduled to lift off during a 27-minute window that opens at 2:53 p.m. EDT (1853 GMT or 11:53 a.m. PDT local) from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a>.<\/p>\n SpaceX<\/a> is planning to webcast the mission beginning about 15 minutes prior to launch. You can watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company’s website<\/a> or its account on the X social media network.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Artist’s rendering of OHB Italia’s NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) Earth-observation satellite, which was built for Luxembourg. (Image credit: OHB Italia)<\/p>\n In addition to NOAS, which was built for Luxembourg by the company OHB Italia, the Falcon 9 will loft small satellites for Dhruva Space (LEAP-1); the San Francisco-based company Planet (Pelican-3 and Pelican-4); and Exolaunch (Capella’s Acadia-6 and Pixxel’s FFLY-1, FFLY-2, and FFLY-3).<\/p>\n If all goes to plan, NAOS will be deployed about 12 minutes into the flight, with the secondary payloads following over the next hour.<\/p>\n LEAP-1 (or Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Payloads-1) is comprised of two demonstrations, including an advanced artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) module and a hyperspectral imager. The Pelican satellites<\/a> will join Planet’s Earth-imaging constellation.<\/p>\n The Acadia and FFLY nanosats are also commercial observation platforms, the former featuring synthetic aperture radar technology and the latter high-frequency hyperspectral imaging.<\/p>\n Once spent, the Falcon 9’s first stage will land back at Landing Zone-4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg. If successful, it will be the booster’s (B1063) 27th recovery.<\/p>\n This launch will be SpaceX’s 104th Falcon 9 mission of 2025 and the 522nd Falcon 9 launch since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch live! SpaceX launches military recon satellite for NATO defense and 7 others – YouTube Watch On SpaceX…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-111291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"an](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/QGfe2cTaFyFt7tWCYJaE5c.jpg\")
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