Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX · Cape Canaveral SFS
- Launch (UTC)
- Oct 20, 2026, 11:04 UTC
- Outcome
- Launched successfully
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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.