NEXT SPACEFLIGHT
NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Telesat Lightspeed Mission 3

Launch Time
NET 2026

Launch site to be confirmed

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5
Image Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX
Status: Active
Price: $69.75 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,607 kN
Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg
Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 70.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m
Fairing Height: 13.0 m
Details

Mission Details

Telesat Lightspeed Mission 3

Third of fourteen Falcon 9 launches with 18 Telesat Lightspeed satellites. Lightspeed is Telesat's high-throughput Ka-band broadband communications constellation that will provide low-latency global Internet access and will initially consist of 198 satellites, these satellites are being built by MDA under a $1.6 billion contract.

Payloads: 14
Total Mass: 13,500.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Wiki

Location

CCSFS/KSC, Florida or VSFB, California, USA