SpaceX deploys NASA’s Pandora, other smallsats amid 1st ‘Twilight’ rideshare mission

SpaceX debuted a new class of rideshare mission on Sunday with the launch of its first Twilight flight. The mission was described by the company as flying to a “dawn-dusk Sun-synchronous orbit” after departing from Vandenberg Space Force Base. There were 40 spacecraft jettisoned from the Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage starting roughly an hour after liftoff and concluding more than 2.5 hours into the mission. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jan 12)