Launch Falcon 9 / SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer E

Name: Launch Falcon 9 / SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer E
Start: 2026-07-16T00:00:00-10:00
End: 2026-07-16T23:59:59-10:00
Location: SLC-4E (~35°N), Vandenberg SFB CA, USA

Jul 16

Launching multiple satellites made by Lockheed Martin, it is one of 6 launches for USSF SDA for worldwide connectivity, which will be via Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) that have significantly better performance than radio frequency crosslinks.