Blastoff! SpaceX launches Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission, nails landing in California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 30 Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission, satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 21, 2024 at 6:34 a.m. EDT (1134 GMT; 3:34 a.m. local California time). Bandwagon-2 included payloads for South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development as well as “Arrow Science and Technology, Exolaunch, HawkEye 360, Maverick Space Systems, Sidus Space, Tomorrow Companies Inc., True Anomaly and Think Orbital,“ SpaceX wrote in a mission description. Credit: SpaceX