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NASA's Pandora Launched on SpaceX Rideshare Mission
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NASA's Pandora Launched on SpaceX Rideshare Mission

NASA / KSC · 2026-01-11 · photograph (digital archive)

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite, the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat, and several other payloads stands vertical on the pad at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, as part of the company’s Twilight mission.

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VSFBVandenberg Space Force BasesatelliteNASAGSFCLSPlaunchSLC-4ESpaceXFalcon 9TwilightVADR
Credit lineNASA's Pandora Launched on SpaceX Rideshare Mission. NASA/KSC, 2026-01-11. Public domain. ID: KSC-20260111-PH-SPX01_0002.
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