The USSF-67 mission carried a military communications satellite and five smaller payloads to orbit.
's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. These three are strapped together, the central one sporting a payload-carrying upper stage., and two of them came back to Earth successfully on Sunday: USSF-67's side boosters touched down safely at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is next door to KSC, eight minutes after launch. It was the second landing for each of them; both participated inThe central booster on USSF-67 was a new vehicle, and it will not get a chance to fly again.
The primary satellite on USSF-67 is Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM 2 , which is headed to geostationary orbit, about 22,200 miles aboveCBAS-2 will"provide communications relay capabilities in support of our senior leaders and combatant commanders," Space Force officials said in an emailed statement on Friday .
Also going up on USSF-67 was the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA -3A, a payload adapter that can hold up to six small satellites,Five of those slots were filled on USSF-67, the Space Force statement revealed. LDPE-3A carried two satellites, called Catcher and WASSAT, for Space Systems Command, the arm of the Space Force that's responsible for developing and sustaining space capabilities for American warfighters., EverydayAstronaut.com reported.
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