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SpaceX Aims Massive Satellite Launch At Vandenberg On Wednesday

Fans of SpaceX, the rocket launch and spacecraft company founded by technology mogul Elon Musk, have yet another opportunity to see SpaceX send a spacecraft into space from Southern California, as early as Wednesday. SpaceX said over the weekend that it is targeting a November 28th launch of Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which is north of Santa Barbara near the town of Lompoc. SmallSat Express is a collection of 64 "cubesat" satellites, collected together by space ride arranger Spaceflight, for over 35 customers. The payload includes University of North Carolina-Wilmington, NovaWurks, Ghalam, Helios Wire / Sirion Global, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB), Astrocast, Honeywell Aerospace, HawkEye 360, Nevada Museum of Art, Fleet Space Technologies, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Audacy, Capella Space Corporation, University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and many others. The dedicated small satellite ridesharing spacecraft is the first contracted by Seattle-based Spaceflight, which has normally been helping to arrange rides to space for those small satellites as "add-on" missions behind primary launch customers on a variety of rocket platforms, including those from SpaceX. Image: Artist's rendering of the Spaceflight SSO-A payload, via Spaceflight.