Trailblazer was a technology demonstration satellite, which was to have been operated by theUnited States Air Force and theMissile Defense Agency . It was selected for launch under a "Jumpstart" contract, to demonstrate responsiveness, with the final payload being chosen less than a month ahead of the scheduled launch date, and was launched as the primary payload of the thirdFalcon 1 , which failed just over two minutes after launch on 3 August 2008. Two previous Falcon 1 launches also failed to reach orbit, but the fourth succeeded although it only carried a dummy payload.
It was originally built for a canceled MDA project, and was based on aSpaceDev MMB-100 satellite bus . It was launched fromOmelek Island ,Kwajalein Atoll at 03:34UTC . Several other payloads were to be launched aboard the same launch vehicle, including twoCubeSats forNASA (PRESat andNanoSail-D ), and aspace burial (Celestis-07) payload forCelestis , which would have remained attached to the launch vehicle inlow Earth orbit .
SpaceX missions and payloads
Launch vehicles Falcon 1 missions Falcon 9 missions
Demonstrations ISS logisticsCrewed Commercial SES-8 Thaicom 6 Orbcomm OG2 × 6 AsiaSat 8 AsiaSat 6 ABS-3A /Eutelsat 115 West B TürkmenÄlem 52°E Orbcomm OG2 × 11 SES-9 JCSAT-14 Thaicom 8 ABS-2A /Eutelsat 117 West B JCSAT-16 AMOS-6 †Iridium NEXT 1–10EchoStar 23 SES-10 Inmarsat-5 F4 BulgariaSat-1 Iridium NEXT 11–20 Intelsat 35e Iridium NEXT 21–30 SES-11 Koreasat 5A Iridium NEXT 31–40 Hispasat 30W-6 Iridium NEXT 41–50 Bangladesh Satellite-1 Iridium NEXT 51–55 SES-12 Telstar 19V Iridium NEXT 56–65 Telkom 4 (Merah Putih)Telstar 18V Es'hail 2 Iridium NEXT 66–75 Nusantara Satu /Beresheet Amos 17 JCSAT -18SXM 7Türksat 5A SXM 8 Türksat 5B Nilesat-301 SES-22 Galaxy33 ,34 Hotbird 13F Hotbird 13G Galaxy 31,32 Eutelsat 10BOneWeb #15O3b mPOWER 1,2OneWeb #16 Amazonas Nexus OneWeb #17 SES 18,19 Intelsat 40e O3b mPOWER 3,4 Iridium NEXT 76-80 and OneWeb #19 ArabSat 7B SATRIA Galaxy 37 O3b mPOWER 5,6 Ovzon -3Merah Putih 2 Eutelsat 36D Galileo FOC FM25,27 WorldView Legion 1,2 Astra 1P Türksat 6A ASBM 1,2 WorldView Legion 3,4 BlueBird Block 1 Galileo FOC FM26,32 OneWeb #20 Koreasat 6AOptus-X /TD7GSAT-20 SXM 9 O3b mPOWER 7,8 Astranis Thuraya 4-NGS WorldView Legion 5,6 SXM 10 MTG-S1 Kuiper-01 O3b mPOWER 9,10 Kuiper-02 Nusantara Lima Kuiper-03 Scientific Military NROL -76X-37B OTV-5Zuma SES-16 / GovSat-1 Paz GPS III -01ANASIS-II GPS III-03 NROL-108 GPS III-04 GPS III-05 COSMO-SkyMed CSG-2 NROL-87 NROL-85 (Intruder 13A/B) SARah 1EROS-C3 GPS III-06 Transport and Tracking Layer (Tranche 0, Flight 1) Transport and Tracking Layer (Tranche 0, Flight 2) 425 Project flight 1 (EO/IR) SARah 2/3 USSF-124 425 Project flight 2 (SAR #1) Weather System Follow-on Microwave 1NROL-146 NROL-186 NROL-113 NROL-167 NROL-126 GPS III-07 NROL-149 425 Project flight 3 (SAR #2) NROL-153 Spainsat NG INROL-57 NROL-69 NROL-192 NROL-145 425 Project flight 4 (SAR #3) GPS III-08 SDA Tranche 1 DES Dror-1 USSF-36 (X-37BOTV-8 ) National Advanced Optical System (NAOS) SDA Tranche 1 Transport layer T1TL-B NROL-48 SDA Tranche 1 Transport layer T1TL-C Spainsat NG II425 Project flight 5 (SAR #4) CSG-3 SDA Tranche 1 Transport layer T1TL-D SDA Tranche 1 Transport layer T1TL-E SDA Tranche 1 Tracking layer T1TR-C USSF-31 Skynet 6 ASDA Tranche 1 Transport layer T1TL-F SDA Tranche 1 Tracking layer T1TR-A SDA Tranche 1 Tracking layer T1TR-E SDA Tranche 2 Transport layer T2TL-A SDA Tranche 2 Transport layer T2TL-C SDA Tranche 2 Transport layer T2TL-D SDA Tranche 2 Transport layer T2TL-E USSF-75 USSF-70 SDA Tranche 2 Transport layer T2TL-F SDA Tranche 2 Transport layer T2TL-G SDA Tranche 2 Transport layer T2TL-H Starlink Rideshares
Falcon Heavy missions Starship missions
Flight tests Crewed Commercial
Ongoing spaceflights are underlinedFuture missions andvehicles under development in italicsFailed missions† are marked withdagger †
January February March April May June July August September October November December Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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