flown by SpaceX USA

CRS-29

Success
NOV 10202301:28:14 UTC

Dragon's trunk carried ILLUMA-T, a NASA optical communications terminal built to relay station data to the LCRD geostationary relay satellite by laser, and AWE — the Atmospheric Waves Experiment — a temperature imager for mapping the gravity waves that ripple through the mesopause and shape upper-atmosphere weather.

launched from LC-39A Kennedy

aboard Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-271 into LEO

Vehicle components · 2

  • 01 Booster B1081.2
    Landed on ground pad · LZ-1
  • 02 Cargo Dragon C211.2
    Space station resupply

Payloads · 4

  • 01

    AWE

    Atmospheric research

  • 02

    ILLUMA-T

    Communications

  • 03

    BEAK

    Technology demonstration

  • 04

    Clark Sat-1 AMBITIOUS

    Education

last updated Oct 25, 2026