Twilight
Pandora is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers SmallSat mission, designed to observe at least twenty transiting exoplanets with a 0.45-metre telescope collecting simultaneous visible and near-infrared data. Its goal is to separate stellar contamination from true atmospheric absorption signatures, sharpening exoplanet composition measurements that depend on transit spectroscopy.
SpaceX's inaugural Twilight dedicated rideshare mission to low Earth orbit.
LIFTOFF
JAN 11 2026launched fromSLC-4EVandenberg
aboardFalcon 9 B5TwilightintoLEO
Payloads · 16
- 01
Pandora
Visible Astronomy
- 02
Hawk 13A-C
SIGINT
- 03
ICEYE X x 2
Earth observation
- 04
Umbra-12
Earth observation
- 05
Acadia x 2
Earth observation
- 06
HyMS
- 07
AETHER x 10
- 08
MINAS x 8 (Lemur-2)
- 09
Hydra-2
- 10
SPARCS
Space telescope
- 11
Flamingo 1
- 12
CarbSAR IOD
- 13
BlackCAT
Space telescope
- 14
Dcubed-1/Araqys-D1
- 15
Tomorrow S10-S11
Meteorology
- 16
Conecta-IoT x 4
