Poseidon 9 | Eagle Eye Mission

Space Systems is officially targeting a NET July 2026 launch window for Poseidon 9 and the Eagle Eye 7-2 Mission. This flight is a Space Systems internal payload launching 24 eagle eye satellites to a 750km by 750km 65 degree orbit.

This mission serves as the official return-to-flight and operational debut of our heavily upgraded V6 Poseidon 9 vehicle, Notably Eagle Eye 7-3 will mark our Poseidon 9 fleet's first-ever hot-staging sequence, separating the second stage while Stage 1 is still firing. This upgrade eliminates gravity losses, yielding a boost in upper-stage insertion performance.

T+00:00:00 - Liftoff

T+00:00:55  - Max Q

T+00:02:47 - Stage 1 MECO (Most Engines Cutoff,1 Kerlin still running)

T+00:02:50 - Second stage Engine start 

T+00:02:51 - Stage Separation

T+00:02:56 - Stage 1 Boost back burn Startup (2 engines that were shutdown ignite)

T+00:03:25 - Stage 1 Boost back burn Shutdown (initally to 1 engine for fine tuning)

T+00:05:50 - Entry burn on Stage 1

T+00:06:50 - Stage 1 landing burn

T+00:07:20 - Stage 1 Landing burn shutdown

T+00:09:40 - Second Stage engine cutoff 

T+00:45:00 - Payload Deploy