Watch SpaceX launch 119 payloads to orbit from California early on March 30
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the 131-satellite Transporter 12 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Station in California, January 14, 2025. | Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX will launch more than 100 satellites into orbit from California early Monday morning (March 30), and you can watch the action live.
A Falcon 9 the rocket should take off from Vandenberg Space Base in California on Monday during a 57-minute window that opens at 6:20 a.m. EDT (10:20 a.m. GMT; 3:20 a.m. California local time).
The launch will launch SpaceX’s Transporter-16 rideshare mission. You can watch it live via SpaceXstarting approximately 15 minutes before takeoff.
As its name suggests, Transporter-16 will be the 16th mission of EspaceXThe Transporter carpooling series from . The company also runs another ride-sharing program called Bandwagon, which has four launches so far.
Together, these two programs have put a total of more than 1,600 payloads into orbit, including 143 on Carrier-1 in January 2021, which still holds the record for a single launch.
The Transporter-16 will carry 119 payloads, “including cubesatsmicrosats, hosted payloads, a re-entry vehicle, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying eight of these payloads that will be deployed later,” SpaceX wrote in a statement. description of the mission.
If all goes as planned Monday morning, the Falcon 9 first stage will land approximately 8.5 minutes after launch on the SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You,” which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean. This will be the 12th launch and landing of this particular booster, according to the mission description.
The upper stage of the rocket, for its part, will transport the 119 payloads to low earth orbitwhere they will be deployed approximately 55 minutes after takeoff.
