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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5 · Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
SpaceX's 481st launch · 32nd this year · humanity's 6,902nd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Mar 15, 06:39 – Mar 15, 06:56 UTC
Flight preview
Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Dedicated Rideshare · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Booster
- B1081 · flight 13 · Return to Launch Site @ Landing Zone 4 · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-14 · zone record 35/35
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- SpaceX Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) — The Space Devs
- SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Transporter 13 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - March 14, 2025 — SPACE AFFAIRS
- Transporter-13 Mission — SpaceX
Flight timeline
- T−38MGO for Prop Load
- T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
- T−35MProp Load
- T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
- T−7MEngine Chill
- T−1MStartup
- T−1MTank Press
- T−45SGO for Launch
- T−3SIgnition
- P0DLiftoff
- T+1M6SMax-Q
- T+2M14SMECO
- T+2M18SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M22SStage 1 Flip
- T+2M26SSES-1
- T+2M31SBooster Boostback Burn Startup
- T+3M7SFairing Separation
- T+3M25SBooster Boostback Burn Shutdown
- T+6M2SEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M15SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+7M3SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+7M27SStage 1 Landing
- T+8M15SSECO-1
- T+51M8SSES-2
- T+51M11SSECO-2
- T+53M57SPayload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+1H6M54SPayload Deployment Sequence End
- T+1H42M23SSES-3
- T+1H42M24SSECO-3
- T+2H14M31SSES-4
- T+2H14M32SSECO-4
- T+2H17M33SPayload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+2H22M42SPayload Deployment Sequence End
Updates
All satellites deployed nominally.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/15/2025 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/15/2025 · source
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/15/2025 · source
T-0 is accurate to the second.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/14/2025 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/14/2025 · source
NET March 15 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/11/2025 · source
Delayed to NET March 14 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/10/2025 · source
NET March 12 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/7/2025 · source
Delayed to NET March 10 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/5/2025 · source
NET March 9 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin · 3/3/2025 · source
Pad — Space Launch Complex 4E
Local pad time: Mar 14, 11:43 PM PDT
283 launches from this pad · 899 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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