Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 16 (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)

• B1093 · flight 12 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Of Course I Still Love You · landed ✓ · last flew Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-26 · zone record 210/218

• SpaceX Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) — The Space Devs
• Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches over 100 rideshare payloads from Vandenberg in California — Spaceflight Now
• Transporter-16 Mission — SpaceX

1. T−38MGO for Prop Load
2. T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
3. T−35MProp Load
4. T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
5. T−7MEngine Chill
6. T−1MStartup
7. T−1MTank Press
8. T−45SGO for Launch
9. T−3SIgnition
10. P0DLiftoff
11. T+1M7SMax-Q
12. T+2M27SMECO
13. T+2M30SStage 2 Separation
14. T+2M38SSES-1
15. T+3M7SFairing Separation
16. T+6M17SEntry Burn Shutdown
17. T+6M41SEntry Burn Shutdown
18. T+8M9SStage 1 Landing Burn
19. T+8M19SSECO-1
20. T+8M33SStage 1 Landing
21. T+51M40SSES-2
22. T+51M44SSECO-2
23. T+54M39SPayload Deployment Sequence Start
24. T+1H10M12SPayload Deployment Sequence End
25. T+1H41M39SSES-3
26. T+1H41M41SSECO-3
27. T+2H13M5SSECO-4
28. T+2H13M5SSES-4
29. T+2H16M11SPayload Deployment Sequence Start
30. T+2H31M56SPayload Deployment Sequence End

• All payloads successfully deployed.

  juststephen · 3/30/2026 · source

• Liftoff.

  juststephen · 3/30/2026 · source

• Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started

  LL2 · 3/30/2026 · source

• Now targeting Mar 30 at 11:02 UTC

  Cosmic_Penguin · 3/29/2026 · source

• Now targeting Mar 30 at 10:19 UTC

  Cosmic_Penguin · 3/29/2026 · source

• GO for launch.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 3/25/2026 · source

• NET March 29, to be confirmed.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 3/20/2026 · source

• NET March 29.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 1/23/2026 · source

• NET March.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 11/2/2025 · source

• Added launch.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 6/3/2025 · source