SpaceXFalcon 9 Block 5Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Launched
August 16, 2024 · 18:56 UTC
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Summary
Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA on August 16, 2024 at 18:56 UTC. The launch window ran from 18:20 to 19:13 UTC. It was SpaceX's 394th launch, 83rd this year and humanity's 6,742nd orbital launch attempt. It was the 309th Falcon 9 Block 5 flight and the 80th this year. Booster B1075 flew for the 12th time and landed at Landing Zone 4. The payload was bound for Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). The tracked orbit of Waratah Seed WS-1, one of 113 catalogued objects, from August 29, 2024, was 520 × 524 km inclined 97.4°. 113 objects from this launch are catalogued, 112 of them payloads.
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- Vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX
- Booster
- B1075 · flight 12 · Return to Launch Site at Landing Zone 4 · landed35/35 landed here · 53 days after its previous flight, Starlink Group 9-2
- Mission
- Dedicated Rideshare · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)for SpX
- Milestone
- 309th Falcon 9 Block 5 flight · 80th this yearSpaceX's 394th launch83rd this yearhumanity's 6,742nd orbital launch attempt153rd orbital launch attempt this year
Flight preview
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Waratah Seed WS-1 · NORAD 60469 · 2024-149 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 113 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
- Object ID
- 2024-149B
- Epoch
- 2024-08-29 15:04:03 UTC
- Mean motion
- 15.17143075 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.000293
- Inclination
- 97.4391°
- Ascending node
- 317.9799°
- Arg. of perigee
- 47.9399°
- Mean anomaly
- 312.2083°
- Element set
- 999
- Rev at epoch
- 194
- B*
- 0.0010146
Perigee, apogee and period are Kepler figures from the catalogued mean elements, not a propagated state. Published orbit: SSO.
Catalogued objects
113 catalogued: 112 payloads, 1 debris; 90 still in orbit
- Waratah Seed WS-1 · NORAD 60469 · in orbit
- PhiSat-2 · NORAD 60470 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 TomatoKechup · NORAD 60471 · in orbit
- Connecta T4.1 · NORAD 60472 · in orbit
- Lopen · NORAD 60473 · in orbit
- Rock · NORAD 60474 · in orbit
- Connecta T4.3 · NORAD 60475 · in orbit
- QUBE · NORAD 60476 · in orbit
- Satoro-T2 · NORAD 60477 · re-entered March 2, 2026
- WREN · NORAD 60478 · in orbit
- Tomorrow-S1 · NORAD 60479 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-18 · NORAD 60480 · in orbit
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- Flock 4be-7 · NORAD 60481 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-4 · NORAD 60482 · re-entered November 18, 2025
- Flock 4be-16 · NORAD 60483 · re-entered April 25, 2026
- Flock 4be-26 · NORAD 60484 · re-entered August 25, 2026
- Tomorrow-S2 · NORAD 60485 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-36 · NORAD 60486 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-25 · NORAD 60487 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-31 · NORAD 60488 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-20 · NORAD 60489 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-23 · NORAD 60490 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-15 · NORAD 60491 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-17 · NORAD 60492 · in orbit
- Nancy Roman · NORAD 60493 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-22 · NORAD 60494 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-34 · NORAD 60495 · in orbit
- Tyche · NORAD 60496 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-32 · NORAD 60497 · in orbit
- H. Leavitt · NORAD 60498 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-30 · NORAD 60499 · re-entered September 2, 2026
- K. Von Neumann · NORAD 60500 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-11 · NORAD 60501 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-33 · NORAD 60502 · re-entered May 11, 2026
- Flock 4be-10 · NORAD 60503 · re-entered April 12, 2026
- YAM-7 · NORAD 60504 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-24 · NORAD 60505 · in orbit
- LUR-1 · NORAD 60506 · in orbit
- Tanager 1 · NORAD 60507 · in orbit
- EagleEye · NORAD 60508 · re-entered September 23, 2026
- Flock 4be-29 · NORAD 60509 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-2 · NORAD 60511 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-13 · NORAD 60512 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-27 · NORAD 60513 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-9 · NORAD 60514 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-8 · NORAD 60515 · re-entered April 3, 2026
- Flock 4be-6 · NORAD 60516 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-14 · NORAD 60517 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-1 · NORAD 60518 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-28 · NORAD 60519 · in orbit
- Iperdrone.0 · NORAD 60520 · in orbit
- GNA-3 · NORAD 60521 · re-entered July 21, 2026
- Connecta T4.2 · NORAD 60522 · in orbit
- PTD-R · NORAD 60523 · re-entered June 15, 2026
- Connecta T4.4 · NORAD 60524 · in orbit
- ORESAT0.5 · NORAD 60525 · in orbit
- Deimos · NORAD 60526 · in orbit
- CUAVA-2 · NORAD 60527 · in orbit
- Ernst · NORAD 60528 · in orbit
- GaindeSat · NORAD 60529 · re-entered January 21, 2026
- TORO · NORAD 60530 · in orbit
- HYPSO-2 · NORAD 60531 · in orbit
- Lemu Nge · NORAD 60532 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Stella · NORAD 60533 · in orbit
- Sateliot-2 · NORAD 60534 · in orbit
- Nightjar · NORAD 60535 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Marhisyam · NORAD 60536 · in orbit
- Sateliot-4 · NORAD 60537 · in orbit
- PICO-02A021 · NORAD 60538 · in orbit
- Carcara III? · NORAD 60539 · in orbit
- Hawk 10A · NORAD 60540 · in orbit
- Umbra-09 · NORAD 60541 · in orbit
- Amateru 4 · NORAD 60542 · in orbit
- AWS · NORAD 60543 · in orbit
- Capella 15 · NORAD 60544 · in orbit
- Hawk 10B · NORAD 60545 · in orbit
- Carcara IV? · NORAD 60546 · in orbit
- Umbra-10 · NORAD 60547 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X33 · NORAD 60548 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X40 · NORAD 60549 · in orbit
- Sateliot-1 · NORAD 60550 · in orbit
- BRO-14 · NORAD 60551 · in orbit
- Sateliot-3 · NORAD 60552 · in orbit
- BRO-15 · NORAD 60553 · in orbit
- UM5Sat-Ribat · NORAD 60554 · in orbit
- UM5Sat-EOSAT · NORAD 60555 · in orbit
- Kanyini · NORAD 60556 · in orbit
- TROOP-F2 · NORAD 60557 · re-entered May 14, 2026
- Flock 4be-35 · NORAD 60558 · re-entered August 29, 2026
- Flock 4be-5 · NORAD 60559 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-12 · NORAD 60560 · re-entered August 1, 2026
- Flock 4be-3 · NORAD 60561 · in orbit
- Hyperfield-1A · NORAD 60562 · in orbit
- Flock 4be-19 · NORAD 60563 · in orbit
- PICO-02C023 · NORAD 60564 · re-entered February 13, 2026
- PTD-4 · NORAD 60565 · in orbit
- PICO-02G027 · NORAD 60566 · re-entered January 31, 2026
- PICO-02F026 · NORAD 60567 · re-entered February 1, 2026
- PICO-02I029 · NORAD 60568 · re-entered February 2, 2026
- PICO-02D024 · NORAD 60569 · re-entered February 2, 2026
- PICO-02H028 · NORAD 60570 · re-entered February 3, 2026
- PICO-02B022 · NORAD 60571 · re-entered December 9, 2025
- PICO-02E025 · NORAD 60572 · re-entered December 30, 2025
- ION SCV Magnificent Monica · NORAD 60573 · in orbit
- GNOMES-5 · NORAD 60574 · in orbit
- Hawk 10C · NORAD 60575 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Ahmed-Asrar · NORAD 60576 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Lloyd · NORAD 60577 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 SquirrelComm · NORAD 60578 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Sierrini · NORAD 60579 · in orbit
- Sedna-1 · NORAD 60580 · in orbit
- CAKRA-1 · in orbit
Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org
About this launch
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
Pad
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
155th launch from Space Launch Complex 4E, 27th this year · 767th from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Local pad time at liftoff: Aug 16, 11:56 AM PDT, in daylight
303 launches from this pad · 919 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
4 days 16 hours after the previous launch from this pad
Updates
Launch success, all payloads have been deployed.
Show 9 earlier updates
Liftoff
hitura-nobad · 8/16/2024 · source
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
LL2 · 8/16/2024 · source
New T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 8/16/2024 · source
GO for launch
hitura-nobad · 8/15/2024 · source
Updating T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 8/15/2024 · source
Added launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin · 8/12/2024 · source
NET August 16.
Cosmic_Penguin · 8/11/2024 · source
NET August 15.
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/24/2024 · source
Moving to TBD date in July.
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/11/2024 · source
Questions
When did Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch?
Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launched on August 16, 2024 at 18:56 UTC. The launch window ran from 18:20 to 19:13 UTC.
Where can I watch Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)?
Coverage: YouTube; YouTube; Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 116 small payloads from Vandenberg, California. Watch the replay
What rocket launched Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)?
Falcon 9 Block 5, flown by SpaceX. Falcon 9 Block 5 spec sheet
Where did Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch from?
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA. Liftoff was Aug 16, 11:56 AM PDT local time at the pad.
Did the booster land?
Booster B1075 flew for the 12th time and landed at Landing Zone 4.
What orbit did Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) reach?
The tracked orbit of Waratah Seed WS-1, one of 113 catalogued objects, from August 29, 2024, was 520 × 524 km inclined 97.4°.
How many satellites did Transporter 11 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch?
112 payloads from this launch are catalogued, 89 of them still in orbit (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).