SpaceXFalcon 9 Block 5Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Launched
January 14, 2025 · 19:09 UTC
Image: SpaceX
Summary
Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA on January 14, 2025 at 19:09 UTC. The launch window ran from 18:49 to 19:16 UTC. It was SpaceX's 456th launch, 7th this year and humanity's 6,858th orbital launch attempt. It was the 368th Falcon 9 Block 5 flight and the 7th this year. Booster B1088 flew for the 2nd time and landed at Landing Zone 4. The payload was bound for Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). The tracked orbit of Buzzzer-1, one of 112 catalogued objects, from February 12, 2025, was 517 × 527 km inclined 97.4°. 112 objects from this launch are catalogued, 111 of them payloads.
- Watch
- Vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX
- Booster
- Mission
- Dedicated Rideshare · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)for SpX
- Milestone
- 368th Falcon 9 Block 5 flight · 7th this yearSpaceX's 456th launch7th this yearhumanity's 6,858th orbital launch attempt9th orbital launch attempt this year
Flight preview
Simulate in Flight ClubOrbit: as tracked
Buzzzer-1 · NORAD 62609 · 2025-009 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 112 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
- Object ID
- 2025-009A
- Epoch
- 2025-02-12 17:43:35 UTC
- Mean motion
- 15.16952264 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007022
- Inclination
- 97.4342°
- Ascending node
- 125.8842°
- Arg. of perigee
- 240.1977°
- Mean anomaly
- 119.8559°
- Element set
- 999
- Rev at epoch
- 437
- B*
- 0.00028619
Perigee, apogee and period are Kepler figures from the catalogued mean elements, not a propagated state. Published orbit: SSO.
Flight timeline
- T−38MGO for Prop Load
- T−35MStage 1 Propellant Load
- T−35MStage 1 LOX Load
- T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
- T−7MEngine Chill
- T−1MStartup
- T−1MTank Press
- T−45SGO for Launch
- T−3SIgnition
- T−0Liftoff
- T+1M4SMax-Q
- T+2M13SMECO
- T+2M17SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M21SStage 1 Flip
- T+2M25SSES-1
- T+2M30SBooster Boostback Burn Startup
- T+3M3SFairing Separation
- T+3M25SBooster Boostback Burn Shutdown
- T+6M12SEntry Burn Startup
- T+6M41SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+7M15SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+7M32SStage 1 Landing
- T+8M15SSECO-1
- T+50M52SSES-2
- T+50M56SSECO-2
- T+54M12SPayload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+2H22M2SPayload Deployment Sequence End
Catalogued objects
112 catalogued: 111 payloads, 1 debris; 99 still in orbit
- Buzzzer-1 · NORAD 62609 · in orbit
- Edison-1 · NORAD 62610 · in orbit
- Balkan-1 · NORAD 62611 · in orbit
- GESAT Gen1 · NORAD 62612 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-8 · NORAD 62613 · in orbit
- InnoCube · NORAD 62616 · in orbit
- SCOT-Digantara · NORAD 62617 · in orbit
- AE1d · NORAD 62618 · re-entered September 24, 2026
- IRIS-F3 · NORAD 62619 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-13 · NORAD 62621 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-9 · NORAD 62622 · in orbit
- Otter · NORAD 62623 · in orbit
Show 99 more payloads
- Flock 4g-7 · NORAD 62624 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-12 · NORAD 62625 · in orbit
- MBZSAT · NORAD 62626 · in orbit
- Ray 1.0 · NORAD 62627 · in orbit
- ION SCV Amazing Antonius · NORAD 62628 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-11 · NORAD 62629 · in orbit
- ION SCV Eminent Emmanuel · NORAD 62630 · in orbit
- Pelican 2 · NORAD 62631 · in orbit
- SIGI 1 · NORAD 62632 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-26 · NORAD 62633 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-28 · NORAD 62634 · in orbit
- GARAI A · NORAD 62635 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-20 · NORAD 62636 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-24 · NORAD 62637 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-16 · NORAD 62638 · re-entered September 8, 2026
- Flock 4g-3 · NORAD 62639 · in orbit
- UzmaSat-1 · NORAD 62640 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-27 · NORAD 62641 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-29 · NORAD 62642 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-32 · NORAD 62643 · re-entered June 18, 2026
- ANSER-L-S · NORAD 62644 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-22 · NORAD 62645 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-25 · NORAD 62646 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-23 · NORAD 62647 · in orbit
- LIME · NORAD 62648 · in orbit
- AE1c · NORAD 62649 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-34 · NORAD 62650 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-21 · NORAD 62651 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-31 · NORAD 62652 · in orbit
- PAUSAT-1 · NORAD 62653 · in orbit
- BRO-16 · NORAD 62654 · in orbit
- TROLL · NORAD 62658 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-4 · NORAD 62659 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-6 · NORAD 62660 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-2 · NORAD 62661 · in orbit
- W-2 · NORAD 62662 · re-entered February 27, 2025
- Flock 4g-5 · NORAD 62663 · in orbit
- Lyra-1 · NORAD 62664 · in orbit
- Jay D2 · NORAD 62665 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-1 · NORAD 62666 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-14 · NORAD 62667 · in orbit
- Jay C · NORAD 62668 · in orbit
- Jay D1 · NORAD 62669 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-10 · NORAD 62670 · in orbit
- SkyBee-AO1 · NORAD 62671 · in orbit
- LEO Express 2 · NORAD 62673 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-36 · NORAD 62675 · in orbit
- FOSSASAT FO019 · NORAD 62676 · in orbit
- Elevation-1 · NORAD 62677 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-15 · NORAD 62678 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-30 · NORAD 62679 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-18 · NORAD 62680 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-17 · NORAD 62681 · in orbit
- OT-FOREST-3 BJOERNTBW · NORAD 62682 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-35 · NORAD 62683 · in orbit
- IRIS-F2 · NORAD 62684 · in orbit
- Flock 4g-33 · NORAD 62685 · in orbit
- FOSSASAT FO018 · NORAD 62686 · in orbit
- Hype AGH · NORAD 62687 · re-entered December 9, 2025
- BlueBon · NORAD 62688 · in orbit
- LOGSATS-2 · NORAD 62689 · re-entered April 9, 2026
- HADES-R · NORAD 62690 · re-entered February 2, 2026
- HYDRA-T · NORAD 62692 · re-entered January 28, 2026
- Lemur-2 Wilson · NORAD 62694 · in orbit
- Connecta IOT-8 · NORAD 62695 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Star-Fox · NORAD 62696 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS2-HEO-1 · NORAD 62697 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X42 · NORAD 62698 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Arianna · NORAD 62699 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X41 · NORAD 62700 · in orbit
- Firefly 1 · NORAD 62701 · in orbit
- NORSAT-4 · NORAD 62702 · in orbit
- Connecta IOT-5 · NORAD 62703 · in orbit
- Firefly 2 · NORAD 62704 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X45 · NORAD 62705 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Alisia · NORAD 62706 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X44 · NORAD 62707 · in orbit
- Centauri 7 · NORAD 62708 · in orbit
- Connecta IOT-6 · NORAD 62709 · in orbit
- Firefly 3 · NORAD 62710 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 RoundTripper · NORAD 62711 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 MyNameIsJeff · NORAD 62712 · in orbit
- SatGus · NORAD 62713 · in orbit
- Centauri 8 · NORAD 62714 · in orbit
- Connecta IOT-7 · NORAD 62715 · in orbit
- FOSSASAT FO020 · NORAD 63003 · in orbit
- Sedna-2 · NORAD 63153 · in orbit
- PoSAT-2 · NORAD 63488 · in orbit
- HCT-SAT-1 · re-entered April 6, 2026
- Veery-0F · in orbit
- Saturnin-1 · re-entered September 23, 2026
- FGN-100-d1 · in orbit
- PARUS-T1 · in orbit
- Skylink-2 · in orbit
- FUSION 1 · in orbit
- Poquito · in orbit
- Skylink-1 · re-entered May 8, 2026
- Prometheus · re-entered April 30, 2026
- AlAinSat-1 · re-entered October 13, 2025
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.
News
Pad
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
176th launch from Space Launch Complex 4E, 2nd this year · 788th from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Local pad time at liftoff: Jan 14, 11:09 AM PST, in daylight
303 launches from this pad · 919 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
4 days 15 hours after the previous launch from this pad
Updates
All payloads deployed.
Show 9 earlier updates
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
LL2 · 1/14/2025 · source
Liftoff
hitura-nobad · 1/14/2025 · source
T-0 is accurate to the second.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/14/2025 · source
Now targeting Jan 14 at 19:09 UTC
hitura-nobad · 1/14/2025 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/14/2025 · source
Launch time is accurate to the second.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/13/2025 · source
Added launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/7/2025 · source
NET January 14.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/7/2025 · source
NET January 2025. (see also Varda W-Series 2 update at https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58044.msg2640800#msg2640800)
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/12/2024 · source
Questions
When did Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch?
Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launched on January 14, 2025 at 19:09 UTC. The launch window ran from 18:49 to 19:16 UTC.
Where can I watch Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)?
Coverage: SpaceX Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare); SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Transporter 12 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, January 14, 2025; Transporter-12 Mission. Watch the replay
What rocket launched Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)?
Falcon 9 Block 5, flown by SpaceX. Falcon 9 Block 5 spec sheet
Where did Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch from?
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA. Liftoff was Jan 14, 11:09 AM PST local time at the pad.
Did the booster land?
Booster B1088 flew for the 2nd time and landed at Landing Zone 4.
What orbit did Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) reach?
The tracked orbit of Buzzzer-1, one of 112 catalogued objects, from February 12, 2025, was 517 × 527 km inclined 97.4°.
How many satellites did Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch?
111 payloads from this launch are catalogued, 98 of them still in orbit (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).