SpaceXFalcon 9 Block 5Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Launched
March 15, 2025 · 06:43 UTC
Image: SpaceX
Summary
Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA on March 15, 2025 at 06:43 UTC. The launch window ran from 06:39 to 06:56 UTC. It was SpaceX's 481st launch, 32nd this year and humanity's 6,902nd orbital launch attempt. It was the 391st Falcon 9 Block 5 flight and the 30th this year. Booster B1081 flew for the 13th time and landed at Landing Zone 4. The payload was bound for Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). The tracked orbit of JinjuSat-1B, one of 65 catalogued objects, from March 28, 2025, was 516 × 521 km inclined 97.5°. 65 objects from this launch are catalogued, all of them payloads.
- Watch
- Vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX
- Booster
- B1081 · flight 13 · Return to Launch Site at Landing Zone 4 · landed35/35 landed here · 100 days after its previous flight, Starlink Group 9-14
- Mission
- Dedicated Rideshare · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)for SpX, Varda
- Milestone
- 391st Falcon 9 Block 5 flight · 30th this yearSpaceX's 481st launch32nd this yearhumanity's 6,902nd orbital launch attempt53rd orbital launch attempt this year
Flight preview
Simulate in Flight ClubOrbit: as tracked
JinjuSat-1B · NORAD 63210 · 2025-052 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 65 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
- Object ID
- 2025-052A
- Epoch
- 2025-03-28 12:08:01 UTC
- Mean motion
- 15.18308623 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.0003578
- Inclination
- 97.4516°
- Ascending node
- 342.6301°
- Arg. of perigee
- 187.7425°
- Mean anomaly
- 172.3754°
- Element set
- 999
- Rev at epoch
- 215
- B*
- 0.0010011
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 LOX Load
- T−35MProp Load
- T−16MStage 2 LOX Load
- T−7MEngine Chill
- T−1MStartup
- T−1MTank Press
- T−45SGO for Launch
- T−3SIgnition
- T−0Liftoff
- 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
Catalogued objects
65 catalogued: 65 payloads; 58 still in orbit
- JinjuSat-1B · NORAD 63210 · in orbit
- NUSHSat 1 · NORAD 63211 · in orbit
- Startical IOD-1 · NORAD 63212 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-9 · NORAD 63213 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-2 · NORAD 63214 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-8 · NORAD 63215 · in orbit
- Botsat-1 · NORAD 63216 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-7 · NORAD 63217 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-6 · NORAD 63218 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-5 · NORAD 63219 · in orbit
- Aerocube 18A · NORAD 63220 · in orbit
- Aerocube 18B · NORAD 63222 · in orbit
Show 53 more payloads
- DROID.002 · NORAD 63223 · in orbit
- W-3 · NORAD 63224 · deorbited May 14, 2025
- Tomorrow-S6 · NORAD 63225 · in orbit
- Etihad-SAT · NORAD 63226 · in orbit
- Clarity-1 · NORAD 63227 · re-entered June 10, 2026
- SpaceEye-T · NORAD 63229 · in orbit
- ION Marvelous Mathias · NORAD 63230 · in orbit
- M-SEL · NORAD 63231 · in orbit
- Sphinx · NORAD 63232 · in orbit
- LizzieSat-3 · NORAD 63233 · in orbit
- Tomorrow-S5 · NORAD 63234 · in orbit
- OTP-2 · NORAD 63235 · in orbit
- OrbAstro-TR5 · NORAD 63236 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-4 · NORAD 63237 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-1 · NORAD 63238 · in orbit
- Tevel 2-3 · NORAD 63239 · in orbit
- Al Munther · NORAD 63240 · in orbit
- HERMES Pathfinder H1 · NORAD 63242 · in orbit
- HERMES Pathfinder H2 · NORAD 63243 · in orbit
- PANDORE · NORAD 63244 · in orbit
- Buccaneer-MM · NORAD 63245 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Leia-Philip · NORAD 63246 · in orbit
- EZIE-A · NORAD 63247 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Lia-Martin · NORAD 63248 · in orbit
- EZIE-C · NORAD 63249 · in orbit
- EZIE-B · NORAD 63250 · in orbit
- UVSQ-Sat NG · NORAD 63251 · in orbit
- ARVAKER 1 · NORAD 63252 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X48 · NORAD 63253 · in orbit
- YAM-8 · NORAD 63254 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X50 · NORAD 63255 · in orbit
- FireSat0 · NORAD 63256 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X51 · NORAD 63257 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X46 · NORAD 63258 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Deloitte-1 · NORAD 63259 · in orbit
- HYVRID · NORAD 63260 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 EmersonRose · NORAD 63261 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Marache-Fran · NORAD 63262 · in orbit
- SOAP · NORAD 63263 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 TheFalconer · NORAD 63264 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Balto · NORAD 63395 · in orbit
- HERMES Pathfinder H6 · NORAD 63489 · in orbit
- HYDRA-W · NORAD 63490 · re-entered April 24, 2026
- Unicorn-2Q · NORAD 63491 · re-entered November 26, 2025
- HADES-ICM · NORAD 63492 · re-entered May 21, 2026
- HERMES Pathfinder H4 · NORAD 63833 · in orbit
- HERMES Pathfinder H5 · NORAD 63834 · in orbit
- HERMES Pathfinder H3 · NORAD 63835 · in orbit
- Unicorn-2O · NORAD 63980 · re-entered February 15, 2026
- Unicorn-2P · NORAD 63981 · re-entered March 3, 2026
- ORCA-2b · in orbit
- RAPSat-1A · in orbit
- NILA · 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
183rd launch from Space Launch Complex 4E, 9th this year · 795th from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Local pad time at liftoff: Mar 14, 11:43 PM PDT, at night
303 launches from this pad · 919 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
3 days 3 hours after the previous launch from this pad
Updates
All satellites deployed nominally.
Show 9 earlier updates
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
Questions
When did Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch?
Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launched on March 15, 2025 at 06:43 UTC. The launch window ran from 06:39 to 06:56 UTC.
Where can I watch Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)?
Coverage: SpaceX Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare); SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Transporter 13 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - March 14, 2025; Transporter-13 Mission. Watch the replay
What rocket launched Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)?
Falcon 9 Block 5, flown by SpaceX. Falcon 9 Block 5 spec sheet
Where did Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch from?
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA. Liftoff was Mar 14, 11:43 PM PDT local time at the pad.
Did the booster land?
Booster B1081 flew for the 13th time and landed at Landing Zone 4.
What orbit did Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) reach?
The tracked orbit of JinjuSat-1B, one of 65 catalogued objects, from March 28, 2025, was 516 × 521 km inclined 97.5°.
How many satellites did Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch?
65 payloads from this launch are catalogued, 58 of them still in orbit (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).