SpaceXFalcon 9 Block 5Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Launched
March 30, 2026 · 11:02 UTC
Image: SpaceX
Summary
Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA on March 30, 2026 at 11:02 UTC. The launch window ran from 10:19 to 11:16 UTC. It was SpaceX's 658th launch, 39th this year and humanity's 7,244th orbital launch attempt. It was the 565th Falcon 9 Block 5 flight and the 39th this year. Booster B1093 flew for the 12th time and landed at Of Course I Still Love You. The payload was bound for Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). The tracked orbit of JACK-002, one of 94 catalogued objects, from April 14, 2026, was 515 × 520 km inclined 97.5°. 94 objects from this launch are catalogued, all of them payloads.
- Watch
- Vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX
- Booster
- B1093 · flight 12 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship at Of Course I Still Love You · landed210/218 landed here · 32 days after its previous flight, Starlink Group 17-26 · 600 km downrange
- Mission
- Dedicated Rideshare · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)for SpX
- Milestone
- 565th Falcon 9 Block 5 flight · 39th this yearSpaceX's 658th launch39th this yearhumanity's 7,244th orbital launch attempt71st orbital launch attempt this year
Flight preview
Simulate in Flight ClubOrbit: as tracked
JACK-002 · NORAD 68417 · 2026-067 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 94 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
- Object ID
- 2026-067B
- Epoch
- 2026-04-14 03:07:28 UTC
- Mean motion
- 15.18589786 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.0003724
- Inclination
- 97.4513°
- Ascending node
- 63.5748°
- Arg. of perigee
- 116.5386°
- Mean anomaly
- 243.623°
- Element set
- 999
- Rev at epoch
- 222
- B*
- 0.00018963
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+1M7SMax-Q
- T+2M27SMECO
- T+2M30SStage 2 Separation
- T+2M38SSES-1
- T+3M7SFairing Separation
- T+6M17SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+6M41SEntry Burn Shutdown
- T+8M9SStage 1 Landing Burn
- T+8M19SSECO-1
- T+8M33SStage 1 Landing
- T+51M40SSES-2
- T+51M44SSECO-2
- T+54M39SPayload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+1H10M12SPayload Deployment Sequence End
- T+1H41M39SSES-3
- T+1H41M41SSECO-3
- T+2H13M5SSECO-4
- T+2H13M5SSES-4
- T+2H16M11SPayload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+2H31M56SPayload Deployment Sequence End
Catalogued objects
94 catalogued: 94 payloads; 93 still in orbit
- Peaksat · NORAD 68416 · in orbit
- JACK-002 · NORAD 68417 · in orbit
- Optisat · NORAD 68418 · in orbit
- ARQSAT-1 · NORAD 68419 · in orbit
- ERMIS 2 · NORAD 68420 · in orbit
- Vireon 2 · NORAD 68421 · in orbit
- BRO 19 · NORAD 68422 · in orbit
- SPOQC · NORAD 68423 · in orbit
- SpaceVan-002 · NORAD 68424 · in orbit
- ERMIS 3 · NORAD 68425 · in orbit
- Emisar · NORAD 68427 · in orbit
- Out Of The Box · NORAD 68428 · in orbit
Show 82 more payloads
- TROOP-F3 · NORAD 68429 · in orbit
- Vega · NORAD 68430 · in orbit
- Disco 2 · NORAD 68431 · in orbit
- Jane Goodall · NORAD 68432 · in orbit
- T.MICROSAT-2 · NORAD 68433 · in orbit
- Vireon 1 · NORAD 68434 · in orbit
- ION SCV Astounding Alexandra · NORAD 68435 · in orbit
- Hawk 14B · NORAD 68436 · in orbit
- Aiglonsat-1 · NORAD 68437 · in orbit
- Hawk 14C · NORAD 68441 · in orbit
- Branca Marques · NORAD 68442 · in orbit
- DB-WALI-WMU · NORAD 68443 · in orbit
- SharjahSat-2 · NORAD 68444 · in orbit
- DB-SKYFORGE CORE-TU · NORAD 68445 · in orbit
- HADES-SA · NORAD 68446 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS1-Eaglet-2-14 · NORAD 68447 · in orbit
- Hawk 14A · NORAD 68448 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS1-Eaglet-2-9 · NORAD 68449 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS1-Eaglet-2-13 · NORAD 68450 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS1-Eaglet-2-10 · NORAD 68451 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS1-Eaglet-2-16 · NORAD 68452 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS1-Eaglet-2-11 · NORAD 68453 · in orbit
- AISSAT-4 · NORAD 68454 · in orbit
- DB-CHARMS-ND · NORAD 68455 · in orbit
- Parus-6U1 · NORAD 68456 · in orbit
- SAL-E · NORAD 68458 · in orbit
- DB-GLOBE MISSION EARTH-UT · NORAD 68459 · in orbit
- COSMO · NORAD 68460 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS1-Eaglet-2-12 · NORAD 68461 · in orbit
- IRIDE-MS1-Eaglet-2-15 · NORAD 68462 · in orbit
- GARAI B · NORAD 68463 · in orbit
- FGN-100-D3 · NORAD 68464 · in orbit
- Hotsat-2 · NORAD 68465 · in orbit
- DB-PRECISIONFLIGHTWORKSP · NORAD 68466 · in orbit
- Phobos · NORAD 68467 · in orbit
- DB-BECON-2-VU · NORAD 68468 · in orbit
- W-6 · NORAD 68469 · deorbited May 19, 2026
- Luna-2 · NORAD 68470 · in orbit
- Lemur-2-Deloitte-3 · NORAD 68471 · in orbit
- Flylab-1 · NORAD 68472 · in orbit
- Vigoride-7 · NORAD 68473 · in orbit
- Black Kite 2 · NORAD 68474 · in orbit
- Unicorn-2S · NORAD 68475 · in orbit
- Lemur-2-Julia-Joel · NORAD 68476 · in orbit
- Unicorn-2R · NORAD 68477 · in orbit
- FossaSat 2E-25 · NORAD 68478 · in orbit
- Lemur-2-Peggy-2004 · NORAD 68479 · in orbit
- Lemur-2-Irina · NORAD 68480 · in orbit
- Toro-3 · NORAD 68481 · in orbit
- Sejong-3 · NORAD 68482 · in orbit
- Lemur-2-Clara · NORAD 68483 · in orbit
- Vindler 2.0.2 · NORAD 68484 · in orbit
- Capella 20 · NORAD 68485 · in orbit
- Vindler 2.0.3 · NORAD 68486 · in orbit
- AE1a · NORAD 68487 · in orbit
- Vindler 2.0.1 · NORAD 68488 · in orbit
- Lemur-2 Carrollemo · NORAD 68489 · in orbit
- Mimir-1 · NORAD 68490 · in orbit
- Lemur-2-Deloitte-2 · NORAD 68491 · in orbit
- Lemur-2-Emarchia · NORAD 68492 · in orbit
- Lemur-2-Polo-11 · NORAD 68493 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X71 · NORAD 68494 · in orbit
- Gravitas · NORAD 68495 · in orbit
- CA-01 · NORAD 68496 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X75 · NORAD 68497 · in orbit
- IO-1 · NORAD 68498 · in orbit
- SERT3 · NORAD 68499 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X74 · NORAD 68500 · in orbit
- N1-Atlas · NORAD 68501 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X76 · NORAD 68502 · in orbit
- Flylab-2 · NORAD 68503 · in orbit
- ICEYE-X72 · NORAD 68504 · in orbit
- GEMS2-Amethyst · NORAD 68505 · in orbit
- AEPEX · NORAD 68506 · in orbit
- Camoes · NORAD 68507 · in orbit
- MARS-1A · NORAD 68830 · in orbit
- Bessa · NORAD 68836 · in orbit
- TES-23 · in orbit
- ERMIS 1 · in orbit
- Ghost Rider · in orbit
- Harbinger · in orbit
- Decimalsat-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.
News
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Pad
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
257th launch from Space Launch Complex 4E, 19th this year · 872nd from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Local pad time at liftoff: Mar 30, 4:02 AM PDT, at night
303 launches from this pad · 919 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
3 days 11 hours after the previous launch from this pad
Updates
All payloads successfully deployed.
Show 9 earlier updates
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
Questions
When did Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch?
Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launched on March 30, 2026 at 11:02 UTC. The launch window ran from 10:19 to 11:16 UTC.
Where can I watch Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)?
Coverage: SpaceX Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare); Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches over 100 rideshare payloads from Vandenberg in California; Transporter-16 Mission. Watch the replay
What rocket launched Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)?
Falcon 9 Block 5, flown by SpaceX. Falcon 9 Block 5 spec sheet
Where did Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch from?
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA. Liftoff was Mar 30, 4:02 AM PDT local time at the pad.
Did the booster land?
Booster B1093 flew for the 12th time and landed at Of Course I Still Love You.
What orbit did Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) reach?
The tracked orbit of JACK-002, one of 94 catalogued objects, from April 14, 2026, was 515 × 520 km inclined 97.5°.
How many satellites did Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) launch?
94 payloads from this launch are catalogued, 93 of them still in orbit (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).