
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.
SpaceX will launch more than 100 satellites to orbit from California early Monday morning (March 30), and you can watch the action live.
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday during a 57-minute window that opens at 6:20 a.m. EDT (1020 GMT; 3:20 a.m. local California time).
The launch will kick off SpaceX's Transporter-16 rideshare mission. You can watch it live via SpaceX, beginning about 15 minutes before liftoff.
As its name suggests, Transporter-16 will be the 16th mission of SpaceX's Transporter rideshare series. The company also operates another rideshare program called Bandwagon, which has four launches under its belt so far.
Together, these two programs have lofted a total of more than 1,600 payloads to orbit — including 143 on Transporter-1 in January 2021, which still holds the single-launch record.
Transporter-16 will loft 119 payloads, "including cubesats, microsats, hosted payloads, a reentry vehicle, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying eight of those payloads to be deployed at a later time," SpaceX wrote in a mission description.
If all goes to plan on Monday morning, the Falcon 9's first stage will land about 8.5 minutes after launch on the SpaceX droneship "Of Course I Still Love You," which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean. It will be the 12th launch and landing for this particular booster, according to the mission description.
The rocket's upper stage, meanwhile, will haul the 119 payloads to low Earth orbit, where they'll be deployed starting about 55 minutes after liftoff.
latest_posts
- 1
Astronomer captures 2 meteors slamming into the moon (video) - 2
All that You Really want to Be aware of Dental Inserts Facilities - 3
Exclusive new photos from 'Michael' biopic show Jaafar Jackson as King of Pop - 4
Colorado residents face earliest water restrictions ever — a harbinger of worse to come - 5
Clones of Stumpy, Washington D.C.'s beloved cherry blossom tree, have flowered for the first time
Novartis eyes more bolt-on acquisitions, CEO says
Vote In favor of Your Number one Game Control center
PHOTO ESSAY: Summer camp for kids with autoimmune diseases
Dozens injured in Russia after train crashes, overturns
4 Family SUVs: Joining Solace and Style
FDA proposes use of sunscreen ingredient popular in other countries
Instructions to Boost Your True capacity with a Brain research Degree
James Webb Space Telescope discovers a lemon-shaped exoplanet unlike anything seen before: 'What the heck is this?'
Step by step instructions to Involve Compact disc Rates for Magnanimous Giving













