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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Transporter 13 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - March 14, 2025

Launch Date: March 14, 2024 (PDT) Launch Time: 11:43 p.m. PT - March 15, 0643 UTC, 07:43 CET Launch Window: Opens at 11:39 p.m. PDT for 17 minutes Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, Ca...

Transporter-13 Mission

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Transporter 13 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

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Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Dedicated Rideshare

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1081 - Landing Zone 4

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Telemetry

Launch trajectory and telemetry simulations provided by Flight Club - a rocket launch simulator and orbital trajectory visualiser for all things space!

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • March 15, 2025, 9:06 a.m.

All satellites deployed nominally.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 15, 2025, 6:43 a.m.

Liftoff.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 15, 2025, 12:59 a.m.

New T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 14, 2025, 5:51 a.m.

T-0 is accurate to the second.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 14, 2025, 2:10 a.m.

GO for launch.


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1081

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: August 26, 2023
Last Flight: December 2, 2025
Flights: 20
Landings Attempted: 20
Landings Successful: 20
Previous B1081 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 booster B1081 has returned to the launch site at LZ-4 after its 13th flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 4.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 598 Failures: 15 Pending: 120

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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