
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
Teen drug use remains low, but survey finds small rise in heroin and cocaine use - 2
Mussolini's summer villa on Adriatic coast sold for €1.2 million - 3
From Representative to Business visionary: Private issue Victories - 4
1st-ever disease gene fix, Alzheimer's blood test: 7 medical breakthroughs in 2025 - 5
Climbing Mount Everest: An Individual Victory
I'm 18 and founded an AI startup. I have to wake up at 3 a.m. to work on it before school, but it's worth every sleepless night.
Malaysia To Revive Search for Missing Flight MH370
They died 'doing what they loved': The stories of workers in their 80s who died on the job
Artemis 2 astronauts — now halfway to the moon — report 'burning smell' from toilet, but everything's fine
Far-right German youth group delegates seek deportations, remigration
Top Music and Dance Celebration: Which One Gets You Going?
Eurasian cargo hub expands to capture Europe-Asia freight flows
Key Caper d: A Survey of \Procedure and Tomfoolery Released\ Tabletop game
Curl Up With Some Hot Chocolate And Watch Mighty Car Mods Explore Japan In A Honda City Turbo II













