
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
Trial of pro-Palestine activist begins - 2
Creative Style: 10 Architects Reclassifying the Business - 3
Illegal entries into Germany halve over two years, border police say - 4
Father and son spending Christmas together after health scares - 5
It Looks Like a Tiny, Fluffy Dragon, But It's Really a Bird. Meet the Great Eared Nightjar
Scientists sent a menstrual cup to space. This is how it went
IDF destroys Hezbollah rocket launcher used in large rocket salvo towards Haifa, Galilee
The Best Traditional Music Arrangers in History
BHP liable for 2015 Brazil mine disaster: UK court
April's full moon decides the date of Easter — here's how it works
Red Crescent: More than 100,000 civilian structures damaged in Iran
Winter storm headed for Midwest to Northeast. Here's how much snow to expect.
Carina Nebula shines with white-blue stars | Space photo of the day for Jan. 5, 2026
Is relief in sight? Flu season still brutal but cases are declining.













