
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
‘Raising 10 red flags’: Is Israel’s army exhausted? - 2
Knesset FADC extends emergency draft for 280,000 IDF reservists until January 1 - 3
Former ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Pro Survives Plane Crash at LaGuardia That Left 2 Pilots Dead - 4
These four astronauts could soon travel farther from Earth than anyone has gone before - 5
One perk to marrying Richard Marx later in life? 'We don't have time' for stupid arguments, says Daisy Fuentes.
The 10 Most Noteworthy Games in History
Figure out How to Forestall Tooth Staining
Judge sets $60K bond for Florida congresswoman accused of stealing $5M in COVID-19 funds
Pick Your Favored kind of sandwich
Brilliant and Gleaming: Excellence and Skincare Practices
Figure out How to Explore Your Direction to the Best Dental Embed Trained professional: A Far reaching Manual
Gulf aluminum output tumbles on Iran war
Exploring the Gig Economy: Illustrations from Consultants
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen













