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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-15, 06:43 | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-14, 23:43 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1081-13 | | Landing | LZ-4 | | Payloads | 74 | | Customers | Multiple | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to SSO |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqyhBLJy1Cs | Spaceflight Now | none | NASASpaceflight | none | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGm6Mm1o_g | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1900796688471613495 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue48gaS7q30

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☑️ 9th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 3 days, 3:32:48 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 25th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 424th Falcon Family Booster landing, 436th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 73rd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 30th Falcon 9 mission this year, 448th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 30th SpaceX mission this year, 464th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 32nd SpaceX launch this year, 482nd SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

Transporter 13 is a dedicated rideshare mission by SpaceX. SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program provides small satellite operators with regularly scheduled, dedicated Falcon 9 rideshare missions to SSO for ESPA class payloads for as low as $300,000 per mission, which includes up to 50kg of payload mass.

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https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1900309526617714763

Targeting Friday, March 14 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Transporter-13 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E in California

SES-4, SECO-4, and nominal orbit insertion.

Final payload deployments confirmed: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1900835896611520734

Deployment of all rideshare payloads confirmed

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, stage 1 boostback burn, and fairing separation.

Hosted webcast has started. Zachary Luppen and Tyler Lionquist are hosting.

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

M-vac shutdown, nominal orbit insertion. SES-2 is scheduled for T+51 minutes.

SES-2, SECO-2, and nominal orbit insertion.

Payload deployments have begun.

SES-3, SECO-3, and nominal orbit insertion.

SES-4 is scheduled for T+02:14:31, followed by final payload deployments.