CAS Space

First test launch and mission of CAS Space’s Kinetica-2 rocket, with 3 spacecraft on board:

* New March 02/Xinzhengcheng 02 (Qingzhou Prototype Spacecraft)
* New March 01/Xinzhengcheng 01 in orbit experiment laboratory
* TS-01

Kinetica 2 | Demo Flight (Qingzhou Prototype Spacecraft)

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Launch Area 140

Kinetica 2

SpaceX

Of Course I Still Love You

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

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 16 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)

Vandenberg SFB

Space Launch Complex 4E

Falcon 9 Block 5

Launch Date:  March 30, 2025
Launch Time: 4:02 a.m. PDT, 1102 UTC, 13:02 CEST
Launch Window: Open until 4:16 a.m. PDT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA
Targeted Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Launch Inclination: South 
Launch Status: Nominal Orbit Insertion, 2nd stage landed successfully on the droneship, all payloads have been deployed successfully. 

Mission: Transporter 16
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster B-1093) 
Flight for the Booster: 12
Previous Flights of the Booster: 11 - SDA T1TL-B, SDA T1TL-C, and nine Starlink missions
Booster Landing: Droneship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)

Price: $69,75 million (without payload)
Diameter: 3,7 m
Height: 70 m
Payload to Orbit: 22,800 LEO / 8,300 GTO
Lift-Off Thrust: 7,60...

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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Transporter 16 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - March 30, 2026

Unofficial Re-stream

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from California carrying 119 payloads as part of its smallsat rideshare program called Transporter. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for Monday, March 30, at 4:02 a.m. PDT (7:02 a.m. EDT / 1102 UTC).

The mission will use the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1093, which is making its 12th flight. About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the booster will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.

The Transporter 16 mission will follow a southerly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg.

Spaceflight Now will have live coverage starting about 30 minutes prior to launch.

Videos like this are made possible by the sup...

Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches over 100 rideshare payloads from Vandenberg in California

Unofficial Webcast

Transporter-16 Mission

Official Webcast

Just Read the Instructions

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-44

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Space Launch Complex 40

Starlink Mission

CASC

Long March 2C | Unknown Payload

Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603)

Long March 2C

Avio S.p.A

Vega-C | PLATiNO 1

Guiana Space Centre

Ariane Launch Area 1

Vega-C

Russian Space Forces

Note: Payload identity uncertain.

Meridian is a series of communications satellite for military and civilian use.

Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M | Meridian-M No.21L

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

43/3 (43L)

Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M

Gregory R. Wiseman

Victor J. Glover

Jeremy Hansen

Christina Koch

NASA

Artemis II is the first crewed mission as part of the Artemis program. Artemis II will send a crew of 4 - 3 Americans and 1 Canadian around the moon and return them back to Earth.

The mission will test the core systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft including the critical life support system, among other systems which could not be tested during Artemis I due to the lack of crew onboard.

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SLS Block 1 | Artemis II

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Complex 39B

Orion

SLS Block 1

We're sending astronauts around the Moon for the first time in 50 years. Come watch with us.

NASA's Artemis II mission is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1. The two-hour launch window starts at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 UTC). 

Four astronauts — three from NASA and one from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) — make up the Artemis II crew:
- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander
- NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot
- NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist
- Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist

After launching into space atop NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the crew will journey around the Moon and back in their Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, on an approximately 10-...

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will send NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor […]

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon (Official Broadcast)

Space Pioneer

First test launch of Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-3 rocket. Reports indicate this launch may carry a batch of satellites for the SpaceSail/G60/Qianfan LEO communication satellites constellation.

Tianlong-3 | Demo Flight

Tianlong-3 Launch Pad

Tianlong-3

RKK Energiya

Demonstration Flight for Russia's new Soyuz-5 launch vehicle, with a mass simulator on board. Details TBD.

Soyuz-5 | Demo Flight

Baikonur Cosmodrome

45/1

Soyuz-5

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-58

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-35

Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

29 satellites are carried on this launch.

Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-05)

Space Launch Complex 41

Atlas V 551

ULA's Atlas V rocket will deliver another batch of satellites into low Earth orbit for Amazon Leo, the broadband constellation. Amazon Leo's mission is to provide fast, reliable internet to customers around the world, including those in unserved and underserved communities, using a network of more than 3,000 LEO satellites. The window opens at 3:53 a.m. EDT. 

GO Atlas! GO Centaur! GO Leo 5!

Rocket Launch: Amazon Leo 5

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

STP-S29A is a mission under the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Test Program (STP) that will deliver technology demonstrations to orbit and contribute to future space system development, with this launch delivering up to 200 kg of STP cubesats to Low Earth Orbit.

The main payload will be STPSat-7, an ESPA class satellite based on the Aegis Aerospace M-1 satellite bus used on the STPSat-4 mission for hosting research and technology demonstration payloads for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the payload is U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) instrument, used to detect and characterize lethal non-trackable orbital debris with lasers in orbit.

Minotaur IV | STP-S29A

Space Launch Complex 8

Minotaur IV

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-21

Long March 8 | Unknown Payload

Wenchang Space Launch Site

Commercial LC-1

Long March 8

Landing Zone 40

This is the 24th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 23rd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-24

Joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the interaction between Earth’s protective shield – the magnetosphere – and the supersonic solar wind.

Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)

Blue Origin

Jacklyn

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched.

This launch will feature 1 satellite, BlueBird 7/BlueBird Block 2 FM2.

New Glenn | BlueBird Block 2 #2

Launch Complex 36A

New Glenn

Rocket Lab

JAXA-manifested rideshare of eight separate spacecraft that includes educational small sats, an ocean monitoring satellite, a demonstration satellite for ultra-small multispectral cameras, and a deployable antenna that can be packed tightly using origami folding techniques and unfurled to 25 times its size.

The satellites were originally planned to launch with RAISE-4 on a Japanese Epsilon-S rocket, but the Epsilon-S was heavily delayed due to test firing failures.

The 8 satellites are:

* MAGNARO-II
* KOSEN-2R
* WASEDA-SAT-ZERO-II
* FSI-SAT2
* OrigamiSat-2
* Mono-Nikko
* ARICA-2
* PRELUDE

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Electron | Kakushin Rising (JAXA Rideshare)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1

Unknown Pad

Electron

Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-06)

ROSCOSMOS

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-34 (95P)

31/6

Soyuz 2.1a

Arianespace

Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude.

32 satellites are carried on this launch.

Ariane 64 | Amazon Leo (LE-02)

Ariane Launch Area 4

Ariane 64

Isar Aerospace

Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle. This launch will carry 5 cubesats and 1 non-separable experiment as part of European Space Agency (ESA)'s “Boost!” program:

* CyBEEsat (TU Berlin)
* TriSat-S (University of Maribor)
* Platform 6 (EnduroSat)
* FramSat-1 (NTNU)
* SpaceTeamSat1 (TU Wien Space Team)
* Let It Go (Dcubed, non-separable experiment)

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Spectrum | Onward and Upward

Andøya Spaceport

Orbital Launch Pad

Spectrum

Mission Name: 'Onward and Upward'

Launch Date: Updates via https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview

Launch site: Andøya Space

The second flight of our ‘Spectrum’ launch vehicle marks a significant milestone serving as both the vehicle’s qualification mission and its first flight carrying payload.

"Onward and Upward" symbolizes our relentless drive for progress and continuous improvement, reflecting our determination to build upon the successes and lessons learned from our inaugural test flight.

The livestream is produced in collaboration with the @NASASpaceflight team.

More information on the Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ here: https://isaraerospace.com/mission-2

Scrub: "Onward and Upward" Mission of Isar Aerospace

Mission Name: 'Onward and Upward'

Launch Date: Updates via https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview

Launch site: Andøya Space

The second flight of Isar's ‘Spectrum’ launch vehicle marks a significant milestone serving as both the vehicle’s qualification mission and its first flight carrying payload.

"Onward and Upward" symbolizes Isar's relentless drive for progress and continuous improvement, reflecting their determination to build upon the successes and lessons learned from our inaugural test flight.

NSF/NASASpaceflight LLC is providing live stream production services for Isar Aerospace's second flight of Spectrum.

More information on the Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ here: https://isaraerospace.com/mission-2

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[Scrub] Isar Aerospace Launches the "Onward and Upward" Mission

Skyroot Aerospace

First launch of Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-I launch vehicle, with several cubesats on board. Payload identities TBD.

Vikram-I | Demo Flight

Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad

Vikram-I

12th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. Maiden Flight of Starship V3

Rocket Launches Today