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Transporter-12 Launch Thread (sh.itjust.works)
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-01-14, 19:09 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-01-14, 11:09 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1088-2 | | Landing | LZ-4 | | Payloads | 131 | | Customers | Multiple | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to SSO |

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☑️ 2nd launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 4 days, 15:15:11 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 23rd landing on LZ-4

☑️ 400th Falcon Family Booster landing, 414th Falcon recovery attempt

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

☑️ 7th Falcon 9 mission this year, 425th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 7th SpaceX mission this year, 441st mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 7th SpaceX launch this year, 457th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

Transporter 12 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

First batch of deployments has passed.

Awaiting orbit raising burns at T+01:41:22 and T+02:15:24.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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

Satellite deployments are under way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

SECO-1, nominal park orbit.

Awaiting SES-2 at T+50:52.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Liftoff!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1879002935826485577

Our next two Falcon 9 missions are targeted to lift off starting tomorrow

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1879003113044255179

Up first, Falcon 9 will launch 131 payloads to orbit during the Transporter-12 rideshare mission from California