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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed for the 200th time after launching the Transporter-8 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The landing was captured on video and shows the booster coming down at Vandenberg's Landing Zone-4. The Falcon 9 first pulled off a rocket landing during an orbital mission in December 2015.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying 72 CubeSats, microsatellites, hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles on the Transporter 8 rideshare mission.
SpaceX is set to launch the Transporter-8 rideshare mission on June 12, 2023, carrying 72 payloads of varying sizes and purposes into a Sun-synchronous orbit. The booster for Transporter-8, B1071-9, is making its ninth flight and will attempt to land at LZ-4, marking the 200th recovery of a Falcon booster and the 126th consecutive successful landing since SpaceX last lost a booster. The payloads range from picosatellites to several hundred-kilogram satellites, and the majority will be deployed into a Sun-synchronous orbit. This will be the eighth dedicated rideshare mission organized by SpaceX, with one more Transporter mission scheduled for 2023.
SpaceX is set to launch its Transporter-8 mission, carrying 72 small satellites, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This will be the company's second launch of the day, following the deployment of 52 Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station earlier. The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage is expected to return to Earth for a vertical touchdown at Vandenberg, while the upper stage will continue to deploy the payloads over a 24-minute span. This is SpaceX's eighth small-satellite "rideshare" mission and its third such flight of 2023.
SpaceX is set to launch its Transporter-8 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 72 payloads, including CubeSats, MicroSats, a re-entry capsule, and orbital transfer vehicles. Liftoff is scheduled for Monday afternoon, with a backup launch opportunity on Tuesday. The first-stage booster will return to the base to land less than eight minutes after liftoff, potentially causing sonic booms. This will be the eighth dedicated smallsat rideshare mission for SpaceX and the second from the West Coast. A live broadcast of the mission can be found on the SpaceX website or its YouTube channel.