Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 13

Status

Success

Transporter 13

Launch Time
Sat Mar 15, 2025 06:43 UTC

SpaceX's fastest turnaround of a booster landing zone to date, with B1081 landing at LZ-4 only 3 days and around 3 hours after B1088, supporting SPHEREx & PUNCH, completed its landing.

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Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5

Image Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX

Status: Active

Price: $69.75 million

Liftoff Thrust: 7,607 kN

Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg

Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg

Stages: 2

Strap-ons: 0

Rocket Height: 70.0 m

Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m

Fairing Height: 13.0 m

Details

Vehicles

Landing Zone 4

B1081

Flight #13

100 day turnaround

436th Falcon recovery attempt

421st successful Falcon recovery

4th consecutive successful Falcon recovery

78th consecutive successful Falcon landing

Manifest

Mission Details

Transporter 13

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.

Payloads: 74

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

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Stats

2025

52nd orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

464th mission

30th mission of 2025

457th successful mission

94th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

448th mission

30th mission of 2025

444th successful mission

93rd consecutive successful mission