SpaceX Deploys Fresh Rideshare Mission to Orbit

(MENAFN) U.S.-based private aerospace firm SpaceX deployed a fresh rideshare payload to orbit on Friday.

The operation, designated Transporter-15, blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 10:44 a.m. Pacific Time (1844 GMT) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, SpaceX confirmed.

After the rocket’s stages separated, the first-stage booster executed a successful landing on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship positioned in the Pacific Ocean. This marked the booster’s 30th mission, the company reported.

The flight carried 140 payloads into space, comprising cubesats, microsats, hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles transporting 13 additional payloads scheduled for later deployment, the company stated.

Every payload aboard was bound for sun-synchronous orbit, SpaceX added.

On X, SpaceX announced that its rideshare program has now transported more than 1,400 payloads to orbit through both dedicated rideshare launches and other shared-flight arrangements.

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