SpaceX will launch more than 100 satellites to orbit from California early Monday morning (March 30), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n
A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California on Monday during a 57-minute window that opens at 6:20 a.m. EDT (1020 GMT; 3:20 a.m. local California time).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The launch will kick off SpaceX’s Transporter-16 rideshare mission. You can watch it live via SpaceX<\/a>, beginning about 15 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n Article continues below <\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n As its name suggests, Transporter-16 will be the 16th mission of SpaceX<\/a>‘s Transporter rideshare series. The company also operates another rideshare program called Bandwagon, which has four launches under its belt so far.<\/p>\n Together, these two programs have lofted a total of more than 1,600 payloads to orbit \u2014 including 143 on Transporter-1<\/a> in January 2021, which still holds the single-launch record.<\/p>\n Transporter-16 will loft 119 payloads, “including cubesats<\/a>, microsats, hosted payloads, a reentry vehicle, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying eight of those payloads to be deployed at a later time,” SpaceX wrote in a mission description<\/a>.<\/p>\n If all goes to plan on Monday morning, the Falcon 9’s first stage will land about 8.5 minutes after launch on the SpaceX droneship “Of Course I Still Love You,” which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean. It will be the 12th launch and landing for this particular booster, according to the mission description.<\/p>\n