SuccessOrbital launch
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
SpaceX
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
Launched Oct 1, 2026, 2:32 PM ET
Reached orbit (Sun-Synchronous Orbit). Booster B1082 landed on LZ-4.
Launch Library gives this time to the second.
STATUS
Launch Successful. The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
SCHEDULE HISTORY
Tracked since Sep 23. The day has not moved later; the changes below are to the time or the status.
- Sep 23First recorded: Oct 1, 2026, 2:08 PM ET · TBC
- Sep 25Oct 1, 2026, 2:18 PM ET · Go
- Oct 1Oct 1, 2026, 2:32 PM ET · In Flight
- Oct 1Oct 1, 2026, 2:32 PM ET · Success
MISSION
- Mission
- Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
- Type
- Dedicated Rideshare
- Orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
ROCKET AND PROVIDER
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Provider
- SpaceX (commercial)
- On SpaceDew
- SpaceX
- Window
- Oct 1, 2026, 2:18 PM ET to Oct 1, 2026, 3:16 PM ET
BOOSTER
- Core
- B1082, on its 25th flight, 36 days after its last. Landed: Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4), return to launch site.
Source: Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs), record updated Oct 16, 2026, 8:02 AM ET. Times are US Eastern. Every launch SpaceDew tracks