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SpaceX has just launched a large fleet of satellites to the last border.
A Falcon 9 -rocket with 70 payloads for a variety of customers today (23 June) at 5:25 pm EDT (2125 GMT; 2:25 pm California Time) from California in the Vandenberg Space Force Base, on a Rideshare mission known as Transporter 14.
Transporter 14 is the increase of microsats, cubesats and return capsules, including one that carries cremated remains and human DNA on a memorial mission.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 -rocket with 70 different loads of lifts Van Vandenberg Space Force Base in Florida on Monday, June 23, 2025. | Credit: SpaceX
The first phase of the Falcon 9 came back to earth today, as planned and got around 8.5 minutes after the launch on the SpaceX -Drone ship “of course I still love you” in the Pacific Ocean.
It was the 26th launch and landing for this specific booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. This comes close to the company’s reusability record, currently on 28 flights.
In the meantime, the upper stage of the rocket remained its way to the Low Earth track, where it has a lot of work to do: it will use the menagerie of loads over a period of almost two hours that starts about 54 minutes after the launch.
The first phase of a SpaceX Falcon 9 -rocket is vertically on the Droneship “Of course I still love you” in the Pacific on Monday, June 23, 2025. | Credit: SpaceX
These payloads include private-earth-perishable satellites, such as Capella Space’s Capella-17 Synthetic Aperture Radar Craft, and Starfish Space’s Otter Pup 2, who will try to perform the very first commercial docking in Leo later this year.
Transporter 14 also carries the fourth return capsule for California Company Varda Space, which works on the production of medicines and other goods in space and to return them to the earth.
Also on board the upper stage of Falcon 9, the new NYX reusable spacecraft of the Exploration Company, which flies a memorial mission in collaboration with the SpaceBurial Company Celestis.
NYX – The final charge to be used today – carries cremated remains and/or DNA of around 150 people. If everything goes according to plan, the spacecraft will circle the earth two or three times and then restored.
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As the name suggests, Transporter 14 is the 14th mission in SpaceX’s Rideshare series. The first of this, Transporter 1 in January 2021, established a record with one launch and sent no fewer than 143 satellites to a job.
The company also operates another Rideshare program called Bandwagon, which has so far has three missions under the belt.
