Transporter-1 is the first dedicated rideshare mission for SpaceX's overall smallsat rideshare program, which also provides secondary payload opportunities on Starlink and other launches. 24 on the Transporter-1 dedicated rideshare mission (image credit: SpaceX) The 143 satellites on what SpaceX called the Transporter-1 mission were the most deployed on a single launch, breaking the record of 104 set by an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission in February 2017.įigure 1: A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off Jan. The rocket's second stage started deploying satellites 59 minutes after liftoff into sun-synchronous orbits, a process that took more than a half-hour to complete.
The first stage, making its fifth launch after being previously used for NASA and commercial launches, landed on a droneship off the northern coast of Cuba. Eastern), a launch delayed one day by poor weather. Launch: The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 15:00 UTC (10 a.m. On Janu(Sunday), a SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 vehicle of the Starlink constellation launched 143 small satellites for a wide range of customers on the company's first dedicated rideshare mission, a service that poses a competitive threat to emerging small launch vehicles. Launchers and Propulsion Transporter-1 - First Rideshare mission of SpaceX
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