TRANSPORTER-7 MISSION

FALCON 9

14th April 2023

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Seventh dedicated rideshare mission with SpaceX

Mission

SpaceX’s SmallSat
Rideshare Program
Transporter - 7

Launch site

Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA

Launch Vehicle

Falcon 9

Launch Period

April 2023

21 satellites

Applications

  • Optical and SAR Earth Observation

  • Maritime Surveillance

  • ADS-B Tracking

  • Internet of Things

  • Technology Demonstration

Customers

Canada’s Space Flight Laboratory on behalf of the Norwegian Space Agency, TÜBİTAK UZAY, the Kenya Space Agency with SayariLabs and EnduroSat, ISILAUNCH on behalf of Orbital Solutions Monaco (OSM) and Laboratoire Athmosphères, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), the Stanford Student Space Initiative at Stanford University, Bronco Space at Cal Poly Pomona, UK-based OrbAstro for AstroForge, and the Colombian Air Force, Spire Global, Kongsberg NanoAvionics on behalf of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority and an undisclosed customer, Unseenlabs, GomSpace, EnduroSat on behalf of Sateliot, Plan-S and Satellogic

Main payload

51 spacecraft, including CubeSats, MicroSats, hosted payloads and orbital transfer vehicles

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Launch site

Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA

Launch Period

April 2023

Applications

  • Optical and SAR Earth Observation

  • Maritime Surveillance

  • ADS-B Tracking

  • Internet of Things

  • Technology Demonstration

Main payload

51 spacecraft, including CubeSats, MicroSats, hosted payloads and orbital transfer vehicles

Mission overview

Exolaunch flawlessly deployed 21 satellites on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 mission on April 14, 2023. Lift-off of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle occurred at 11:48pm PT and was the first Transporter mission to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. This is the 19th mission in Exolaunch’s flight heritage, bringing it to a well-rounded 290 satellites launched and taking us ever closer to the 300 satellites milestone.

Exolaunch launched a combined mass of over 550 kilograms for multiple international customers hailing from the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Norway, Turkey, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Monaco, Lithuania, Denmark, Argentina, Colombia, the UAE and Kenya. In total, Exolaunch safely delivered 16 CubeSats and 5 microsatellites carrying various Earth observation and communication payloads into a sun-synchronous orbit above an altitude of 500 km. During the flight, all customer satellites separated seamlessly from the Falcon 9 upper stage via our EXOpod and EXOpod Nova CubeSat deployers and CarboNIX microsatellite separation systems.

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