On May 3, Exolaunch successfully deployed 41 customer satellites, out of 45 satellites, on SpaceX's CAS500-2 rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Lift-off occurred from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:00 am CET. This 47th mission exemplifies efficient, cost-effective access to space leveraging a decade of expertise and flight-proven deployment technology.

CAS500-2 carried 20 microsatellites and 21 CubeSats for more than 20 commercial, institutional and government customers worldwide. With the completion of CAS500-2, Exolaunch expands launch access beyond Transporter and Bandwagon programs for global satellite operators, and successfully qualifies its new microsat separation ring CarboNIX NEO 24”.

Exolaunch provided end-to-end launch mission management, including launch capacity procurement with Falcon 9, coordination of all contractual and technical deliverables, logistics and customs clearance services, launch campaign operations and satellite integration with the launch vehicle at Vandenberg Space Force Base, flight-proven deployment technologies and satellite deployment into the target orbit, to a variety of new and existing customers on this mission. Exolaunch manifested the following spacecraft on the CAS500-2 mission:

• Two ICEYE satellites for ICEYE (Finland)

• Eycore-1 for Eycore (Poland)

• JEN-1 for OrbAstro (UK)

• BSLT-3 for Basalt Technologies Corp (USA)

• Gemini-Pollux for National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)

• NuLink-1 and NuLink-2 for NuSpace (Singapore)

• SNAPPY for Wichita State University (USA)

• FrontierSat for University of Calgary (Canada)

• Raven for TALOS (Germany)

• BRO-21 for Unseenlabs (France)

• PEARL-1A AND PEARL-1B for National Central University Taiwan and Foxconn (Taiwan)

• Balkan-2 for EnduroSat (Bulgaria)

• BusanSat for Nara Space (South Korea)

• HSD-HELIOS and HSD-HELIOS for EMTECH (Greece)

• FOREST-16, FOREST-17, FOREST-18 and FOREST-19 for OroraTech (Germany)

• QUBE-II for the QUBE-II consortium (OHB System AG, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Center for Telematics (ZFT) Würzburg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) (Germany) via Kongsberg NanoAvionics (Lithuania)

• HYDRA-3 for Aistech Space (Spain) via EnduroSat (Bulgaria)

Exolaunch provided satellite deployment and integration services for the following satellites:

• JACKAL AUTONOMOUS ORBITAL VEHICLE for True Anomaly (USA)

• Six LOFT-EARTHDAILY satellites for Loft Orbital (USA) and EarthDaily (Canada)

• Three PELICAN satellites for Planet (USA)

• Seven HEO satellites for Argotec (Italy)

This was the 47th mission in the company's flight heritage.

• Mission

  CAS500-2

• Launch vehicle

  Falcon 9

• Launch site

  Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA

• Launch date

  May 3, 2026