On October 20, Exolaunch successfully deployed 22 customer satellites on SpaceX's Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, completing its 51st mission since the company's founding and surpassing 900 satellites deployed to date.

Bandwagon-5 carried 19 microsatellites and three cubesats for both new and returning commercial, institutional and government customers worldwide. With the completion of Bandwagon-5, Exolaunch has now deployed 912 satellites including 257 satellites across nine missions in 2026 alone.

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 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, flight-proven deployment technologies and satellite deployment into its target orbit, to a variety of new and existing customers on this mission. Exolaunch manifested the following spacecraft on the Bandwagon-5 mission:

• Six satellites for Xona (USA)

• Four satellites for Iceye (Finland)

• Three satellites for Hawkeye 360 (USA)

• Sirius-A and Sirius-B for ST Engineering (Singapore)

• Impulse 4 for Impulse Space (USA)

• FOSSASAT-2E27 for Fossa Systems (Spain)

• T.MicroSat-3 and T.MicroSat-4 for Tron Future Tech (Taiwan)

In addition, Exolaunch provided deployment and integration services for the following satellites:

• Pelican-12 for Planet Labs (USA)

• FRG-100D4 for Fergani (Turkey)

• And more.

• Mission

  Bandwagon-5

• Launch vehicle

  Falcon 9

• Launch site

  Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA

• Launch date

  October 20, 2026