Smallsat Rideshare Missions
- The information on this page is partially based on unofficial sources and educated guesses and is subject to change
- Dates are in UTC
- Clicking the date leads to the source of that information
- This list might be incomplete
Relevant links:
- Official website for SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare program
- SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare User’s Guide
- Complete SpaceX launch manifest
Changelog:
- May 19, 2022 – STAR VIBE moved to Transporter-6
- May 18, 2022 – 5 Spire Global sats to launch on Transporter-5
- May 16, 2022 – Added payloads that will fly with Launcher Orbit SN1 on Transporter-6
- May 13, 2022 – BRONCOSAT-1 and CENTAURI-5 to launch on Transporter-5
- May 10, 2022 – DemoSat to launch on Transporter-7
- May 5, 2022 – Updated payloads on Momentus VR-5 on Transporter-6; ProtoMéthée-1 might launch on Transporter-9
- May 4, 2022 – Geometric-1 payloads moved to Transporter-6
- Apr 27, 2022 – Updated payloads on Momentus VR-3 on Transporter-5
Announced payloads or customers without an assigned mission
- Additional XR satellite(s)
- Satellogic (additional satellites on both Transporter and Starlink missions)
- Three more La Jument satellites for Lockheed in 2022
- VariSat (up to 24 sats between 2021 and 2023 on SSO missions)
- Sen EarthTV (several sats in 2022)
- Lunasonde (several Gossamer sats on mutiple launches in 2022 with Exolaunch)
- OrbAstro (satellites on three launches in 2022)
- Lemur (several satellites on missions in H2 2022)
- Orbital Sidekick GHOSt (additional sats in 2022)
- Qosmosys (two sats in 2022 and two options for 2023)
- Lynk (more sats in 2022)
- MBZ-SAT (H2 2023)
- NanoAvionics (16U nanosatellite in H1 2023)
- Formosat-8A (2023)
- Formosat-8B (2024)
- Planet (many more sats to be launched between 2022 and 2025)
- Fasat (10 Chilean satellites to be launched between 2021 and 2024)
- Momentus Vigoride (on one of the upcoming Starlink missions)
- Project 425 (5 Korean satellites to be launched between 2023 and 2025)
- BlueBird (one or more satellites)
Delayed payloads from previous missions
- Landmapper-Demo6+7, XVI, BHAARATHIYA-SAT, SMPOD-03, Astrogate Labs, SAI-2, TechEdSat-15, Hypernova, PyCubed-1, HERON MkII, Lynk-07, TROOP-4, RROCI, Albania 1, Alba Cluster 5 (KILI-1 and others), Hawk 5A, 5B, 5C, DISCO-1, Veery-FS1, STORK-6, GOSSAMER-PICARD, REVELA, TRSI-3, Gossamer Vendelinus, STORK 8, NUTSAT-3, VIREO C3S
- Spaceflight SHERPA-LTC1 – LLITED (2 sats), MA61C
- Spaceflight SHERPA-FX5 – Agile MicroSat, CNCE (2 sats), SPiN-1
Dedicated Missions
Other Shared Missions
Date | Orbit | Primary payload | Secondary payload |
✅ Jun 13, 2020 | LEO, 53° | Starlink v1-8 | Skysat 16–18 |
✅ Aug 7, 2020 | LEO, 53° | Starlink v1-9 | BlackSky Global (2 sats) |
✅ Aug 18, 2020 | LEO, 53° | Starlink v1-10 | Skysat 19–21 |
✅ Aug 31, 2020 | SSO | SAOCOM 1B | GNOMES-1, Tyvak-0172 |
✅ May 15, 2021 | LEO, 53° | Starlink v1-26 | Capella-6, Tyvak-0130 |
✅ Dec 2, 2021 | LEO, 53.2° | Starlink 4-3 | BlackSky Global (2 sats) |
Dec 2022 | LEO, 53° | Starlink? | Lynk (6 sats) |
Q1 2024 | LEO, 53° | Starlink? | Launcher Orbiter SN5 |
Do you know approximate % capacity allotted, based on assigned satellites to a Transporter mission? For example, is there room still on Trans-2? Enough for SARah-1? Thanks
I don’t think that kind of information is available.
How sure are you about Bluewalker 3 is on Transporter 5 mission in june?
Regards/ an AST SpaceMobile reddit moderator
It’s an assumption based on this article, which said: