SpaceX Smallsat Rideshares
- 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:
- Jul 24, 2024 – GEN 1 to launch on Transporter-12
- Jul 17, 2024 – HiVE to launch on Transporter-12
- Jul 16, 2024 – PExT moved from Transporter-11 to Transporter-13
- Jul 15, 2024 – Garay and Sigi to launch on Transporter-12
- Jul 4, 2024 – Botsat-1 to launch on Transporter-13; San Xavier and OSSIE to launch on Transporter-14
- Jul 3, 2024 – Added LEO Express 2 payloads on Transporter-12; Nyx 2 Mission Possible might launch on Transporter-14
- Jul 2, 2024 – Winnebago-2 moved from Transporter-11 to Transporter-12; UND ROADS 1/2 to launch on Transporter-13; Celestis Perseverance to possibly launch on Transporter-14; added Alba Orbital payloads on Transporter-12
- Jun 27, 2024 – CroCube moved from Transporter-11 to Bandwagon-2
Announced payloads or customers without an assigned mission
- Geometric-2 – NOCLIP-1, MOXY-1 (on Transporter-12 or Bandwagon-2)
- Additional XR satellite(s)
- Satellogic (additional satellites on both Transporter and Starlink missions)
- Three more La Jument satellites for Lockheed
- VariSat (up to 24 sats on SSO missions)
- Sen EarthTV (several sats)
- OrbAstro (satellites on three launches)
- Qosmosys (two to four sats)
- Fasat (10 Chilean satellites)
- Formosat-8A (2024)
- Formosat-8B (2025)
- TSIS-2 (mid 2025)
- LizzieSat (4 launches in 2024 and 2025)
- MicroSAR (in early 2025)
- HawkEye 360 (several missions in 2025 with Exolaunch)
Delayed payloads from previous missions
Landmapper-Demo6+7, BHAARATHIYA-SAT, Hypernova, PyCubed-1, KILI-1, GOSSAMER-PICARD, Gossamer Vendelinus, STORK 8, NUTSAT-3, Vision-1/FeatherEdge, WVSAT (4 sats), TagSat-3 (hosted), GENMAT-1, PredaSAR, Muninn, ACS-1, Labsat, GHOSt, DeploScope (8 sats), Xcraft, RapidEO, CUAVA-2, Waratah Seed, OREsat-0.5, Zeus-2, Apogeo, Gaindesat, Djibouti, Triton-X (hosted), RebelSat, ForgeStar-1
Dedicated Missions
Date | Mission | Orbit | Pad |
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✅ January 24, 2021 | Transporter-1 (143 payloads) | SSO | SLC-40 |
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✅ June 30, 2021 | Transporter-2 (88 payloads) | SSO | SLC-40 |
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✅ January 13, 2022 | Transporter-3 (105 payloads) | SSO | SLC-40 |
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✅ April 1, 2022 | Transporter-4 (40 payloads) | SSO | SLC-40 |
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✅ May 25, 2022 | Transporter-5 (59 payloads) | SSO | SLC-40 |
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✅ January 3, 2023 | Transporter-6 (114 payloads) | SSO | SLC-40 |
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✅ April 15, 2023 | Transporter-7 (51 payloads) | SSO | SLC-4E |
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✅ June 12, 2023 | Transporter-8 (72 payloads) | SSO | SLC-4E |
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✅ November 11, 2023 | Transporter-9 (113 payloads) | SSO | SLC-4E |
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✅ March 4, 2024 | Transporter-10 (53 payloads) | SSO | SLC-4E |
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✅ April 7, 2024 | Bandwagon-1 | mid-inclination | LC-39A |
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July 2024 | Transporter-11 | SSO | SLC-4E |
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October 2024 | Transporter-12 | SSO | SLC-40/SLC-4E |
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November 2024 | Bandwagon-2 | mid-inclination | Florida |
February 2025 | Transporter-13 | SSO | SLC-40/SLC-4E |
February 2025 | Bandwagon-3 | mid-inclination | Florida |
May 2025 | Bandwagon-4 | mid-inclination | Florida |
June 2025 | Transporter-14 | SSO | SLC-40 |
Q4 2025 | Transporter-15 | SSO | SLC-40/SLC-4E |
Other Shared Missions
Date | Orbit | Primary payload(s) | Secondary payload(s) |
✅ 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) |
✅ Sep 5, 2022 | LEO, 53.2° | Starlink 4-20 | SHERPA-LTC2 + Varuna |
✅ Sep 11, 2022 | LEO, 53.2° | Starlink 4-2 | BlueWalker 3 |
✅ Jan 31, 2023 | LEO, 70° | Starlink 2-6 | D-Orbit ION SCV009 |
✅ Dec 1, 2023 | SSO | Project 425 F1 | 24 sats (SpiRIT, EIRSAT-1, GNOMES-4, Bane, Hayasat-1, ISL48, KOYOH, ENSO, µHETSat and others) |
Winter 2024 | ? | ? | HAKUTO-R Mission 2 |
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: