Smallsat Rideshare Missions
SpaceX Transporter-1 payload stack (Credit: SpaceX)
- 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:
- Sep 16, 2021 – GT-1 won’t launch on a SpaceX rocket; RROCI to fly on Transporter-4
- Sep 10, 2021 – Additional Lynk satellites to launch on Transporter-5 and another shared mission in Dec 2022 (with Starlink?)
- Sep 1, 2021 – Batch of Spire sats to launch on Transporter-3
- Aug 28, 2021 – GNOMES-3 to launch on Transporter-4
- Aug 24, 2021 – Capella 7+8 to launch on Transporter-3
- Aug 18, 2021 – AuroraSat-1, TRSI-2 and TRSI-3 won’t be launching on a SpaceX rocket
- Aug 13, 2021 – DISCO-1 to be deployed by Momentus Vigoride during Transporter-5
- Aug 12, 2021 – Specified additional payloads flying on SHERPA-LTC1 on Transporter-3; Exolaunch will deploy Alba Clusters 3 and 4 on Transporter-3 (16 sats total)
- Aug 10, 2021 – Added new payloads flying on SHERPA-FX3 on Transporter-3; Skykraft’s satellite to launch on Transporter-5
Announced payloads or customers without an assigned mission
- Additional SpaceBee satellites (2021 and 2022)
- Additional XR satellite(s)
- Bravo (another Aurora Insight satellite in 2021 with Exolaunch/NanoAvionics)
- Satellogic (additional satellites on some Starlink missions)
- Three more La Jument satellites for Lockheed in 2021 and 2022
- VariSat (up to 24 sats between 2021 and 2023 on SSO missions)
- Sen EarthTV (5 sats in 2021 and 2022)
- Orbital Sidekick GHOSt (2022)
- Qosmosys (two sats in 2022 and two options for 2023)
- Lynk (more sats in 2022)
- 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)
- KAI (mid-sized sat in 2023, possibly more)
Delayed payloads from previous missions
STEAMSAT, LabSat, SW1FT/SEZ, NUTSAT, BroncoSat-1, Guardian-Alpha, FEES-2, ORESAT0, Gossamer, IRIS-A, SteamSat-2, Kepler-16, Kepler-17, STORK (3 sats), Challenger, Landmapper-Demo6+Demo7, CPOD A+B, Canary Hatchling, FossaSat-2C, FossaSat-2D, FossaSat-2F, Laika (FossaSat-2B), SanoSat-1, XVI, PredaSAR, Dodona, REVELA, BHAARATHIYA-SAT, SMPOD-03, Astrogate Labs, SSPD-1, Pixxel, NuX-1, PlantSat, SAI-2, SelfieSat
Dedicated Missions
| Date | Mission | Orbit |
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| ✅ January 24, 2021 | SpaceX Transporter-1 (143 satellites) | SSO |
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| ✅ June 30, 2021 | SpaceX Transporter-2 (88 satellites) | SSO |
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| December 2021 | SpaceX Transporter-3 | SSO |
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| March 2022 | SpaceX Transporter-4? | SSO |
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| June 2022 | SpaceX Transporter-5? | SSO |
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| October 2022 | SpaceX Transporter-6? | SSO |
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| April 2023 | SpaceX Transporter-7? | SSO |
| Q2 2023 | SpaceX Transporter-8? | SSO |
| Q4 2023 | SpaceX Transporter-9? | SSO |
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 2022 | LEO, 53° | Starlink? | Lynk (6 sats) |
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.