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:
- Mar 20, 2023 – Several SatRev payloads to launch on Transporter-9
- Mar 15, 2023 – IVO Quantum Drive to launch on Transporter-8
- Mar 14, 2023 – MuSat-1 to launch on Transporter-8
- Mar 11, 2023 – InspireSat 7 to launch on Transporter-7; Geometric-2 likely delayed to Transporter-8
- Mar 9, 2023 – Veronika to launch on Transporter-9; CRYPTO3 to potentially launch on Transporter-8
- Mar 7, 2023 – More Transporter-7 payloads: GHGSat-C6/C7/C8, FACSAT-2, HawkEye Cluster 7, Connecta T2.1
- Mar 2, 2023 – Wyvern-1 to launch on Transporter-7
- Mar 1, 2023 – Updated payloads flying with Launcher Orbiter SN3 on Transporter-8
Announced payloads or customers without an assigned mission
- FOSSASat FEROX (second batch with Momentus)
- 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)
- Lunasonde (several Gossamer sats with Exolaunch)
- OrbAstro (satellites on three launches)
- Qosmosys (two to four sats)
- Fasat (10 Chilean satellites)
- MBZ-SAT (H2 2023)
- NanoAvionics/Contec (16U nanosatellite in H1 2023)
- Formosat-8A (2023)
- Formosat-8B (2024)
- Planet (many more sats to be launched)
- 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)
- Hello Space (additional satellites with Alba Orbital)
- TSIS-2 (2024)
- LizzieSat (4 launches in 2024 and 2025)
- MicroSAR (in early 2025)
- Observer-1 (in 2023 with Exolaunch)
- Tomorrow.io (more pairs of satellites on future missions)
- Fleet Space (4 sats to launch to 45° inclination in 2023)
Delayed payloads from previous missions
Landmapper-Demo6+7, XVI, BHAARATHIYA-SAT, Hypernova, PyCubed-1, HERON MkII, KILI-1, GOSSAMER-PICARD, Gossamer Vendelinus, STORK 8, NUTSAT-3, OSAM-2, Vision-1/FeatherEdge, WVSAT (4 sats), TagSat-3 (hosted), GENMAT-1, SEOPS, PredaSAR, Blackjack (4 sats), STORK 7, ORESAT0.5
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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✅ January 13, 2022 | SpaceX Transporter-3 (105 satellites) | SSO |
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✅ April 1, 2022 | SpaceX Transporter-4 (40 satellites) | SSO |
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✅ May 25, 2022 | SpaceX Transporter-5 (59 sats) | SSO |
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✅ January 3, 2023 | SpaceX Transporter-6 (114 sats) | SSO |
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April 2023 | SpaceX Transporter-7 | SSO |
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June 2023 | SpaceX Transporter-8 | SSO |
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October 2023 | SpaceX Transporter-9 | SSO |
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January 2024 | SpaceX Transporter-10 | SSO |
June 2024 | SpaceX Transporter-11 | SSO |
Q4 2024 | SpaceX Transporter-12 | 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 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 |
TBD | LEO, 53° | Starlink? | Lynk (6 sats) |
Q1 2024 | LEO, 53° | Starlink? | Launcher Orbiter SN5 |
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: