Two Norwegian-Dutch smallsats were successfully launched on January 3, 2023 — Birkeland and Huygens were placed into orbit by SpaceX via the Transporter-6 mission. MilSpace2 is a cooperation project between […]
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Open Cosmos’ MENUT EO smallsat launched during the Transporter-6 rideshare mission
Open Cosmos launched their 6U MENUT EO smallsat aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission on January 3, 2023, with the launch planned and overseen by Exolaunch. MENUT is part of the […]
Satellogic’s Aleph-1 constellation expanded with four smallsat deployments via the Transporter-6 rideshare mission
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) has successfully deployed four satellites, launched with SpaceX at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as rideshare members of the Transporter-6 mission — each of the spacecraft […]
Gama’s revolutionary propulsion Gama Alpha Solar Sail mission launches
Gama, a French aerospace company’s first solar sail was launched to space, with the support of the CNES and private companies including CMA CGM, a global player in sea, land, […]
Spire Global launches smallsats on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has launched six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — these smallsats will demo advancements and new capabilities for […]
Space Systems Command’s EWS tech demo smallsat launched by SpaceX
Space Systems Command successfully launched the organization’s Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Weather Systems (EWS) cubesat technical demonstration onboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission at 9:56 a.m. (Eastern, 6:56 a.m. Pacific) from Cape Canaveral […]
The BeetleSat LEO smallsat gains orbit via the SpaceX Transporter-6 launch
BeetleSat, formerly known as NSLComm, has announced the successful launch of their second smallsat from Cape Canaveral, Florida onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Now in SSO at 550 km […]
SpaceX briskly moves 114 smallsat payloads to orbit with their Transporter-6 mission
A Falcon 9 launched the company’s Transporter-6 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The first stage booster supporting this mission previously […]
Planet Labs launches 36 SuperDove smallsats with SpaceX
Planet Labs PBC launched 36 of their SuperDove satellites, Flock 4y, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 3, 2023, at 9:56 a.m., ET (14:56 UTC), on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 […]
Stanford’s Sapling Sempervirens smallsat to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission
Stanford Student Space Initiative (SSI), an undergraduate student group at Stanford University, will launch the Sapling Sempervirens (Sapling-1) satellite on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. […]