Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has announced the successful launch of Europe‘s first solar sail mission aboard SpaceX Transporter-6 — the 6U smallsat, nicknamed ‘Alpha,’ was manufactured for France’s Gama and is […]
Transporter-6 Mission
Spiral Blue’s SE-1 computer reaches orbit
The Space Edge One computer (SE-1), developed by Australian startup Spiral Blue, launched as a hosted payload aboard a Satellogic NewSat spacecraft on the Transporter-6 rideshare mission, which left Earth […]
Norwegian-Dutch smallsats successfully launched
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 […]
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 […]
Successful launch of Unseenlabs’ 8th constellation smallsat
Unseenlabs successfully has launched their eighth satellite since 2019, one dedicated to the geolocation of vessels at sea from space. BRO-8 was launched with Exolaunch as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-6 […]
Pale Blue to provide their water-based propulsion system to Sony for that firm’s spacetainment project
Pale Blue will be providing a water vapor propulsion system (water engine) for Sony’s STAR SPHERE smallsat project. The propulsion system will enter and maintain the orbit of the satellite, […]
Six flight software deployments from Bright Ascension launch on the Transporter-6 mission
Bright Ascension Ltd. has confirmed that the firm’s six, latest, GenerationOne flight software deployments were launched onboard the Transporter-6 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 3, 2023, taking the company’s […]
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 […]
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. […]
Spire Global preparing to launch six satellites in January of 2023
Spire Global, Inc. will launch six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (SFS) no earlier than January of 2023. The satellites will demonstrate advancements […]