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Launch Date
5/25/2022
Launch Site
CC LC40
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
Momentus acquired a payload dispenser from another company that will fly on Transporter-5 carrying a cubesat from a student group at Cal Poly Pomona and four other unnamed payloads.
The June 2022 Transporter-5 launch will depend on Momentus fully implementing the NSA and obtaining the licenses required for the mission.
Momentus is building the Vigoride 3 tug to launch on the Transporter-5 mission.
Voyager Space and Nanoracks expect the first Outpost demonstration mission, Outpost Mars Demo-1, to launch 2022-05 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare flight.
On Wednesday, 2022-05-25, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Transporter-5 mission to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Exolaunch deployed 21 satellites on Transporter-5, including satellites for Iceye, Satellogic, and Spire into sun-synchronous orbit.
SpaceX launched the Transporter-5 dedicated rideshare mission on 2022-05-25 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida at 2:35 p.m. Eastern.
Satellogic launched four additional satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission on 2022-05-25.
Momentus launched its first space tug, Vigoride-3, on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 on 2022-05-25.
Transporter-5 will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch multiple CubeSats from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) carrying the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) system will launch on 2022-05-25 as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
Momentus signed an agreement with SpaceX for a second port on Transporter-5 and reserved space on the next four Transporter rideshare missions scheduled for October 2022 and October 2023.
Terran Orbital Corporation shipped two next-generation satellites from GeoOptics to Cape Canaveral for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission.
On 2022-05-06, Momentus delivered mission hardware to Cape Canaveral for integration onto the Falcon 9 for the Transporter-5 launch.
Vigoride 3, Momentus’ first tug launched on Transporter-5 in May 2022, experienced communications issues and a solar array that failed to properly deploy.
Vigoride-3 deployed two satellites three days after its 2022-05-25 launch on the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
The 2022-12-29 Falcon 9 booster previously supported Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter-4, Transporter-5, Globalstar FM15, and two Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9 booster supporting the Korea 425 mission previously launched Transporter-5, Globalstar FM15, and ISI EROS C-3.