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Launch Date
1/24/2021
Launch Site
CC LC40
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
Aurora Insight's satellite-based radio frequency spectrum sensor named Charlie is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 on Friday, 2021-01-22 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The 143 satellites on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission were the most deployed on a single launch, breaking the previous record of 104 set by an Indian PSLV mission in February 2017.
Swarm launched 36 SpaceBee satellites on Transporter-1 by working with two different payload aggregators.
Planet launched 48 Dove cubesats on Transporter-1, with 36 contracted directly with SpaceX and 12 contracted through other companies.
SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission launched 143 satellites on 2021-01-24.
Kepler Communications contracted ISISPACE and ISILAUNCH to manage the integration of its smallsats on board the Transporter-1 mission, including interface design and development, deployers, a sequencer, and full-service integration support to deliver all satellites and equipment to the launch site and mate them with Falcon 9.
Of the 143 satellites aboard the Transporter-1 mission, 115 are operated by AWS customers using AWS services.
SpaceX’s dedicated rideshare missions similar to Transporter-1 are planned to deliver payloads to sun-synchronous orbit (SSO).
SpaceX's Transporter-1 mission in January 2021 deployed 133 commercial and government spacecraft and 10 Starlink satellites, the most spacecraft ever deployed on a single mission.
The Department of Defense concerns led to the FAA failing to grant approval in time for Momentus’ Vigoride-1 tug to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 rideshare mission in January 2025.
Capella Space launched two other synthetic aperture radar satellites on Transporter-1, a SpaceX Falcon 9 dedicated rideshare mission in January.
The second payload fairing half on the 2021-05-26 launch was on its third flight and had been used previously on a Starlink launch and the Transporter-1 rideshare mission in January.
Spaceflight Inc. successfully deployed 14 spacecraft from its first next-generation OTV, Sherpa-FX, on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-1 launch in January.
Vigoride’s operational debut had been slated for SpaceX’s 2021-01-24 Transporter-1 mission but Vigoride was pulled from that launch after delays in completing an interagency review.
Planet launched Flock 4s, 48 SuperDoves, on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 sun-synchronous orbit rideshare mission.
Planet launched Flock 4s, 48 SuperDoves, on the Transporter-1 sun-synchronous rideshare launch.
LeoLabs offers a collision avoidance service and tracks satellites deployed on rideshare missions such as SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission in January that carried 143 payloads.
Momentus missed the opportunity to launch its first tug Vigoride-1 on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 rideshare mission in January because it could not complete a Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation payload review in time.
On SpaceX’s Transporter-1 rideshare mission in 2021, Exolaunch launched 30 contracted satellites.
On SpaceX’s Transporter-1 dedicated rideshare mission earlier in 2021, Exolaunch launched 30 contracted satellites.