{"id":46760,"date":"2026-07-07T19:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacexs-transporter-17-mission-launches-81-payloads\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:24:54","slug":"spacexs-transporter-17-mission-launches-81-payloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacexs-transporter-17-mission-launches-81-payloads\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-17 Mission Launches 81 Payloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SpaceX<\/strong> launched 81 payloads on the latest launch in its rideshare series, Transporter-17.&nbsp;The mission launched early Tuesday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a Falcon 9 rocket, taking off at 12:12 a.m. PT (3:12 a.m. ET).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mission had a number of notable milestones onboard, including the first Nova satellite from <strong>Apex Space<\/strong>, which is set to demonstrate the Nova platform architecture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another first included the tech demonstration satellite for<strong> Planet<\/strong>\u2019s second-generation Pelican fleet, Pelican-11.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It included the first operational satellites of the <strong>Earth Fire Alliance<\/strong>\u2019s (EFA) FireSat constellation, built by <strong>Muon Space<\/strong>. These satellites are designed to identify early wildfire ignitions and track active fires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>French radio frequency detection company <strong>Unseenlabs<\/strong> launched the first satellite in its second-generation (Gen 2) constellation, built to expand its RF detection capabilities to multi-domain awareness spanning maritime, land, and space.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting first onboard was <strong>City Lab<\/strong>\u2019s BOHR satellite, which the company called the world\u2019s first commercial nuclear-power satellite and first nuclear cubesat. The mission will use City Labs\u2019 NanoTritium betavoltaic technology in orbit as a dedicated payload power source.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NearSpace Launch, Inc.<\/strong> (NSL) launched three satellites in the SPEAR-1 mission to support U.S. national security.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Cosmos<\/strong> had two satellites on the mission, Posid\u00f2nia, the first satellite of the Balearic Islands, and Hyperion GR-1 the first of seven satellites for Open Cosmos\u2019 Greek constellation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spire Global<\/strong> had 10 Lemur-2 satellites onboard for various customers including three for <strong>Deloitte<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rideshare integrator<strong> Exolaunch<\/strong> deployed 49 customer satellites on the mission, including four satellites for <strong>Iceye<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another rideshare integrator <strong>SEOPS<\/strong> integrated 10 customer spacecraft, including a satellite for<strong> FOSSA Systems<\/strong>, the NearSpaceLaunch satellite, and R5 Spacecraft 9, which comes from a partnership between <strong>Sandia National Laboratory<\/strong> and <strong>NASA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched 81 payloads on the latest launch in its rideshare series, Transporter-17.&nbsp;The mission launched early Tuesday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a Falcon 9 rocket, taking off at 12:12 a.m. PT (3:12 a.m. ET).&nbsp; The mission had a number of notable milestones onboard, including the first Nova satellite from Apex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}