SpaceX<\/b> launched 131 payloads on the Transporter-12 mission to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Jan. 14. This was SpaceX\u2019s first rideshare mission of 2025. <\/p>\n
The Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 10:10 a.m. PT. SpaceX has launched over 1,100 payloads to orbit for more than 130 customers across the rideshare program.<\/p>\n
Transporter-12\u2019s largest contributor to this launch, Planet Labs,<\/b> sent the Pelican-2 satellite and 36 SuperDoves of Flock 4G to orbit. Pelican-2 is AI-powered with onboard integration using NVIDIA\u2019s Jetson Edge AI platform. Planet plans to launch more Pelican satellites this year. <\/p>\n
Other customers included German startup, Reflex Aerospace<\/b>, which <\/b>launched its first commercial satellite, SIGI, with a payload for Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS). <\/p>\n
W-2, Varda Space Industries<\/b>\u2019 second orbital capsule, launched aboard Transporter-12 as well. The capsule carries payloads from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and NASA.<\/p>\n
The SpaceX launch also included three startups from India. Pixxel <\/b>launched three satellites of its Firefly constellation, which are imaging satellites that aim to provide revisit capability to any location. Digantara <\/b>sent a space camera for space debris object tracking. XDLINX <\/b>sent Elevation-1, a 6U spacecraft with an E-band communications payload.<\/p>\n
Spanish startup, FOSSA Systems<\/b>, integrated three FOSSASats, reporting the satellites are 24 times larger than FOSSASat-1 and 12 times larger than the FOSSASat-2E series launched in January 2022. <\/p>\n
SpaceX launched a number of orbital transfer vehicles on the mission, including LEO Express-2, the second OTV mission for Impulse Space<\/b> along with D-Orbit\u2019s<\/b> Endless Sky and Ascend, the company\u2019s 15th and 16th ION satellite carrier missions.<\/p>\n
Exolaunch <\/b>deployers carried cubesats for Spire Global, TU Berlin, OroraTech<\/b>, and UnseenLabs<\/b>. Spire had six LEMUR spacecraft on the flight. Exolaunch integrated four satellites for Iceye and constellr\u2019s<\/b> first thermal infrared monitoring satellite, Sky-Bee-1. <\/p>\n
Transporter-12 also included the SEOPS<\/b>-integrated satellite SAT GUS, which aims to allow people to take selfies in space with Earth as the backdrop in the \u201cSpace Selfie\u201d project. <\/p>\n
NanoAvionics<\/b> sent SkyBee-1 and Absolut Sensing\u2019s GESat CH4 monitoring demonstrator aboard its 16U cubesat.<\/p>\n
Plan-S<\/b> launched four more of its Connecta IoT satellites.<\/p>\n
Dawn Aerospace<\/b> announced its propulsion systems supported six satellites on the mission. <\/p>\n
Fleet Space Technologies<\/b> had two satellites on the mission, Centauri 7 and 8, manifested by Tyvak International.<\/b><\/p>\n
ArkEdge Space<\/b> launched two small satellites, AE1c and AE1d, into orbit aboard SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9.<\/p>\n
Space Flight Laboratory<\/b> deployed Canada\u2019s Gray Jay Arctic surveillance technology demonstration mission: three microsatellites developed for Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).<\/p>\n
The European Space Agency<\/strong> sent the Pathfinder Hawk satellite on the Transporter mission. It is the first IRIDE satellite for environmental, emergency, and security services for Italy.<\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Note: This story has been updated with more details about the satellites onboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SpaceX launched 131 payloads on the Transporter-12 mission to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Jan. 14. This was SpaceX\u2019s first rideshare mission of 2025. The Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 10:10 a.m. PT. SpaceX has launched over 1,100 payloads to orbit for more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49847,"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-49846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49846"}],"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=49846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}