SpaceX <\/b>launched 116 payloads to orbit on Friday in the 11th Transporter dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. <\/p>\n
A Falcon 9 rocket launched the mission on Aug. 16 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, lifting off at 11:56 a.m. PT. The mission was set to last 2 hours and 36 minutes to deploy all payloads. <\/p>\n
For Planet<\/b>, the mission was the first launch of a hyperspectral satellite, Tanager-1, which launched along with 36 SuperDoves. Tanager-1 is launched in partnership with the Carbon Mapper Coalition<\/strong> and will provide hyperspectral data to both Carbon Mapper and Planet\u2019s regular business. The satellite is designed to monitor methane and carbon dioxide for a variety of use cases. <\/p>\n Exolaunch<\/b> supported 42 satellites on the mission, a record number of satellites on one mission for the company. Exolaunch supported integration for Planet\u2019s satellites, along with a number of other customers. Its customers included two satellites for Australia\u2019s ARC Training Centre CUAVA<\/strong> for cubesats and UAVs, CUAVA-2 and Waratah Seed-1. The company\u2019s other customers included seven satellites for Spire Global<\/strong>, Sateliot<\/strong>, Unseenlabs<\/strong>, Aethero Space<\/b>, Capella Space<\/b>, Poland\u2019s Creotech<\/b> (Poland), the European Space Agency, <\/b>Germany\u2019s Fraunhofer Institute<\/b>, Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries<\/b> via GomSpace<\/b>, HawkEye 360<\/b>\u2018s cluster 10, Loft Orbital,<\/b> Open Cosmos<\/b>, Turkey\u2019s Plan-S<\/b>, Portland State Aerospace Society<\/b>, Taiwan\u2019s Pyras Technology<\/b> and Rapidtek<\/b>, three satellites for Satellogic<\/b>, Senegal Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI)<\/b>, and Hubble Labs<\/b> via Spire Global. <\/b><\/p>\n NanoAvionics built four satellites \u2014 Chile\u2019s first private satellite Lemu Nge, which means Forest Eye and will monitor the world\u2019s forests; HYPSO-2 for the Norwegian University of Science and Technology<\/strong> to monitor ocean health; and two 3U nanosatellites, for an undisclosed customer that will be used for a red-green-blue (RGB) Earth observation and a communication mission.<\/p>\n Exolaunch also supported an Earth observation (EO) satellite for the United Arab Emirates via Yahsat<\/strong> and Bayanat<\/strong>, provided by Iceye<\/strong>, which had three other satellites on the mission.<\/p>\n Climate tech company Hydrosat<\/b> launched its first satellite, VanZyl-1, which will collect high-resolution thermal imagery to monitor water stress, crop health, and climate-related events. <\/p>\n Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provider Umbra<\/strong> launched a pair of SAR satellites, Umbra-09 and Umbra-10, on the mission.<\/p>\n Rideshare integrator SEOPS i<\/b>ntegrated five payloads on the mission, including two payloads for NASA<\/b>\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate\u2019s Small Spacecraft Technology program; Iperdrone funded by the Italian Space Agency<\/b>; Train Rapid On Payload (TROOP-F2) hosted payload for NearSpace Launch<\/b>; and Water Resources in Efficient Networks (WREN-1) from Hungarian space company C3S<\/b>. <\/p>\n ISISpace<\/b> manifested a number of customers including a homegrown satellite for South Australia, Kanyini, equipped with dual IoT and imager payloads. Kanyini is the first State Government-funded satellite in the nation and was built by a local team of South Australian-based companies \u2013 SmartSat CRC<\/strong>, Inovor<\/strong>, and Myriota<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Other customers included integrator Maverick Space Systems<\/b>; two for Tomorrow.io<\/b>, and the TYCHE imaging satellite for the U.K. military, manifested by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited<\/b> (SSTL). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SpaceX launched 116 payloads to orbit on Friday in the 11th Transporter dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. A Falcon 9 rocket launched the mission on Aug. 16 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, lifting off at 11:56 a.m. PT. The mission was set to last 2 hours and 36 minutes to deploy all payloads. 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