Wednesday, July 8, 2026

SpaceX flies Transporter-17 rideshare with 81 payloads

SpaceX

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-17 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:12 a.m. PDT on July 7, carrying 81 payloads - including cubesats, microsats, hosted payloads and orbital transfer vehicles - to a sun-synchronous orbit. The first stage, on its 11th flight, landed on the droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Pacific about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. It was the 17th flight of SpaceX's dedicated Transporter smallsat rideshare program.