military used the Transporter-8 mission to launch several satellites. “Flight heritage will enable us to provide greater detail about the operational performance of our product to customers and ultimately fill the gap existing in the market today.” “Today we have moved our work from the laboratory to space,” said Herve Astier, chief executive of Neumann Space, in a statement after the launch. Australian company Neumann Space said its first Neumann Drive electric thruster, which uses a solid metal rod as fuel, was part of a satellite built by Skykraft, another Australian company developing a satellite constellation to support air traffic management services.
In addition to companies flying their first satellites, another company flew its first propulsion system on another satellite. D-Orbit has its latest ION tug on Transporter-8, but the company did not immediately disclose the payloads on that vehicle. Several other payloads are also on Orbiter SN3. The spacecraft, carried on the Orbiter SN3 tug from Launcher, will separate from the tug and then attempt to rendezvous with it. Starfish Space, which is developing satellite servicing technologies, launched its first prototype, Otter Pup, on Transporter-8. Turion Space launched its first spacecraft, Droid.001, to collect space situational awareness data. Muon Space, which is working a constellation of climate-monitoring satellites, flew its MuSat-1 on this launch.
Satellite Vu launches its first satellite, HotSat-1, to demonstrate thermal imaging technologies for its planned constellation. The Transporter-8 payload of dozens of smallsats. Those products will be brought back to Earth in a return capsule on the spacecraft. The spacecraft will test manufacturing of high-value products, like pharmaceuticals, in the space environment. That includes Varda Space Industries, which launched its W-Series 1 spacecraft, built by Rocket Lab. Several companies, though, were flying their first spacecraft on Transporter-8. All three companies used the launch to add to their existing constellations. Spire deployed three cubesats for collecting weather and tracking data, Iceye four radar imaging satellites and Satellogic four optical and hyperspectral imaging satellites. The mission featured a mix of established and emerging satellite developers. The satellites were deployed in a 525-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit starting an hour after liftoff. SpaceX said Transporter-8, the eighth in its line of dedicated smallsat rideshare missions, carried 72 payloads, a figure that includes orbital transfer vehicles with satellites that will be deployed later. The launch was the second of the day for SpaceX, after another Falcon 9 launched more than 14 hours earlier from Cape Canaveral carrying a batch of Starlink satellites. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:35 p.m. Space Force to startups deploying their first satellites. NEW YORK - A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched several dozen smallsats on a dedicated rideshare mission June 12, with customers ranging from the U.S.
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