Exolaunch integrated 32 customer satellites with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as all reached their orbits following the Transporter-8 mission liftoff from Vandenberg SFB — Exolaunch has now managed 300 satellite launches.
Exolaunch provided mission management and integration services for New Space leaders and longstanding customers such as Spire Global, Kongsberg NanoAvionics and ICEYE, as well as returning customers Satlantis, Swarm Technologies and TU Stuttgart.
Additionally, Exolaunch welcomed new customers who selected the Company’s CarboNIX, shock-free smallsat separation systems to ensure a reliable separation for their satellites, including Muon Space, Turion Space, Aerospacelab and Azista BST Aerospace (ABA).
Exolaunch successfully mated all 32 smallsats with SpaceX’s new Rideshare Plates. Exolaunch welcomed customer teams from around the world to its Berlin facilities to perform a joint integration of CubeSats with their EXOpod / EXOpod Nova deployers.
In addition to its integration services, Exolaunch is provided proprietary and flight-proven hardware to all customers on this mission. The Company’s CarboNIX separation system boasts a heritage of more than 50 smallsats deployed across 12 missions and has become the system of choice for smallsat innovators, due to its reliability and scalable solution. Exolaunch is also provided CubeSat customers with EXOpod / EXOpod Nova deployers that have set multiple industry records by deploying the first 16U smallsat in orbit and are the only product to achieve this in GEO.
This was Exolaunch’s 11th mission with SpaceX, manifested under long-term Multi-Launch Agreements (MLAs) first signed in 2020 and repeatedly expanded to include new missions. Transporter-8 was the latest launch in SpaceX’s dedicated rideshare program and Exolaunch has manifested customers on each Transporter mission since the program debuted.
“Our mission management team is committed to customer success every step of the way, from the clean room to orbit. They orchestrate missions that are years in the making to ensure a smooth experience – even on entirely new rideshare architectures like we’ve seen here. However, launch services are only one side of the story, and we’re very grateful to SpaceX for continuing to transform the access-to-space landscape with regular, reliable launches and ever-better technology.”
— Connor Pollock, Mission Director at Exolaunch
