Multiple Payloads for Exolaunch Carried on Transporter 8 Mission
Multiple payloads were carried into orbit for Exolaunch on the recent SpaceX Transporter 8 mission. The Exolaunch manifest on Transporter-8 included 32 payloads for international customers from Europe, Asia and North America.
“Our mission management team is committed to customer success every step of the way, from the clean room to orbit.”
Connor Pollock, Exolaunch
Additionally, Exolaunch welcomed new customers who have chosen the company’s CarboNIX shock-free microsatellite separation systems to ensure a reliable separation for their satellites, including Muon Space, Turion Space, Aerospacelab and Azista BST Aerospace (ABA).
Prior to launch the company completed seamless integrations for all its customers, successfully mating 12 microsatellites and 20 CubeSats with SpaceX’s brand-new Rideshare Plates. Exolaunch welcomed customer teams from around the world in its Berlin facilities to perform a joint integration of CubeSats with their EXOpod / EXOpod Nova deployers before integrating microsatellite customers flying on CarboNIX at the launch site in Vandenberg, California.
Flight-Proven Hardware Supported Multiple Payloads
In addition to its integration services, Exolaunch is provided its multiple payloads with proprietary and flight-proven hardware to all its customers on this mission. The Company’s CarboNIX separation system boasts a heritage of over 50 smallsats deployed across 12 missions and has become the system of choice for microsatellite innovators, due to its reliability and scalable solution. Exolaunch is also providing CubeSat customers with EXOpod / EXOpod Nova deployers, which have set multiple industry records by deploying the first 16U smallsat in orbit, and are the only to achieve this in GEO.
“Our mission management team is committed to customer success every step of the way, from the clean room to orbit,” said Connor Pollock, Mission Director at Exolaunch. “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.”
This was Exolaunch’s 11th mission with SpaceX, manifested under long-term Multi-Launch Agreements first signed in 2020 and repeatedly expanded to include new missions. Transporter-8 will be the latest launch in SpaceX’s dedicated rideshare program, and Exolaunch has manifested customers on each Transporter mission since the program’s debut.
(Source: Exolaunch news release. Images from file)