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Payloads on the Transporter-1 mission (Credit: SpaceX)

  • The information on this page is partially based on unofficial sources and educated guesses and is subject to change
  • Dates are in UTC
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  • This list might be incomplete

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Changelog:

  • Jan 19, 2025 –  SpeQtre to launch on Transporter-14; San Xavier moved to Bandwagon-4
  • Jan 18, 2025 – Transporter-12 launched successfully (+payloads updated); Buccaneer, Spinnaker3 and Nila to launch on Transporter-13; OTP-3 delayed to Transporter-17 and Otter Pup 2 to Transporter-14
  • Jan 14, 2025 –  Big update to the Transporter-12 manifest
  • Jan 13, 2025 –  NorSat-4 to launch on Transporter-12; additional Umbra sats to launch on several upcoming missions
  • Jan 12, 2025 –  SCOT to launch on Transporter-12
  • Jan 11, 2025 –  Six LEMUR sats to launch on Transporter-12
  • Jan 10, 2025 –  Under Others, added new shared missions TRACERS and TSIS-2; various updates to Transporter-12 manifest

Announced payloads or customers without an assigned mission

Delayed payloads from previous missions

STORK 8PredaSAR, Muninn, REC (8 sats), XcraftRapidEO, Zeus-2, RebelSat, ForgeStar-1, QAC-1 (4 sats), Kaladin, Acadia-6


Dedicated Missions

Date Mission Orbit Pad
✅ January 24, 2021 Transporter-1 (143 payloads) SSO SLC-40
✅ June 30, 2021 Transporter-2 (88 payloads) SSO SLC-40
✅ January 13, 2022 Transporter-3 (105 payloads) SSO SLC-40
✅ April 1, 2022 Transporter-4 (40 payloads) SSO SLC-40
✅ May 25, 2022 Transporter-5 (59 payloads) SSO SLC-40
✅ January 3, 2023 Transporter-6 (114 payloads) SSO SLC-40
✅ April 15, 2023 Transporter-7 (51 payloads) SSO SLC-4E
✅ June 12, 2023 Transporter-8 (72 payloads) SSO SLC-4E
✅ November 11, 2023 Transporter-9 (113 payloads) SSO SLC-4E
✅ March 4, 2024 Transporter-10 (53 payloads) SSO SLC-4E
✅ April 7, 2024 Bandwagon-1 (11 payloads) mid-inclination LC-39A
✅ August 16, 2024 Transporter-11 (116 payloads) SSO SLC-4E
✅ December 21, 2024 Bandwagon-2 (30 payloads) mid-inclination SLC-4E
✅ January 14, 2025 Transporter-12 (131 payloads) SSO SLC-4E
February 2025 Bandwagon-3 mid-inclination Florida
March 2025 Transporter-13 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E
June 2025 Bandwagon-4 mid-inclination Florida
June 2025 Transporter-14 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E
Q4 2025 Transporter-15 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E
February 2026 Transporter-16 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E
June 2026 Transporter-17 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E
Q4 2026 Transporter-18 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E
Q1 2027 Transporter-19 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E
Q2 2027 Transporter-20 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E
Q4 2027 Transporter-21 SSO SLC-40/SLC-4E

Other Shared Missions

Date Orbit Primary payload(s) Secondary payload(s)
✅ Jun 13, 2020 LEO, 53° Starlink v1-8 Skysat 16–18
✅ Aug 7, 2020 LEO, 53° Starlink v1-9 BlackSky Global (2 sats)
✅ Aug 18, 2020 LEO, 53° Starlink v1-10 Skysat 19–21
✅ Aug 31, 2020 SSO SAOCOM 1B GNOMES-1, Tyvak-0172
✅ May 15, 2021 LEO, 53° Starlink v1-26 Capella-6, Tyvak-0130
✅ Dec 2, 2021 LEO, 53.2° Starlink 4-3 BlackSky Global (2 sats)
✅ Sep 5, 2022 LEO, 53.2° Starlink 4-20 SHERPA-LTC2 + Varuna
✅ Sep 11, 2022 LEO, 53.2° Starlink 4-2 BlueWalker 3
✅ Jan 31, 2023 LEO, 70° Starlink 2-6 D-Orbit ION SCV009
✅ Dec 1, 2023 SSO Project 425 F1 24 sats (SpiRIT, EIRSAT-1, GNOMES-4, Bane, Hayasat-1, ISL48, KOYOH, ENSO, µHETSat and others)
April 2025 SSO TRACERS SPRITE
October 2025 SSO TSIS-2 Umbra-12, also possibly BLAZE and 10 Kepler sats

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Bob

Do you know approximate % capacity allotted, based on assigned satellites to a Transporter mission? For example, is there room still on Trans-2? Enough for SARah-1? Thanks

CatSE

How sure are you about Bluewalker 3 is on Transporter 5 mission in june?

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