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SpaceX Transporter Smallsat Rideshare Programme

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Missions → Intuition-1 (Operational) , MENUT (Operational) , Pixxel Firefly-1 (Operational) , Pixxel Firefly-2 (Operational) , Pixxel Firefly-3 (Operational) , RNLAF SAR-1 , VIREON-1 (Operational) , VIREON-2 (Operational) , YAM-3 (Operational) , YAM-5 (Operational) , YAM-6 (Operational) , Tanager-1 (Operational) , Umbra SAR constellation (Operational) , Spire Lemur-2 (Operational) , FORMOSAT-8 (Operational) , MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment) (Planned) , IMECE (Operational) , EagleEye (Degraded)

Dedicated smallsat rideshare service to sun-synchronous orbit, operated by SpaceX on Falcon 9 Block 5. Missions numbered sequentially from Transporter-1 (January 2021). Cadence approximately quarterly to biannual. Dominant launch service for commercial EO smallsats including Planet, ICEYE, Spire, Capella, Pixxel, Satellogic, and GHGSat. Pricing approximately 7,000 USD per kilogram as of early 2026, with a 50 kg minimum slot. SpaceX does not publish official per-mission total payload mass; the 5,000 kg figure here is the conservative typical-manifest mass cited across third-party trackers.

SpaceX Transporter is the SSO-dedicated mission series within SpaceX's Smallsat Rideshare Program, carrying commercial smallsats to sun-synchronous orbit on Falcon 9 Block 5.[1][2] Missions are numbered sequentially from Transporter-1, which launched in January 2021, with SSO rideshare opportunities published approximately every four months alongside mid-inclination opportunities at other orbital inclinations.[1] SpaceX publishes rideshare pricing starting at $350,000 for a 50 kg minimum slot, with additional mass at $7,000 per kilogram.[1] Customers include EO operators across commercial remote sensing, technology demonstration, and IoT applications.[2] Transporter-16 launched 119 payloads to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 30 March 2026.[3][4]

Supply chain position

launched Intuition-1
launched MENUT
launched Pixxel Firefly-1
launched Pixxel Firefly-2
launched Pixxel Firefly-3
launched RNLAF SAR-1
launched VIREON-1
launched VIREON-2
launched YAM-3
launched YAM-5
launched YAM-6
launched Tanager-1
launched Umbra SAR constellation
launched Spire Lemur-2
launched FORMOSAT-8
launched MULA (Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment)
launched IMECE
launched EagleEye
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SpaceX Transporter Smallsat Rideshare Programme. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V., last reviewed 2026-05-25. https://eo-atlas.org/launch_services/spacex-transporter (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:launch_services:spacex-transporter,
  title = {SpaceX Transporter Smallsat Rideshare Programme},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Last reviewed 2026-05-25. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/launch_services/spacex-transporter}
}