SpaceX Transporter-5 Commercial Payloads Mission

SpaceX Transporter-5 Commercial Payloads Mission

On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at 2:35 p.m. ET, a Falcon 9 rocket launched Transporter-5, SpaceX’s fifth dedicated smallsat rideshare program mission, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the eighth launch and landing of this Falcon 9 stage booster, which previously supported launch of Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, one Starlink mission, and Transporter-4. 

Following stage separation, SpaceX landed Falcon 9’s first stage on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. On board this flight were 59 spacecraft, including CubeSats, microsats, non-deploying hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles, plus Nanoracks’ Outpost Mars Demo 1 experiment to test technologies for cutting into rocket upper stages.

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Image Date: May 25, 2022

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