On January 11, 2026, Exolaunch successfully deployed 22 satellites on SpaceX's Twilight rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., USA. The launch marks the first rideshare mission targeting a dawn-dusk orbit and highlights Exolaunch's increasingly diverse portfolio of missions, including specialized sun-synchronous orbits.

Twilight featured payloads from Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey and the United States, supporting missions in Earth observation, IoT connectivity, scientific research, and technology demonstration.

Exolaunch provided end-to-end launch mission management, including launch capacity procurement with Falcon 9, coordination of all contractual and technical deliverables, logistics and customs clearance services, launch campaign operations and satellite integration with the launch vehicle at Vandenberg Space Force Base, flight-proven deployment technologies and satellite deployment into its target orbit.

Exolaunch manifested the following spacecraft on the Twilight mission:

• Two ICEYE satellites (Finland)

• Hawk-13A, Hawk-13B and Hawk-13C, collectively Cluster 13, for HawkEye 360 (USA)

• Flamingo-1 for Vyoma (Germany)

• LEMUR-2-MARIO-SOUSA, LEMUR-2-CALLUM-K-J, LEMUR-2-GRAM-E-SUE, LEMUR-2-SONNENBLUME, LEMUR-2-KATIE, LEMUR-2-FIKRETDENGIZ, LEMUR-2-HCS-BAZUS, LEMUR-2-WOBLER and LEMUR-2-KUTAR for Spire Global (USA)

• Connecta IoT-13, Connecta IoT-14, Connecta IoT-15, and Connecta IoT-16 for Plan-S (Turkey)

• BlackCAT, NASA-funded satellite for Kongsberg

• NanoAvionics and Penn State University with contributions from Los Alamos National Laboratory (Lithuania, USA)

• Dcubed-1 / Araqys-D1 for Dcubed (Germany)

• HYDRA-2 for Aistech Space via Endurosat (Spain, Bulgaria)

This was the 42nd mission in the company's flight heritage, and the first launch in 2026.