On July 7, Exolaunch successfully deployed 49 customer satellites, out of 81 satellites, on SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Lift-off occurred from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:12 a.m. CET. With this mission, Exolaunch reached the milestone of the 800th deployed satellite in the company's flight heritage.

Transporter-17 carried 19 microsatellites and 30 cubesats for more than 20 commercial, institutional and government customers of Exolaunch. With the completion of Transporter-17, Exolaunch has now deployed 839 satellites across 48 missions, further strengthening its position as a leading provider of launch and deployment services worldwide.

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, for a variety of new and existing customers on this mission. Exolaunch manifested the following spacecraft on the Transporter-17 mission:

• Apolink IPoS for Apolink Communications (Bifrost Orbital) (USA)

• GRUS-3A, GRUS-3B, GRUS-3C, GRUS-3D, GRUS-3E, GRUS-3F and GRUS-3G for Axelspace (Japan)

• KOSTKA for Brno University of Technology (YSpace) (Czech Republic)

• MARMOTSat for the Canadian Space Agency (Canada)

• Balkan-3 Cuby-1, Cuby-2, Cuby-3, Cuby-4, and Cuby-5 for EnduroSat (Bulgaria)

• CYBERCUBE for GMV (Spain)

• Four ICEYE satellites for ICEYE (Finland)

• FireSat1, FireSat2 and FireSat3 for Muon Space (USA)

• Posidonia and Hyperion GR 1 for Open Cosmos (UK, Spain)

• LEONAV-1 for the United Arab Emirates University (UAE)

• LEMUR-2-SOPHILUNA-X1, LEMUR-2-ALYX, LEMUR-2-ALEX-FULTON, LEMUR-2-CRIMBOREALIS, LEMUR-2-JESS-R, LEMUR-2-DELOITTE-5, LEMUR-2-DELOITTE-4, LEMUR-2-DELOITTE-6, LEMUR-2-ELEONORE and LEMUR-2-NURAY for Spire (USA, UK, Luxembourg)

• Oasis Alpha for Tumbleweed (Austria)

• BRO-31 for Unseenlabs (France)

• BOHR for Voyager (USA)

• SCION-X for Wistron (Taiwan)

• TOM-1, TOM-2, TOM-3 and CloudCT-Precursor, for Zentrum für Telematik (Germany)

In addition, Exolaunch provided deployment and integration services for the following satellites:

• Loft-EarthDaily-8 for Loft Orbital (USA)

• Pelican-11 for Planet (USA)

And more.

This was the 48th mission in the company's flight heritage.

• Mission

  Transporter-17

• Launch vehicle

  Falcon 9

• Launch site

  Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA

• Launch date

  July 7, 2026