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SpaceX launches third dedicated smallsat rideshare mission - SpaceNews
Jan 13, 2022 41 secs
13 as the company accelerates the pace of its dedicated rideshare missions.

It subsequently launched the ANASIS-2 satellite, CRS-21 cargo mission, Transporter-1 and five Starlink missions before Transporter-3.

Unseenlabs, a French company developing a satellite system for maritime domain awareness, launched its fifth satellite, BRO-5, on Transporter-3.

Spaceflight had planned to fly a Sherpa tug on Transporter-3 but was forced to remove it from the mission after its chemical propulsion system developed a leak during launch processing.

Three satellites from Umbra and an unnamed customer — thought to be Capella Space — also remained on Transporter-3.

The Transporter-3 mission followed two previous dedicated rideshare missions in January and June 2021.

Kleos, a Luxembourg-based company developing a constellation of radio-frequency monitoring satellites, said Jan.

13 that it will launch its next cluster of smallsats on SpaceX’s next dedicated rideshare mission, Transporter-4, in April.

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