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6:00 PM
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ICEYE, Spire, HawkEye, and 115 others just got their ride to space
Orig: SpaceX Delivers 119 Payloads to Sun-Synchronous Orbit on Transporter-16
Full Transporter-16 manifest breakdown from NASASpaceFlight: Exolaunch (57 payloads), SEOPS (19), Alba Orbital (5 PocketQubes), ICEYE (6 SAR sats for POLSARIS), Muon Space (3 Vindlér RF monitoring), EnduroSat (Femto-1 propulsion demo), and Aethero Space's on-orbit AI compute demo Phobos.
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2:00 PM
73 FOMO
119 satellites, one rocket, zero drama: Transporter-16 nails it
Orig: SpaceX Launches 119 Payloads on Transporter-16 Rideshare Mission
SpaceX's first dedicated rideshare of 2026 pushed the program's cumulative total past 1,600 satellites deployed. Exolaunch led with 57 payloads; customers included ICEYE, HawkEye 360, Spire, and Bellatrix Aerospace.
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