The Transporter-7 mission is scheduled to lift off Wednesday (April 12) at 2:48 a.m. ET.
to orbit. The payloads are scheduled to be deployed over a roughly 90-minute span, beginning about an hour after liftoff.
The payloads flying on Wednesday are a diverse lot, consisting of"cubesats, microsats, hosted payloads and orbital transfer vehicles carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time," SpaceX wrote in the mission description. The satellites will be operated by a variety of customers. For example, three belong to Canadian company GHGSat, which detects greenhouse gas emissions from space.
As its name suggests, Transporter-7 is the seventh small-satellite rideshare mission that SpaceX has launched to date. The most recent one, Transporter-6,Transporter-6 sent 114 satellites to orbit — quite a haul, but not a record. The mark belongs to SpaceX's Transporter-1, which launched a whopping
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