Transporter 13 Payloads
- Mar 13, 2025
- 2 min read
SpaceX's Transporter-13 Mission is ready to launch! Here is who we spotted hitching a ride in the Falcon 9's payload fairing 🚀 🛰️ 👇

Albedo - Clarity-1, a 530 kg electro-optical Earth observation satellite designed to operate in very low-Earth orbit.
Satrec Initiative Co., Ltd. - SpaceEye-T, an approximately 700 kg optical Earth observation satellite providing high-resolution imagery.
Muon Space - FireSat0/MuSat-4, a 130kg satellite with an infrared imager to detect wildfires and other intense infrared emission sources.
Loft Orbital- YAM-8 microsatellite with several payloads, including a hyperspectral imager from Wyvern. (Not Pictured)
Turion Space - DROID.002, a 90kg spacecraft for space situational awareness with two cameras from HEO.
Botswana International University of Science & Technology - BOTSAT-1, a 3U CubeSat with a medium-resolution imaging payload. (Not Pictured)
ICEYE - Synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Sidus Space - LizzieSat-3 microsatellite with AIS reception, Earth imaging, and HEO's Holmes imager.
Varda Space Industries - W-3/Pioneer-03, a spacecraft with reentry capsules for research on pharmaceutical manufacturing and hypersonic reentry testing.
Spire - Seven LEMUR 2 satellites, including two with optical inter-satellite links and specialized 6U spacecraft.
D-Orbit - ION SCV-017 Marvelous Mathias, a space tug carrying payloads and customer satellites for later deployment.
U-Space - SOAP and PANDORE, two 12U demonstration spacecraft.
The Aerospace Corporation - AeroCube-18 A & B, a pair of 6U CubeSats demonstrating various technologies. (Not Pictured)
Georgia Institute of Technology - OrCa2b, a 12U spacecraft with reflective panels for calibrating ground-based optical sensors.(Not Pictured)
MITRE - M-SEL/Cortez, a 40 kg spacecraft testing RF communications in multiple frequency bands. (Not Pictured)
Astro Digital - Sphinx/Frazier, a 32kg microsatellite demonstrating Vestigo Aerospace's Spinnaker 3 dragsail. (Not Pictured)
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