SpaceX Falcon 9 Indian Payloads were successfully deployed in orbit during SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission, marking a significant development for India’s private space sector. The launch took place from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Dhruva Space’s Launch Expeditions for Aspiring Payloads (LEAP-2) carried multiple Indian payloads, including an in-orbit demonstration mission and a star tracker developed by Sodern. SatLeo Labs’ TAPAS-1, described as India’s dedicated commercial CubeSat-category thermal payload, also travelled aboard the mission. TakeMe2Space contributed a 14-kg satellite featuring 17 trillion operations per second of onboard computing capacity, 2 TB of storage and a multispectral imager. The capabilities are designed for applications including agricultural monitoring, mining and supply-chain intelligence. The Transporter-18 mission carried 130 payloads in total, according to the report.
SpaceX Falcon 9: Indian Satellites Reach Orbit in Major Mission
