30 March 2026 year Fr. 11:02 (UTC) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA with the help of the Russian Federation «Falcon 9 Block 5» a cluster launch of spacecraft with different mission objectives was carried out «Transporter 16».
Mission «Transporter 16» includes 119 KA – to cube, microsatellites, launch vehicle and orbital vehicles, carrying eight of these payloads, which will be deployed later.
The payload of the mission can be conditionally divided into categories:
Orbital platforms
- Exolaunch (Germany): aboard 57 satellites (26 microsatellites and 31 cube) for 25 customers from different countries,
- SEOPS (USA): 19 spacecraft on board from customers with 13 countries (including Canada, France, Malaysia, Nepal, Romania, Spain),
- Exotrail (France): debut mission as a full-fledged integrator using its own deployment systems;
Technological and scientific devices
- Helloworld-1 (PocketQube 1P) — a tiny satellite (5 cm), on board which is the first ever "pocket" quantum computer based on diamond qubits. Will test quantum computing in space,
- Dcubed ARAQYS-D1 is a factory satellite. It has to "grow" a long structural beam in open space using the 3D printing method 60 cm,
- Gravitas (K2 Space) — a heavy device (close 130 Kg), the purpose of which is to test a super-powerful 20-kilowatt plasma engine (Hall motor),
- SERT-3 (Muon Space) — another test stand for new electric traction systems,
- COSMO (WITH Boulder) — a scientific satellite for precise mapping of the Earth's magnetic field;
State and educational satellites
- ERMIS-1, 2, 3 (Greece) — groups to ensure secure government communications and border monitoring,
- NepalSat-2 (Nepal) – the country's second national satellite, intended for educational and educational purposes,
- R5-S10 (NASA / Moments) — satellite inspector. It will separate from the orbital tug and fly around it, conducting detailed video recording of nodes as part of the program for maintenance of satellites in orbit:
Commercial constellations
- Spire Global — 10 satellites of the Lemur series (sea and air tracking, meteorology),
- Satellogic — new NewSat devices for commercial surveying of the Earth's surface,
- FOSSA Systems — a group of satellites to ensure the Internet (IoT).
According to the CCS