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December 31st, 2022
SpaceX is targeting 9:56 a.m. ET (14:56 UTC) on Tuesday, January 3 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Transporter-6 mission.
Image credit: SpaceX
Early next week, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will depart Florida – nothing too unusual.
However, this flight – the SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission – is the company’s sixth dedicated smallsat rideshare mission.
There will be 114 payloads on this flight, including CubeSats, microsats, picosats, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time.
A Planet SuperDove with the Boldly Go Campaign artwork laser etched onto its side panels.
Image credit: Planet Labs PBC
Among the payloads are Planet SuperDove satellites – 36 of them. Each satellite is equipped with eight spectral-bands and improved on-orbit capacity to reconnoiter the Earth for both civil and intelligence needs.
Artwork
A select number of the SuperDoves will be adorned with artwork and quotes that celebrate the legacy of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
Image credit: Roddenberry Estate
According to Planet, thanks to collaboration with The Roddenberry Foundation’s Boldly Go Campaign, five of the SuperDoves on this mission will have artwork laser-etched onto their side panels. The artwork was inspired by over 1,500 submissions to the Boldly Go campaign, which asked the world to share what gives them hope for humanity’s future.
To learn more, go to this video — Boldly Going: Planet and The Roddenberry Foundation Collaboration – at:
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