Transporter-5
Among the 59 payloads on this SSO rideshare, PTD-3 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3) carried TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery), a CubeSat built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Within weeks of deployment, TBIRD demonstrated a 100 Gbps optical downlink to the ground — at the time the fastest space-to-ground data link ever achieved, and more than 1,000 times faster than conventional radio-frequency links.
LIFTOFF
MAY 25 2022launched fromSLC-40Canaveral
aboardFalcon 9 B5Transporter-5intoLEO
Booster
B1061.8
Landed on ground pad · LZ-1
Payloads · 32
- 01
ION SCV-006 Thrilling Thomas
CubeSat deployer
- 02
Sherpa-AC1
CubeSat deployer
- 03
Vigoride-3 (VR-3)
Space tug
- 04
GHGSat-C3 (Luca)
Earth observation
- 05
GHGSat-C4 (Penny)
Earth observation
- 06
GHGSat-C5 (Diako)
Earth observation
- 07
Hawk 5A, 5B, 5C
SIGINT
- 08
ICEYE x 5
Earth observation
- 09
ÑuSat x 4
Earth observation
- 10
Umbra-03
Earth observation
- 11
Agile Micro Sat
Technology demonstration
- 12
Armsat_1 (Urdaneta)
Earth observation
- 13
BroncoSat-1
Technology demonstration
- 14
Centauri-5
IoT
- 15
Cicero-2 x 2
GNSS radio occultation
- 16
CNCE Block 2 x 2
Technology demonstration
- 17
Connecta T1.1
IoT
- 18
CPOD A (Tyvak-0032)
Technology demonstration
- 19
CPOD B (Tyvak-0033)
Technology demonstration
- 20
Foresail-1
Technology demonstration
- 21
Guardian 1
Earth observation
- 22
Lemur-2 x 5
Earth observation
- 23
Omnispace Spark-2
IoT
- 24
Planetum 1
Education
- 25
Platform 1 (Shared Sat 2)
Technology demonstration
- 26
PTD-3 / TBIRD
Technology demonstration
- 27
SBUDNIC
Earth observation
- 28
SelfieSat
Education
- 29
SPiN-1 (MA61C)
PnP
- 30
VariSat-1C
Technology demonstration
- 31
FOSSASAT-2E x 7
IoT
- 32
Veery-FS1 (Canary Hatchling)
Technology demonstration