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Pandora is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers SmallSat mission, designed to observe at least twenty transiting exoplanets with a 0.45-metre telescope collecting simultaneous visible and near-infrared data. Its goal is to separate stellar contamination from true atmospheric absorption signatures, sharpening exoplanet composition measurements that depend on transit spectroscopy.

SpaceX's inaugural Twilight dedicated rideshare mission to low Earth orbit.

launched fromSLC-4EVandenberg

aboardFalcon 9 B5TwilightintoLEO

Payloads · 16

  • 01

    Pandora

    Visible Astronomy

  • 02

    Hawk 13A-C

    SIGINT

  • 03

    ICEYE X x 2

    Earth observation

  • 04

    Umbra-12

    Earth observation

  • 05

    Acadia x 2

    Earth observation

  • 06

    HyMS

  • 07

    AETHER x 10

  • 08

    MINAS x 8 (Lemur-2)

  • 09

    Hydra-2

  • 10

    SPARCS

    Space telescope

  • 11

    Flamingo 1

  • 12

    CarbSAR IOD

  • 13

    BlackCAT

    Space telescope

  • 14

    Dcubed-1/Araqys-D1

  • 15

    Tomorrow S10-S11

    Meteorology

  • 16

    Conecta-IoT x 4

last updatedJan 19, 2026