Cygnus NG-18 S. S. Sally Ride

Cygnus carried the BIRDS-5 trio of national-first satellites: PearlAfricaSat-1 — Uganda's first satellite — and ZIMSAT-1, Zimbabwe's first, plus Japan's TAKA. All three were built by students of the originating countries at Japan's Kyushu Institute of Technology, extending the BIRDS programme's record of training national space agencies through cubesat development.