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Transporter-5 Space X smallsat rideshare mission with the Falcon-9 rocket carrying all 59 satellites. - Courtesy of Space X

The UF-spinoff Satlantis launches its first 16U CubeSat with the iSIM-90 camera designed at the UF Department of Astronomy

At the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. From left to right: Juan Tomas (Satlantis CEO), Angela John (Director of Innovation at Williams), Rafael Guzmán (Dept. of Astronomy, University of Florida)

On Wednesday, May 25 at 2:35 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-5, SpaceX’s fifth dedicated smallsat rideshare program mission, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. On board this mission, a 16U CubeSat with the iSIM-90 camera designed at the Department of Astronomy, UF was successfully deployed. On Friday, May 27, the first successful S-band communication with the satellite was received and researchers are working on the received data.

 

Courtesy of SpaceX. Deployment of the 16U CubeSat can be watched at 1:15:36!