SpaceX: "carpool" orders have been scheduled for 2025, and the possibility of using starships to carry out missions is being considered.
CTOnews.com, August 10, in a speech at a small satellite conference on August 9, Jarrod McLachlan, sales director of SpaceX's sharing program, revealed that the company's list is up to 2025, in other words, the company's launch missions in 2023 and 2024 are already saturated.
Jarrod McLachlan said it had launched more than 400 customer payloads through its series of transportation and "carpooling" missions and demonstrated "hundreds" of payload launches.
So far, SpaceX has carried out five Transporter missions, and another is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. The company expects to perform an average of about three transportation missions a year, all of which are in sun-synchronous orbit, but occasionally carpool with Starlink and other launch missions.
McLachlan said that although the gear is full recently, there should be some opportunities for some "stuck" passengers to find the last seat. "there are a lot of changes in the manifest, a lot of customers in and out."We are often able to make up for customers." In addition, launch brokers who purchase ports on Transporter launches usually have room for newcomers.
He said SpaceX has customers who have booked a sun-synchronous orbit mission until 2025 at the latest. The company also booked the Starlink mission, as well as the traditional "carpool" opportunity, that is, the launch of the main payload has excess capacity. There are also carpooling opportunities for geostationary transfer orbits and lunar missions.
CTOnews.com has learned that these "carpooling" missions have been using Falcon 9, but McLachlan said SpaceX is considering using larger starships to carpool.
"We are studying Starship's ride-sharing configuration and small satellite products." But the company is not ready to announce any specific ride-sharing opportunities. "the team is focused on the first flight."