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SpaceX launched Transporter-17 on July 7, extending its rideshare missions, but industry rivals warn the future of the Transporter program is unclear, describing the outlook as panicked.
SpaceX launched 81 payloads from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Transporter-17 rideshare mission, with the Falcon 9’s first stage landing on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You about 8.5 minutes after liftoff as the upper stage continued delivering payloads to low Earth orbit; among the satellites was CAS500-4 from South Korea. The mission marked SpaceX’s 79th Falcon 9 launch of 2026 as it advances satellite deployments to orbit.