Teams encapsulated 32 payloads ahead of Falcon 9’s launch of the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida → spacex.com/launches/bandwago…

Oct 17, 2026 · 3:39 PM UTC

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Looks like Starfall is tagging along on this one.
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So excited for launch day!!! Can’t wait to see these payloads head to orbit and watch Falcon light up the Florida sky on its way to space! ✨🌎🔥🛰️🚀
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Thirty-two payloads sharing one fairing. That's the most organized carpool Florida has ever seen.
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Thirty two passengers and not one of them asked for the window seat
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Pretty cool. 32 dreams coming to fruition.
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Damn, I have no idea what that is, but it’s gorgeous. 🇺🇸
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the capsule on top is the quiet headline. first public look at starfall and it shows up in a rideshare photo
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STARFALLL for the first time in action 👀 pretty neat
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All tucked in 🚀
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32 payloads and not one of them is a frog. todd is not impressed 🐸
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32 payloads means 32 customers all hitting their ready date on the same day. Falcon 9 makes the launch look routine, yet the real work is the fit checks, interface tests and paperwork for every one of them. I guess Starship rideshare could end up limited by integration crews rather than mass.
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That's one packed carpool!
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Starfall is that big?!
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Is it going to be streaming till reentry I mean the Starfall
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All that carry on baggage... Ryanair should take note...
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Imagine being stuck in a rideshare with 31 strangers for eternity.
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It is nothing less than phenomenal how rapidly SpaceX’s technology is advancing. Thanks to Elon and your team.
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32 payloads, one fairing. The separation sequencing on a rideshare like this is ops discipline at scale.
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A simple follow-up list linking each payload to its operator's mission update would be handy. With 32 sharing the ride, it would make the next chapter much easier for us to follow. 🚀
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32 payloads in one ride. the most efficient carpool since bengaluru office cabs
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I hope my lucky penny made it.
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bandwagon is the fun one physics wise the free speed you get from earth spinning works out to 465 m/s times cos of your inclination, doesnt matter where you launch from 45 degrees out of the cape gets about 329 m/s for free. transporter 18 went to 97.4 sso and that orbit actually charges you about 60 so roughly a 390 m/s swing just from which way you point the rocket, no wonder they run a mid inclination ride
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Thirty-two payloads sharing one fairing might be the most underrated flex in spaceflight right now. The deploy timeline packs the main drop-offs into about 12 minutes, everything from tiny cubesats to Varda's W-Series 7, a capsule that's built to come back down. And the booster under all of it is on its 19th flight, with Crew-9 and Blue Ghost already on its resume. Which payload on that manifest is everyone most curious about?
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32 payloads in one fairing. That's not a rideshare, that's a minibus to orbit.
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32 payloads on one ride. Falcon 9 keeps making getting to space look routine, love to see it.
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rideshare is the most underrated thing spacex does. a lot of small sat companies get to orbit this way
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Two return capsules on one rideshare: Starfall on its 2nd demo and Varda's W-7. Down-mass is turning into its own market. Is Starfall carrying real cargo this time, or is demo 2 still mostly about the heat shield and recovery?
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32 payloads on one ride. Best carpool in the business. What's the strangest thing anyone's sent up on a rideshare?
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I hope the weather clears up so I can see it. 🚀😊
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Rideshare missions like this are quietly the biggest unlock in the industry. One launch, 32 different customers, and the per-payload cost drops to where universities and startups can afford it. Reusability is the headline, but this is the market it created.
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The payload I'm watching on this one is Varda's W-Series 7: a PROTAC cancer drug flying to see whether microgravity crystallises it into a form that dissolves better. As a surgeon, getting a drug into the patient is often the harder half. Good luck tomorrow.
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Für Zuschauer in der Schweiz: Das einstündige Startfenster am Montag öffnet um 12:30 Uhr.
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Satellites used to need a whole rocket each. Now 32 of them carpool to orbit and split the fare.
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19th flight for B1085, after Crew-9 and Blue Ghost, now carrying 32 payloads. At what flight count do reused boosters stop being news? In my opinion, never.🔥
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32 payloads is wild, space carpooling hits different
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32 payloads on one ride like its a group carpool to orbit. Never gets old. Go Falcon 9
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