A number of other payloads also hitched a ride for assorted commercial and international customers, including for Arrow Science and Technology, Exolaunch, HawkEye 360, Maverick Space Systems, Sidus Space, Tomorrow Companies Inc., True Anomaly and Think Orbital. The Bandwagon series of missions is one of two rideshare programs offered by SpaceX to help small satellite operators get their spacecraft into orbit. The firm’s Transporter missions place payloads in a sun-synchronous orbit while Bandwagon delivers to a mid-inclination orbit. “The mid-inclination orbit fills in gaps for our customers that want to expand their coverage or complete unique mission objectives because changing the inclination of an orbit changes the way that a satellite moves around the Earth,”said Veronica “Ronnie” Foreman from SpaceX A mid-inclination orbit also provides a higher “revisit rate,” which means it flies over the same point on Earth more often than other types of orbits, Foreman added. Some payloads actually had more than one spacecraft. For example, ExoLaunch, based in Germany and the United States, boasted having 22 customer satellites, including 15 Cubesats and seven microsatellites. The firm created a special satellite deployment system for the Cubesats and microsatellites. Sign Up for the A.M. Report Keep up with Noozhawk's daily news coverage, delivered at 4:15 a.m. right to your inbox. Sign up This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The assorted craft for ExoLaunch on the Bandwagon-2 mission originated from countries including Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Djibouti, Finland, Mongolia, and the United States. ExoLaunch later confirmed successful deployment of the 22 satellites it was tasked with delivering. U.S. Space Force leaders cut a cake in celebration of the armed forces branch’s fifth birthday. Credit: