Fire detectors, military tech demos, 3D printers among SpaceX rideshare payloads launching on midnight Falcon 9 flight

A SpaceX Falcon 9, launched from California, ferried dozens of customer satellites from around the world into a Sun-synchronous Earth orbit shortly after midnight local time on Tuesday. The Transporter-17 mission, with 81 payloads aboard, is part of the company’s Smallsat Rideshare Program, which also includes the mid-inclination Bandwagon missions as well as the dawn-dusk Sun-synchronous orbit Twilight flight. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 8)