Launch Campaign Launch 

Provider Mission Name Launch Date

Deployment 

Status Rocket Mission Description Payload(s) Organization(s)

Cargo Resupply

ELaNa 38

DALI (Daily 

Atmospheric 

Ionospheric Limb 

Imager)

12/21/21 1/26/22 Falcon 9 This mission will use a 6U cubesat to study 

molecular oxygen density of Earth’s upper 

atmosphere to help understand the processes that 

affect the upper atmosphere and ionosphere.

The Daily Atmospheric 

Ionospheric Limb Imager

Aerospace Corporation

Cargo Resupply GASPACS (Get 

Away Special 

Passive Attitude 

Control Satellite)

12/21/21 Falcon 9 The 1U CubeSat is a technology demonstration 

mission designed to test inflatable structures in 

space. The project aims to present a possible 

solution to the limited capacity of spacecraft by 

providing an inflatable boom that can be packed 

into a small space and then extended into 

something much larger.

AeroBoom and camera Utah State University

Cargo Resupply PATCOOL 

(Passive Thermal 

Coating 

Observatory 

Operating in LowEarth Orbit)

12/21/21 Falcon 9 This mission will use a 3U to test the thermal 

samples when completely isolated from all sources 

of heat transfer aside from the Sun and deep 

space. A secondary objective is to test the a drag 

de-orbit device to modulate the drag area of a host 

CubeSat while maintaining passive 3-axis 

stabilization using aerodynamic and gravity gradient 

torques. 

Aluminum housing for 

containing samples and 

ADAMUS Laboratory’s 

drag de-orbit device

NASA's Kennedy Space Center, 

University of Florida 

Cargo Resupply TARGIT 

(Tethering And 

Ranging mission 

of the Georgia 

Institute of 

Technology)

12/21/21 Falcon 9 This project aims to act like a technology 

demonstration for more complex LiDAR imaging 

missions; a 3U cubesat will test on-orbit an imaging 

LiDAR (light detection and ranging) system capable 

of cm-level topographic mapping. The mission will 

accomplish this by tethering an inflatable target of 

known shape and reflectance that will serve to 

verify the performance of the imaging LiDAR and its 

supporting subsystems.

Optical imager Georgia Tech Research 

Corporation

Landsat 9

ELaNa 34

CUTE (Colorado 

Ultraviolet Transit 

Experiment)

9/27/21 9/27/21 Atlas V CUTE is a 6U spacecraft that will characterize the 

composition and mass-loss rates of exoplanet 

atmospheres by measuring how the NUV light from 

the host star is changed as the exoplanet transits in 

front of the star and passes through the planet’s 

atmosphere.

Near-ultraviolet (NUV) 

transmission 

spectroscopy

University of Colorado at Boulder

Landsat 9 CuPID (Boston 

University)

9/27/21 9/27/21 Atlas V The main objective of this mission is to use a 6U 

spacecraft to measure soft X-rays emitted from the 

process of charge-exchange when plasma from the 

solar wind collides with neutral atoms in the Earth’s 

distant atmosphere.

A soft X-ray imager, 

microdosimeter suite, and 

three-axis magnetometer

Boston University 

Cargo Resupply

ELaNa 37

CAPSat (Cool 

Annealing 

Payload Satellite)

8/29/21 10/12/21 Falcon 9 This is a 3U CubeSat will evaluate technologies for 

healing radiation damage in crystalline single 

photon detectors.

SPAD (single-photon 

avalanche detectors) 

quantum annealing 

payload

University of Illinois

Cargo Resupply PR-CuNaR2 

(Puerto Rico 

CubeSat 

NanoRocks-2)

8/29/21 10/12/21 Falcon 9 As the first Puerto Rican spacecraft, this 3U 

mission will study low-energy collisions in a space 

environment and will use a mechanically shaken 

device to study low-energy particle collisions.

GimmeRF (Gimme Radio 

Frequency) receiver and 

CARLO (Charge 

Analyzer Responsive to 

Local Oscillation) 

instrument. 

International American University 

of Puerto Rico - Bayamon 

Campus

Cargo Resupply Space Hauc

(Science Program 

Around 

Communications 

Engineering with 

High-Achieving 

Undergraduate 

Cadres)

8/29/21 10/12/21 Falcon 9 This is a 3U CubeSat educational mission intended 

primarily as a hands-on student training mission 

that will also demonstrate X-band beam steering 

from a CubeSat platform.

X-Band Phased Array 

Communications 

University of MassachusettsLowell 

Cargo Resupply ELaNa 36 RamSat 6/3/21 6/14/21 SpaceX 22 –

Falcon 9

This 2U CubeSat will capture images of forest 

regrowth, sending those images to ground control 

in Robertsville Middle Schools’ STEM Classroom 

using radio communication.

Multispectral and nearinfrared camerasOak Ridge Public School

(Robertsville Middle School)

Cargo Resupply ELaNa 33 IT-SPINS 

(IonosphericThermospheric 

Scanning 

Photometer for 

Ion-Neutral 

Studies)

2/20/21 6/29/2021 

22:50:00 

UTC

NG-15 –

Antares

This mission will provide the first two-dimensional 

(2D) tomographic imaging from a 3U research 

CubeSat, addressing the basic nature of the 

nocturnal ionosphere. Once deployed, the 3U 

CubeSat will commence a more than six-month 

mission of measuring the properties of Earth's 

atmosphere at the edge of outer space. 

CubeSat Tiny Ionospheric 

Photometer (CTIP) 

instrument

Montana State University, 

Applied Physics Laboratory at 

Johns Hopkins University

SpaceX Transporter 1 ELaNa 35 PTD-1 

(Pathfinder 

Technology 

Demonstrator 1)

1/24/21 1/24/2021 

01:16.28 

UTC from

Sherpa-FX 

dispenser

Falcon 9 This project will test the operation of a variety of 

novel technologies on five demonstration missions 

on a 6U CubeSat. PTD-1 is the first of five of these 

demonstrations that will test the HYDROS-C water 

thruster developed by Tethers Unlimited. 

Hydros-C propulsion 

system

NASA's Ames Research Center 

& Glen Research Center, 

Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems

SpaceX Transporter 1 Commercial 

Provider

VR3X 1/24/21 01/24/2021 

00:59:09 

UTC from 

Maverick’s 

Mercury 

Dispenser

Falcon 9 V-R3x consists of three 1U CubeSats aimed to 

demonstrate novel spacecraft swarm technologies 

and techniques for radio networking and navigation. 

This small scale demonstration will allow the 

implementation for future larger multi-spacecraft 

missions, enabling NASA to pursue its future 

science, technology, and exploration goals. 

COTS S-band SemTech 

SX1280 Transceiver

NASA’s Ames Research Center, 

Stanford University, and 

Carnegie Mellon University