{"id":789190,"date":"2026-10-02T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789190\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:34:10","slug":"spacex-launches-transporter-18-rideshare-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789190\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Transporter-18 rideshare mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX launched its latest rideshare mission Oct. 1, carrying a wide variety of spacecraft even as the industry struggles to deal with the impending end of such missions.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now to read<br \/>3 free articles this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly Editor\u2019s Choice, SpaceNews This Week and Opinions newsletters. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jeff-foust\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790908450_665_jeff_foust-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nHe earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor\u2019s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jeff-foust\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jeff Foust\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX launched its latest rideshare mission Oct. 1, carrying a wide variety of spacecraft even as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[259956,230662,220811,9668,259957,105228,259958,92,2383,34446,148959,90,1957,416,412,259959,98396,259960,145622,56,54,55,259961],"class_list":["post-789190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-cesiumastro","tag-cowboy-space","tag-exolaunch","tag-falcon-9","tag-ghgsat","tag-iceye","tag-iride","tag-nasa","tag-planet","tag-rideshare","tag-satellogic","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-star-catcher-industries","tag-starfish-space","tag-takeme2space","tag-tomorrow-io","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-unseenlabs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}