CubeSat dispensers and multi-payload adapters
Hardware that holds satellites on a rocket and releases them
Maverick Space Systems
San Luis Obispo, California company that books rideshare launches for small satellites, builds the dispensers and adapters that hold them on the rocket, and handles testing and integration. It supplied the dispenser stacks for a Space Development Agency launch of 21 satellites.
Products, by altitude
Launch · From the pad to orbit
In service In service Rideshare launch integration and mission management
Books launches and readies small satellites for liftoff
Milestones
- Oct 2026 Supported nine customer spacecraft on SpaceX's Transporter-18, including NASA CubeSats manifested under NASA's VADR contract and Starfish Space's first full-scale Otter. Company statement1
- Oct 2025 Its dispenser stack of four ESPA-style adapters plus a top slot carried 21 Lockheed Martin satellites for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer on a Falcon 9. Company statement2
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