SEOPS: The Year in Review

A year of growth, innovation, and bold steps forward in launch and deployment services

As we wrap up 2025, the SEOPS team is taking a moment to reflect on a year defined by momentum. From multiple successful rideshare missions to major advances in launch access and deployer technology, we continued to push boundaries alongside our incredible customers and partners. Together, we delivered new spacecraft to orbit, unlocked new launch opportunities, and expanded the infrastructure needed for a more responsive space future.

Here’s a look at what made this year one to celebrate.

Mission Success- Four Transporter Campaigns

The heart of our year was spent where we thrive — on orbit.

In 2025, SEOPS supported four major SpaceX rideshare missions: Transporter-12, 13, 14, and 15, plus our work on NASA’s TRACERS mission. Across these launches, we delivered payloads from a diverse global community — commercial operators, defense customers, university programs, and emerging space nations. Satellites we integrated this year represented more than a dozen countries. Every mission brought unique engineering challenges and meaningful outcomes. And every deployment was another reminder of why we do what we do: to help innovators get to space reliably, efficiently, and on time.

Industry Partners and Unique Missions

We continue to partner with the best in the business, and our collaboration with 

Maverick Space and ISIS continues to provide the best launch support for our customers. We were happy to support missions like Sat Gus – the first “selfies in space” mission launched by Crunchlabs, an initiative by Mark Rober. SEOPS also integrated the payload for the EPIC Athena mission, a DOD demonstration of rapid payload reconfigurability architecture. 

Expanding Our Product Portfolio

This year we continued to expand the tools that enable our customers to fly their way.

Highlights include: 

Keystone: It was the debut of Keystone, our game changing deployment system, 

Keystone also brought forth our new partnership with AJG, who manufactures our multi-size deployers at scale. 

Equalizer Flex – a versatile new deployer designed to support larger form-factor CubeSats with superior mission configurability

These systems give customers more flexibility to right-size their deployment strategy. 

This focus on hardware innovation ensures that no matter the spacecraft configuration, SEOPS can provide the ideal deployment solution — tailored, flight-proven, and backed by our integration expertise.

Expanded Services and New Launch Opportunities

In 2025, SEOPS expanded both the scope and structure of the services we provide to customers. We partnered with Digantara to offer early spacecraft detection and monitoring as an integrated service across applicable missions, adding an additional layer of situational awareness during the critical early phases of flight.

We also introduced LaunchLock Prime, SEOPS’ programmatic launch services framework for customers planning multiple missions, constellation deployments, or non-standard launch profiles. LaunchLock Prime enables coordinated capacity planning, schedule assurance, and consistent mission execution across a customer’s broader launch roadmap—reducing risk and complexity without requiring customers to build internal launch infrastructure.

Alongside service expansion, we continued to broaden our launch access portfolio. In 2025, SEOPS added European launch capacity through a dedicated Spectrum mission with Isar Aerospace, while advancing DarkStar—SEOPS’ upcoming rideshare mission to GTO-class orbits. Together, these offerings extend customer access beyond standard LEO rideshare, supporting missions with more demanding orbital requirements.

Through our LaunchLock programs, customers can secure launch windows years in advance, gaining flexibility, predictability, and optionality as mission schedules evolve. This combination of expanded services and diversified capacity reflects SEOPS’ commitment to providing reliable, scalable access to space—wherever our customers need to go.

A New Look

Our growth prompted a new look. A new website and a new logo reflected the change we’ve experienced and set us up to be a brand to watch. Our website is the place to go for the latest news and detailed information on what SEOPS offers. Our new logo reflects the dynamic nature of our industry, and has been a hit with customers. 

Speaking of customers, it was a great year to connect in person with so many. With our sponsorships at SmallSat in Salt Lake City, UT and at SpaceTech Expo Europe in Bremen, Germany, we had the opportunity to showcase our products, team and company brand face to face. We value these opportunities for building community, putting faces to names and seeing folks in real life we’ve gotten to know over video calls. Our customers always come first, and we enjoy any chance to sit down with them and hear their stories and challenges first hand, so we can better serve them.

While we celebrate the success we’ve had in 2025, our (growing!) team is already looking ahead to 2026. We’ve got a lot planned, so stay tuned and see where SEOPS can take you.