Spaceflight Inc. has announced that a brand new Orbital Transfer Vehicle, Sherpa-FX, will fly on a dedicated rideshare mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This is the first of many next-generation transfer vehicles created by Spaceflight Inc.
The Sherpa-FX is a next-generation transfer vehicle capable of multiple deployments, providing independent and detailed deployment telemetry, and featuring a flexible payload interface. It is based on the Sherpa payload adapter used on the SSO-A mission in December 2018, which successfully delivered 64 spacecraft to orbit, also on a Falcon 9 launch.