The first flight of the Spyder hypersonic booster occurred Friday, June 13th, 2025 at the Navy launch facility at White Sands Missile Range. All mission goals were accomplished. The rocket carried 700 pounds of classified payload for Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Navy. The carbon composite first stage is proprietary case bonded Bates grain system that is configurable for one to ten fuel grains for use in first and second stage configurations. The S19 guidance package can be configured in ascent or ascent/descent modes for missions where high accuracy is required.

Spyder was specifically designed to support hypersonic missions reaching speeds of Mach 10. The launch vehicle is the result of an eight-year collaboration between UP Aerospace, Cesaroni Aerospace, NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The Spyder third and forth stages were ground tested in 2020 under a development program with NASA MSFC in Huntsville and will be used on future missions as the vehicle continues to evolve as a multi-role launch system. The SRMs are being produced by Cesaroni Aerospace Incorporated at the Bowling Green Florida and Space Port America facilities. Vehicle integration and launch services are provided by Up Aerospace of Denver Colorado.