Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Mexico's Alvaro Obregón borough plans to send first locally assembled microsatellite into orbit this week on SpaceX's Transporter-15 mission, a rideshare launch scheduled Wednesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The launch window is open between 1:18 p.m. EST and 2:15 p.m.

The MXÁO-1 Earth-observation satellite was developed through a collaboration between the borough government, the University Cluster based in western Mexico City and the Mexico-based applied science firm Macrolab.

It will ride to orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket as part of SpaceX's Smallsat Rideshare Program, which carries dozens of small payloads from multiple countries on a single launch.

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