SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp., founded in 2002, is an American space technology company and a dominant launch provider. It designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, including the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Dragon spacecraft, and Starship. SpaceX partners with organizations like NASA and the United States Armed Forces and is known for its advancements in reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight, and satellite constellation technology like Starlink. Key words: launch provider, reusable rockets, space exploration, Starlink, Falcon, Dragon, Starship, NASA.
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SpaceX is the dominant launch provider in the SmallSat market at the 2026 SmallSat Symposium.
The proposed system would primarily use high-bandwidth optical links to communicate between satellites and to connect with SpaceX’s existing Starlink constellations.
The Department of Defense is developing a second industrial base to avoid reliance on SpaceX’s Starshield.
SpaceX is removing the Crew Access Arm from Launch Complex 39A to perform maintenance.
ELCOME was one of the first authorized resellers for SpaceX’s Starlink.
Momentus signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to conduct a rendezvous-and-proximity-operations demo mission on SpaceX’s upcoming Transporter-16 flight.
SpaceX is targeting no earlier than February 13 for Falcon 9's launch of NASA's Crew-12 due to elevated winds in the ascent corridor.
Spaceium flew an actuator on SpaceX’s Transporter‑15 mission in November and achieved 0.003‑degree rotation accuracy during its in‑space test.
SpaceX functions as both a NASA contractor that delivers exploration milestones and as a provider of lift, logistics and on-orbit infrastructure that can be repurposed for national-security uses.
SpaceX Crew-12 will lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida to the International Space Station on a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX is on contract to provide the human landing system that will ferry Artemis astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface.
Spacecium flew an actuator on SpaceX’s Transporter-15 mission in November that achieved 0.003-degree rotation accuracy when tested in orbit.
Kongsberg Satellite Services has a signed launch contract with SpaceX targeting a launch window in late 2027 for the first Hyperion satellites.
The Ariane 64 provides a heavy-lift alternative to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 for global satellite operators and European defense agencies.
Elon Musk stated that SpaceX has shifted focus to building a "self-growing" city on the Moon and described such a settlement as achievable in less than ten years while a comparable Mars outpost would take twenty or more.
SpaceX’s roadmap, as described by Elon Musk, assigns the Moon the role of initial priority while placing Mars on a parallel but initially lower-intensity development trajectory.
The communication on X indicates a different initial allocation of resources between lunar activities and Mars development within SpaceX’s roadmap.
SpaceX Falcon rockets are being used to place Department of War satellites into orbit.
William Gerstenmaier is SpaceX’s Vice President of Build & Flight Reliability.
SpaceX plans to strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years.