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 launched 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 from California on July 2, 2026.
Open Cosmos will launch the Posidònia and Hyperion GR-1 satellites on SpaceX’s Transporter-17 shared launch mission in July.
NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.6 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract in 2014.
SpaceX’s Transporter-17 mission will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX’s Transporter-17 mission will carry 49 satellites.
Weather Stream launched GEMS2-Amethyst on March 30 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 16 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
SEOPS secured two private, dedicated Falcon 9 launch service agreements with SpaceX.
SEOPS completed the final physical processing and hardware integration of 10 customer spacecraft for SpaceX’s Transporter-17 dedicated small satellite rideshare mission.
SpaceX has been formally awarded the launch service for ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission on a Falcon Heavy rocket.
Derek Huerta’s SpaceX equity position after SpaceX’s public offering provided him with resources for Eclipse Space.
NASA has spent $17 million to accelerate SpaceX flights originally planned for Starliner.
SpaceX has completed 12 crewed missions to the International Space Station since 2020.
MARMOTSat will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base no earlier than July 2026.
A 2022 modification added eight additional post-certification missions to SpaceX’s Commercial Crew contract.
SpaceX’s original $2.6 billion Commercial Crew contract has grown to $4.9 billion.
SpaceX received human-rating certification for Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 in 2020.
Eclipse Space is led by Derek Huerta, the former manager of satellite payload engineering at SpaceX.
NASA transferred Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon mission, which returned them to Earth on March 18, 2025.
Eclipse Space is a new company founded in Redmond, Washington, by former SpaceX veterans who helped build and scale the Starlink constellation.
Adolfo Urso said SpaceX’s market capitalization is comparable to the GDP of large European countries such as Italy and France.