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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Liftoff of SpaceX's Starship occurred at 5:37 pm EST.
SpaceX's Starship upper stage failed to complete its test flight due to an anomaly.
SpaceX is targeting a shared Falcon 9 launch on January 15 for the ispace Japan and Firefly Aerospace Moon lander duo.
Both Blue Origin and SpaceX conducted studies for NASA on utilizing their lunar landers for Mars Sample Return.
SpaceX is developing a new Crew Dragon spacecraft, the fifth and final one in its fleet, for the Crew-10 mission.
SpaceX will conduct the next test flight of its Starship vehicle in early 2025.
SpaceX plans to test several upgrades to its Starship vehicle on its next test flight scheduled for as soon as 2025-01-10.
SpaceX performed 134 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches in 2024, up from 96 in 2023.
SpaceX planned to increase Falcon launch rates to 175 to 180 launches in 2025.
Of SpaceX’s 134 missions in 2024, 62 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, 26 launched from Kennedy Space Center, and 46 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
SpaceX planned to ramp up Starship launches in 2025, including the first truly orbital Starship missions.
SpaceX completed 134 commercial and government missions in 2024.
SpaceX entered 2024 seeking to launch 148 Falcon rockets, including four launches carried over from 2023.
SpaceX accounted for 88 of 93 launches from the Eastern Range in Florida, which includes Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.
The Space Force awarded SpaceX access to SLC-6, also known as Slick Six, in 2023 after the final launch of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 from the site.
The EIS includes two options that are identical except for which hangar facility SpaceX would use at SLC-6, along with a no-action alternative.
Two new Iceye satellites launched on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission on 2024-12-21.
Spacecoin’s debut connectivity satellite launched on SpaceX’s 2024-12-21 Falcon 9 rideshare mission to low Earth orbit.
Jackal launched on 2024-12-21 on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission.
The Jackal AOV was deployed into orbit as part of SpaceX’s Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.