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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Fleet plans to deploy three additional satellites in the first half of 2025 over two separate SpaceX launches.
SpaceX deployed AST SpaceMobile’s first five in-house-built Block 1 commercial BlueBird satellites in September.
The Vega C return to flight followed the retirement of Ariane 5 and delays in the introduction of Ariane 6, contributing to a European launcher shortfall that required use of SpaceX Falcon 9 launches for key science and navigation spacecraft.
SpaceX conducted more than 120 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches so far 2024, providing a contrast in flight rates with European launch providers.
SpaceX launched the SiriusXM SXM-9 mission on a Falcon 9 to geosynchronous transfer orbit on Thursday, 2024-12-05 at 11:10 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Artemis 3 will feature the first crewed landing of the Artemis exploration campaign using SpaceX’s Starship vehicle.
SpaceX conducted more than 120 orbital launches 2024 using its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy vehicles.
Jared Isaacman commanded and funded two private astronaut missions flown on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon: Inspiration4 in September 2021 and Polaris Dawn in September 2024.
Telesat has contracted 14 launches from SpaceX starting in mid-2026 to deploy all 198 Lightspeed satellites within a year.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2024-12-05 for the launch of the SiriusXM SXM-9 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit.
The first commercial BentoBox mission is scheduled to launch in late 2025 on a SpaceX rideshare mission and will spend two weeks in orbit.
The EU plans to propose new requirements on space sustainability that could apply to companies like SpaceX.
SpaceX has conducted five Falcon 9 launches for the European Space Agency and the European Commission since July 2023.
NROL-126 was the fifth launch of the National Reconnaissance Office’s proliferated architecture of imaging satellites built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman.
NASA and its international partners will receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, 2024-12-05 for its return to Earth.
The National Reconnaissance Office partnered with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX for the Falcon 9 launch of the NROL-126 mission on 2024-11-30 at 12:10 a.m. PT.
The Dragon spacecraft arrived at the orbiting laboratory on 2024-11-05 after launching 2024-11-04 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission.
Earlier on 2024-11-30, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida carrying 24 Starlink satellites.
Exolaunch integrated and deployed 83 satellites into orbit across Bandwagon-1, Transporter-10, and Transporter-11 rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2024 and two dedicated missions with Rocket Lab and ESA’s Ariane 6 maiden flight.
ESA and the European Commission used SpaceX to launch several science and navigation spacecraft since last year during a period described as a launcher crisis in Europe.