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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Exolaunch is having success with the SpaceX transporter program, but sees that there is still not enough launch supply for small satellites.
SEOPS purchased a Falcon 9 launch from SpaceX for a dedicated rideshare mission to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
Inversion Space plans to launch Ray on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 rideshare mission, which has been delayed potentially to January.
NASA requested in 2023 that SpaceX and Blue Origin develop cargo versions of their crewed human landing systems that are being developed for Artemis III, Artemis IV, and Artemis V.
SEOPS is acquiring capacity on unspecified additional SpaceX launches through 2028.
Gen. Chance Saltzman visited SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica and attended the sixth Starship test flight on 2024-11-19.
All of the missions for the next two years on the SpaceX Transporter program are fully booked.
SEOPS signed a contract with SpaceX for the dedicated rideshare Falcon 9 mission at Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen on 2024-11-19.
NASA intends to award Blue Origin and SpaceX additional work under their existing contracts to develop landers that will deliver large pieces of equipment and infrastructure to the lunar surface.
NASA intends for SpaceX’s Starship cargo lander to deliver a pressurized rover developed by JAXA to the lunar surface no earlier than fiscal year 2032 in support of Artemis VII and later missions.
SpaceX successfully launched Starship from Texas to complete the sixth flight test.
Exotrail deployed a first satellite from its spacevan in February 2024 following a launch on a SpaceX Transporter mission in 2023-11-01.
T.I. Weintraub, chief growth officer with ATLAS Space Operations, projected that SpaceX will have 12,000 satellites by 2030.
A second 2024-11-15 letter from Reed and Shaheen was sent to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall raising concerns about relying on SpaceX for space access and communications.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the NSIL GSAT-N2 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, 2024-11-18 at 1:31 p.m. ET.
SpaceX will attempt the next test flight of its Starship vehicle on Tuesday afternoon.
U-Space’s two satellites are 12U small satellites scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission in early 2025.
SpaceX operates the Transporter-13 dedicated rideshare mission that will carry U-Space’s two 12U satellites.
The planned Tender Offer would value SpaceX at around $250,000,000,000.
SpaceX is set to mount a Tender Offer in December to sell existing shares at around $135 (€128m) each.