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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One NZ promoted the proposed satellite direct-to-cell service as being provided in collaboration with SpaceX.
The contract between One NZ and SpaceX requires SpaceX to operate, own, and launch a fleet of low Earth orbit satellites and ground network infrastructure to provide satellite direct-to-cell services to One NZ.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the TD7 mission on 2024-11-17 at 5:28 p.m. EST (2228 UTC) from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Under a 2023 launch agreement, SpaceX will provide launch services for a planned 2024 launch of Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) and several Mission Extension Pods (MEPs).
Impulse Space signed a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support the development and deployment of Impulse Space’s Helios and Mira vehicles.
Northrop Grumman and SpaceX have a launch agreement under which SpaceX will provide launch services for a planned 2024 launch of the MRV and several Mission Extension Pods (MEPs).
SpaceX will launch the Northrop Grumman-built geostationary communications satellite Optus X for Australian satellite operator Optus on Sunday, 2024-11-17 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center between 1:29 PM and 3:27 PM PST.
Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, advocates that launch regulations focus on outcomes rather than specific procedures and be significantly shortened to improve readability and usability.
Impulse Space signed a contract with SpaceX on 2024-11-14 for the Falcon 9 launches carrying Helios.
Impulse Space purchased three Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX for its Helios transfer vehicle for missions starting in 2026, including one mission for the U.S. Space Force.
Baron Capital has returned seven times its money since it started investing in SpaceX in 2017.
SpaceX has the capability to fuel payloads with liquid oxygen and methane on the pad at Launch Complex 39A, a capability used for the IM-1 lunar lander mission for Intuitive Machines that launched on a Falcon 9 in February 2024.
AST SpaceMobile still needs permission to commercially provide its direct-to-smartphone services in the United States alongside other competitors including SpaceX.
SpaceX plans to fully recover a Starship sometime in the next six months and to conduct 25 launches in 2025.
SpaceX launched 20 Starlink satellites including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 9:23 p.m. PT.
SES operates a Luxembourg-based fleet that includes medium Earth orbit and geostationary satellites and competes with SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites in low Earth orbit.
SpaceX targeted a Falcon 9 launch of 20 Starlink satellites from SLC-4E on Wednesday, 2024-11-13 with liftoff targeted for 9:23 p.m. PT and additional opportunities available on Thursday, 2024-11-14 starting at 7:57 p.m. PT.
Firefly Aerospace scheduled the Blue Ghost lunar lander to launch in the fourth quarter but has not provided a more specific launch date due to uncertainties in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch manifest.
NASA selected SpaceX in 2021 to launch the SPHEREx mission.
Mission 2 is scheduled to launch no earlier than January 2025 in coordination with SpaceX.