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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The SpaceX CRS-31 mission for NASA will advance cold welding techniques for on-the-spot spacecraft hull repairs.
SpaceX is targeting a Falcon 9 launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral for Tuesday, 2024-11-12 to deploy Group 6-68 of Starlink smallsats with a launch window from 3:26 a.m. to 7:26 a.m. PST.
SpaceX will conduct a suborbital flight of the Sixth Integrated Flight Test of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle on Monday, 2024-11-18 from Orbital Launch Mount A at SpaceX Starbase, Texas with a launch window from 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. PST.
SpaceX is seeking regulatory permission to provide commercial direct-to-smartphone services in the United States and elsewhere.
SpaceX is targeting a Falcon 9 launch from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on Friday, 2024-11-08 for Group 9-10 of 20 Starlink satellites.
ASTROBEAT arrived at the space station via SpaceX’s 31st Commercial Resupply Services mission for NASA.
SpaceX completed 96 launches in 2023.
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, 2024-11-06 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink Group 6-77 satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX scheduled the sixth integrated Starship/Super Heavy flight from its Starbase facility at Boca Chica, Texas, for the afternoon of 2024-11-18.
Redwire launched 12 additional PIL-BOX units onboard the SpaceX-31 cargo resupply mission to the ISS with partners Bristol Myers Squibb and ExesaLibero Pharma.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2024-11-07 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink Group 6-77 satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX is targeting Friday, 2024-11-08 for a Falcon 9 launch of 20 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX launched a cargo Dragon mission to the International Space Station.
NASA awarded SpaceX a contract worth up to $843,000,000 in June to develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV).
Anuvu plans to provide capacity from low Earth orbit using satellites that SpaceX is slated to start deploying in mid-2026 for Canadian GEO operator Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation.
The Lane 1 program is valued at $5,600,000,000 over five years and has already awarded its first task orders to SpaceX.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched CRS-31, NASA’s resupply mission to the International Space Station, on Monday, 2024-11-04, at 9:29 p.m. ET.
On 2024-09-22, Elon Musk wrote that SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years and that crewed missions could be possible in four years if those uncrewed Starships all land safely.
Former President Donald Trump has suggested directing a highly accelerated program of human missions to Mars using vehicles developed by SpaceX.
SpaceX targeted a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday, 2024-11-03.