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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NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin closed the hatch between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station at 5:05 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, 2024-10-23.
Gregg Burgess intends to purchase a Starlink optical terminal to enable interoperability with the Starlink or Starshield constellations when customers require such interoperability.
The NROL-167 mission is suspected to launch a fourth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
SpaceX launched the final batch of OneWeb satellites into high orbits to complete OneWeb's constellation and provide in-orbit spares.
Stoke Space is developing additional launch capacity intended to provide an alternative to SpaceX.
End-to-end integration is easier for SpaceX compared to other companies that must include gateways and terminals.
SpaceX's Starship is expected to significantly impact what can be placed into space.
Scott Rodriguez, VP of Government Programs and NASA HUNCH Program Manager at Voyager Space, noted that discussions of vertical integration often reference SpaceX but emphasized NASA's different operational model.
SpaceX's financial resources enable it to undertake in-house component production, which is impractical for most other entities.
SpaceX launched 20 spare OneWeb satellites on 2024-10-20.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 Launch Service Task Orders totaling $733,566,001 to SpaceX.
SpaceX has launched more than 7,000 broadband satellites for its Starlink LEO network.
SpaceX launched the OneWeb Launch 20 mission to low-Earth orbit on Saturday, 2024-10-19 at 10:13 p.m. PT.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 20 of OneWeb’s microsatellites on the OneWeb Launch 20 mission.
SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy vehicle conducted a flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on 2024-10-13 that demonstrated the Super Heavy booster returning to the launch site and being caught by mechanical arms attached to the launch tower.
The two National Reconnaissance Office missions awarded to SpaceX will launch on Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The seven Space Development Agency launches awarded to SpaceX are for the agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer.
SpaceX was awarded contracts for nine launches under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program.
SpaceX completed two successful launches for the Tranche 0 portion of the Space Development Agency’s constellation.