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 missions under these contracts are projected to launch in late 2025 and 2026.
The Space Development Agency is utilizing SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch small satellites into a low Earth orbit constellation.
The SpaceX contracts under NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 are worth $733,500,000.
Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas and SpaceX’s Starbase site are examples of spaceports owned and operated by a single company for specific vehicles such as New Shepard and Starship/Super Heavy.
NASA will use SpaceX’s Crew Dragon for the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station in 2025.
NASA will use SpaceX’s Crew Dragon for the Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station in 2025.
SpaceX postponed a planned OneWeb launch from Vandenberg after a mishap occurred during the landing of a second stage associated with the Crew-9 mission.
Elon Musk is identified as the central character in Eric Berger's book 'Reentry,' which details SpaceX's rise to dominance in the space market.
SpaceX demonstrated returning the Starship booster directly to the launchpad during the October 13 flight.
SpaceX’s fifth fully integrated Starship Super Heavy launch on October 13 completed both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship second stage flight and achieved soft return objectives for both stages.
SpaceX engineers appear to have resolved most upper-stage heat shield issues encountered on previous Starship flights as of the October 13 mission.
The FAA announced it would allow Falcon 9 launches to resume after SpaceX resolved the engine burn issue that lasted a half-second longer than expected.
SpaceX is currently advancing its Starship program and Starlink constellation.
SpaceX performed a precise soft splashdown of the Starship upper stage during the October 13 flight.
SpaceX launched its fifth integrated Starship/Super Heavy vehicle from its Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas.
SpaceX technicians spent more than 12,000 hours replacing Starship’s entire thermal protection system with newer-generation tiles, a backup ablative layer, and additional protections between the flap structures.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was grounded two weeks ago due to an anomaly during a deorbit burn at the end of the Crew-9 mission.
SpaceX technicians spent more than 12,000 hours replacing Starship’s entire thermal protection system with newer-generation tiles.
SpaceX is testing its Starlink Direct-to-Cellular (D2C) telephony system in New Zealand.
The Brown University cubesat was deployed off a SpaceX rocket in May 2022 to study space debris.