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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SpaceX is expected to return Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to Earth in early 2025.
The original VIPER mission budget allocated $433,500,000 for the rover and $235,600,000 for launch services to be provided by Astrobotic and SpaceX.
NASA issued contracts for the development of Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon in mid-September 2014 as part of the CCtCap program.
Boeing's CCtCap contract was worth $4.2 billion, while SpaceX's was valued at $2.6 billion.
SpaceX deployed Lynk Global’s two latest pizza-box-sized satellites during a Falcon 9 rideshare mission on 2024-03-04.
SpaceX has launched more than 100 satellites for a rival direct-to-phone service that it plans to begin rolling out 2024 following regulatory approvals.
SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper are identified as key beneficiaries of the proposed changes to allow non-geostationary operations in the 17.3–17.8 GHz band.
SpaceX identified launch windows for Polaris Dawn on Saturday, 2024-09-07; Monday, 2024-09-09; and Tuesday, 2024-09-10, each from 12:38 AM to 4:09 AM PDT.
SpaceX filed a new launch schedule with the Federal Aviation Administration that included a first available window opening at 3:38 a.m. on Wednesday, 2024-09-04.
SpaceX plans a launch on Wednesday, 2024-09-11 for a batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation.
Two SpaceX-built satellites exchanged data using optical communications terminals on 2024-09-03.
Two of the four SpaceX Tranche 0 satellites were equipped with Leidos infrared sensors and Tesat optical terminals.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2024-09-05 for a Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Flight day four will include a test of intersatellite data relays with SpaceX's Starlink constellation.
SpaceX scheduled Polaris Dawn to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 3:38 a.m. EDT (0738 UTC) on 2024-09-01.
The four astronauts will don SpaceX-developed extravehicular activity (EVA) suits on flight day two.
The Polaris Dawn mission will utilize a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX implemented changes to mitigate a flammability concern associated with the crew's EVA suits.
India's maximum launch capacity is currently 10 tons to LEO and 4 tons to GTO, which is lower than that of China and SpaceX.
SpaceX and Northrop Grumman built a reconnaissance satellite constellation for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.