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 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, 2024-05-08.
SpaceX will conduct two Falcon 9 launches on Wednesday, 2024-05-08 from two U.S. coasts.
SpaceX's Direct to Cell service works with existing LTE phones wherever the sky is visible and requires no changes to hardware, firmware, or special apps to provide text, voice, and data access.
NASA provided less oversight for Starliner compared to SpaceX’s Dragon due to its familiarity with Boeing.
Starliner’s crew capsule is slightly bigger than an Apollo command module or a SpaceX Dragon.
Boeing is developing Starliner as a backup to SpaceX's Dragon for NASA astronauts traveling to the International Space Station.
SpaceX unveiled a new extravehicular activity (EVA) suit design on 2024-05-04.
Laser Communications Terminals (LCTs) are expected to be developed by existing non-geostationary satellite orbit constellation operators such as SpaceX's Starlink, Amazon's Kuiper, and Guowang over the next decade.
SpaceX targeted Thursday, 2024-05-02 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with liftoff targeted for 10:13 p.m. ET and backup opportunities available until 1:17 a.m. ET on Friday, 2024-05-03.
SpaceX has announced intentions to enter the laser communications market.
The National Reconnaissance Office is preparing to launch the first phase of a new imaging satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2024-05-02 for launch of the Maxar 1 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX is under contract to perform the Artemis 3 lunar landing with a current NASA no-earlier-than date of September 2026.
The satellites for the NRO’s new constellation were built under a classified $1,800,000,000 contract awarded by the National Reconnaissance Office in 2021 to SpaceX and Northrop Grumman.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission launched on 2024-03-03 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the International Space Station on 2024-03-05.
Four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to a different docking port on Thursday, 2024-05-02.
The 2024-04-27 mission broke a streak of 146 Falcon 9 launches with a booster landing that dated back to 2022-11-01, when SpaceX conducted back-to-back Falcon 9 launches carrying geostationary satellites with expended boosters.
SpaceX may launch Maxar’s WorldView Legion 1 & 2 mission on 2024-05-01 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California between 11:30 AM and 12:24 PM PDT.
In November 2023 the European Commission was finalizing a deal with SpaceX for two Falcon 9 launches, each carrying two Galileo satellites scheduled for 2024, under a contract valued at 180,000,000 EUR.
SpaceX is working toward qualifying its fleet of Falcon boosters and fairings to support 40 missions each.