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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Thierry Breton, European Commission commissioner for the internal market, selected SpaceX as the launcher for four Galileo satellites in 2024 because Ariane 6 was not yet available.
SpaceX performed an in-flight propellant transfer demonstration during the 2024-03-14 Starship test flight under a NASA Tipping Point contract awarded in 2020.
The European Space Agency contracted with SpaceX to launch up to four Galileo spacecraft over two launches in 2024.
SpaceX planned to transfer at least 10 metric tons of liquid oxygen from a header tank to the main tank within the Starship upper stage during the 2024-03-14 flight.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2024-04-27 at 8:34 p.m. ET.
The first stage booster on the Galileo L12 mission was tail number B1060 in the SpaceX fleet and it launched for a 20th and final time on 2024-04-27.
SpaceX did not plan to recover Falcon 9 booster B1060 on the Galileo L12 mission due to the additional performance requirement to deliver the payload to medium Earth orbit.
SpaceX has a backup launch opportunity on Sunday, 2024-04-28 at 8:30 p.m. ET.
SpaceX will launch two Galileo satellites into medium Earth orbit on Saturday, 2024-04-27.
SpaceX is targeting Saturday, 2024-04-27 at 8:34 p.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Two Jackal spacecraft launched on 2024-03-04 on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare into low Earth orbit for a demonstration of rendezvous and proximity operations capabilities.
SpaceX's Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb, and O3b mPOWER from SES are the three expected NGSO constellations operational in 2024.
SpaceX will launch two Galileo satellites into medium Earth orbit on Saturday, 2024-04-27.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is set to launch a batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 for the Starlink mega-constellation.
The launch is valued at $52,000,000 and is part of SpaceX’s Starlink project for a space-based Internet communication system.
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, 2024-04-23 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The first nine Apogeo Space test satellites launched in November 2023 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and were released by D-Orbit’s Orbital Transfer Vehicle.
Inversion announced plans on 2024-04-17 to launch its first reentry vehicle, called Ray, on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission currently planned for October.
SpaceX is scheduled to start launching Telesat’s Aurora Lightspeed satellites in 2026.
Ray will launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as part of the Transporter-12 rideshare mission no earlier than October 2024.