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 built a new tower at SLC-40 that allows the pad to be used again for cargo missions and, eventually, crewed missions.
The emergence of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle is designed to place 100 metric tons or more into low Earth orbit.
SpaceX is launching a new line of rideshare missions called Bandwagon for mid-inclination orbits.
Benchmark’s Xantus metal plasma thrusters were launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission on 2024-03-04.
Kier Fortier, managing director of Exolaunch USA, expressed pride in collaboration with SpaceX.
Pablo Gallego, vice president of PLD Space, claimed much of the small launch industry owes its existence to demand created by SpaceX rideshare missions.
Benchmark Space Systems’ first electric propulsion system in space launched aboard the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare mission.
Space Tango successfully launched life science investigations on SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-30) mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 2024-03-21.
SpaceX launched the 10th successful Transporter mission in March 2024 using a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX performed 96 launches of its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets in 2023.
The investigations launching on SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission are funded by NASA.
Two investigations flying on NASA’s SpaceX CRS-30 mission were selected through the Technology in Space Prize funded by Boeing and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS).
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the CRS-30 investigations no earlier than Thursday, 2024-03-21, at 4:55 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX offers custom trajectory optimization for customers buying the full performance of a Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy and provides payload matchmaking services to pair complementary customers for shared launches.
The FAA has updated SpaceX’s Starship launch license after every flight to date to reflect mission changes such as the different suborbital trajectory used on the 2024-03-14 flight.
The EWS demonstration cubesat containing Xantus launched on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare mission on 2024-03-04.
SpaceX declared Flight 3 a success despite not achieving all its stated objectives.
Elon Musk's SpaceX took over the McGregor site after Beal Aerospace closed.
SpaceX launched Starship from its Boca Chica, Texas site.
SpaceX planned a propellant transfer demonstration during the flight to support future missions.