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 FAA will require SpaceX to perform a mishap investigation after the Flight 3 incident before allowing additional launches.
SpaceX reported that some tiles were seen coming off the Starship during reentry.
SpaceX is preparing to accelerate its flight schedule for Starship launches.
SpaceX's Starbase site in Boca Chica is licensed for orbital launches but faces environmental challenges.
Sidus Space’s initial LizzieSat launched on 2024-03-04 as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission.
NASA stated that it is working with SpaceX to review data collected during the test flights.
SpaceX estimates it will require around ten to twenty refueling launches for its Starship HLS mission according to various sources.
Exotrail’s spacevan™ mission that released EXO-0 had been launched in November 2023 aboard SpaceX Transporter 9.
NASA awarded SpaceX $4 billion in contracts to develop lunar lander versions of Starship for its Human Landing System program.
SpaceX declared Ship 28 lost when it was planned to splash down in the Indian Ocean.
SpaceX explained that excess liquid oxygen was carried to gather data for future payload deploy missions.
Umbra-07 and Umbra-08 launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission on 2023-11-09.
SpaceX’s Starshield business unit has a $1,800,000,000 contract with the National Reconnaissance Office signed in 2021 to build spy satellites.
SpaceX will launch 23 Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, with a launch window of 7:20–11:51 p.m. PT (10:20 p.m.–2:51 a.m. ET, 0220–0651 UTC).
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX to transport satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.
Turion Space’s debut satellite Droid.001 is a 32-kilogram spacecraft that launched on a SpaceX mission in June.
Elon Musk–led SpaceX is building hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with the National Reconnaissance Office.
SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 2024-03-04.
Tiger-5 and Tiger-6 were launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 three months before the Transporter-10 mission.
OQ Technology Group launched two Low Earth Orbit satellites named TIGER-7 and TIGER-8 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rideshare mission Transporter-10.