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 US Air Force awarded a $102 million contract to SpaceX in January 2022 for developing a point-to-point space transportation system.
SpaceX launched the PYXIS demonstration satellite on the Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 2024-03-04 (PST).
NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 reached orbit following a launch to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX has launched nearly 1,000 smallsats for more than 130 customers across its Rideshare program.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of Hawthorne, California was awarded a contract to provide services through demonstrated commercial capabilities.
SpaceX has the largest constellation of satellites, Starlink, with over 5,000 satellites deployed.
Crew-8 is the second of up to five crewed SpaceX flights planned for 2024 following the Ax-3 private astronaut mission that launched in January.
NASA and SpaceX initiated launch preparations on the evening of 2024-03-02 but called off the attempt more than three hours before liftoff due to weather.
SpaceX plans to launch NASA’s Crew-9 mission to the ISS as soon as August, the Ax-4 private astronaut mission to the ISS in the fall, and the Polaris Dawn mission as soon as the summer.
SpaceX is building a fifth Crew Dragon spacecraft that will be ready late 2024 for the Crew-10 mission in 2025.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled to launch Dragon’s eighth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-8) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX and NASA previously delayed the Crew-8 launch from 2024-03-01 due to poor weather in the downrange offshore area required for crew recovery in the event of an abort.
The four 3p PocketQubes for Hello Space Systems are planned for deployment to a Sun Synchronous orbit via SpaceX’s Falcon 9 in 2024 and 2025.
Hello Space Systems' inaugural PocketQube satellite mission, 'Istanbul', launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission in June 2023.
SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Saturday, 2024-03-02 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX won 40% of the missions projected for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract in 2020.
SpaceX nearly reached 100 launches in 2023 and expects to exceed 100 launches in 2024.
LizzieSat is targeted to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission no earlier than March 2024.
The MISSE payload is slated to fly on SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Mission to the space station scheduled for March.
Alba Orbital has delivered 41 satellites to orbit to date with launch partners including SpaceX and Rocket Lab.