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 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.
On 2024-02-26, the Federal Aviation Administration closed its investigation into the 2023-11-18 Orbital Flight Test (OFT) 2 launch by accepting the root causes of the failure identified by SpaceX.
Nick Cummings, senior director of program development at SpaceX, indicated during the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference on 2024-02-21 that the upcoming Starship launch will include a propellant transfer test within Starship.
SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Friday, 2024-03-01 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s eighth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-8) to the International Space Station.
SpaceX has four sets of Starship and Super Heavy vehicles already built at Starbase ready for upcoming flights.
The next two Unseenlabs satellites, BRO-12 and BRO-13 (Breizh Reconnaissance Orbiter), are slated to launch in March on SpaceX’s next Transporter rideshare mission on a Falcon 9.
CRS-30 is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 40 and will be the first mission to use the crew and cargo access tower that SpaceX built at SLC-40.
SpaceX's Starship vehicle failed to complete its mission profiles during its first two test flights.
Additional Ascent modules with lower-cost and lighter-weight laminates are being evaluated on the upcoming MISSE payload for SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Mission scheduled for March.
SpaceX is completing a fifth Crew Dragon spacecraft that is notionally planned to fly the Crew-10 mission in 2025 and is expected to be ready in the fourth quarter of 2024.
SpaceX is targeting Sunday, 2024-02-25 for a Falcon 9 launch of 24 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The first stage booster supporting the February SpaceX mission will be flying its 13th flight after previously launching CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18, SES-19, and eight Starlink missions.
SpaceX plans to launch a batch of 24 Starlink v2 Mini satellites designated Group 6-39 on 2024-02-24 at 4:59 p.m. EST (21:59 UTC) from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
After the February launch, SpaceX will be on pace to reach 120 total launches within 2024 while falling short of a planned 148 launches.
Following this launch, SpaceX will be on pace to reach 120 total launches within 2024, which falls short of the planned 148 launches.
SpaceX will need to average nearly three launches per week for the remainder of 2024 to reach the planned total of 148 launches.
Ubotica will launch the CogniSAT-6 satellite in early March on SpaceX’s Transporter 10 mission.
Space Development Corporation, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Above: Orbital, will test the performance and durability of its proprietary materials in low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station on the Materials International Space Station Experiment MISSE-19 mission in March flown on SpaceX Dragon resupply mission SPX-30.
BRO-12 and BRO-13 are scheduled to launch no earlier than March on the Transporter-10 mission aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket via Exolaunch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.