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 Varda capsule was part of a Rocket Lab Photon spacecraft that launched in June 2023 on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 rideshare mission.
SpaceX is due to start launching the 198 MDA-built satellites for the Telesat Lightspeed constellation in mid-2026.
The proposed FCC framework is a particularly important milestone for SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile, which have partnered with T-Mobile and AT&T, respectively, to enter the U.S. direct-to-smartphone market.
SES and Hughes will attempt to establish a hybrid network supported by the SES-15 and SES-17 geostationary satellites, SES’ O3b medium Earth orbit satellites, and SpaceX’s Starlink low Earth orbit satellites.
Tom Mueller was a founding member of SpaceX and helped design the Merlin rocket engine that powers Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles.
BRO-12 and BRO-13 will be launched next March on the Transporter-10 mission aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket via Exolaunch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Exolaunch will integrate the BRO-12 and BRO-13 (Breizh Reconnaissance Orbiter) satellites on a Falcon 9 launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base as part of SpaceX’s Transporter 10 rideshare mission.
SpaceX offered a backup launch opportunity on Wednesday, 2024-02-21 with a four-hour window opening at 12:53 p.m. ET.
SpaceX launched the Telkomsat Merah Putih 2 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 20 February 2024 at 20:11 UTC (13:11 EST).
SpaceX intends to launch a commercial direct-to-cellular service with partner T-Mobile later 2024 and will start comprehensive tests before submitting results to the FCC.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched the Independence payload from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2024-02-15 at 1:05 AM US Eastern Time.
SpaceX aims for Starship to have a launch readiness time of one hour, significantly faster than current launch systems.
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, 2024-02-20 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Telkomsat Merah Putih 2 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit.
Gary Henry from SpaceX stated that Starship could begin a cost trajectory at $200 per kilogram for launches.
The US Air Force awarded SpaceX a $102 million five-year contract as part of the Rocket Cargo program in early 2022.
Pony Express 2 is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission no earlier than March 2024.
SpaceX's Starship is proposed for high-speed point-to-point transportation of cargo for military operations and humanitarian relief.
The Rocket Cargo program studies how SpaceX could transport military cargo using cargo containers compatible with other transportation modes.
SpaceX anticipates commercial applications for Rocket Cargo, suggesting a hypothetical scenario involving urgent replacement parts for factories.
SpaceX would modify, reuse, or demolish the existing SLC-37 infrastructure to support Starship-Super Heavy launch and landing operations.