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 U.S. Space Force is preparing environmental studies that could lead to SpaceX Starship launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX is building a Starship launch pad at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A adjacent to the existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy pad.
SpaceX currently has one Starship launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas and plans to build a second Starship launch pad at Starbase.
Pony Express 2 is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter 10 smallsat rideshare.
SpaceX aims to launch an early texting capability in the United States in 2024 in partnership with T-Mobile.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Pony Express 2 is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission no earlier than March 2024.
Iridium expects a 5–10% hit to average revenue per user in 2024 from losing maritime broadband business to SpaceX’s Starlink.
SpaceX delayed the IM-1 mission launch about 90 minutes before the scheduled 12:57 a.m. Eastern 2024-02-14 liftoff.
SpaceX provided a backup launch opportunity for USSF-124 on Thursday, 2024-02-15 at 5:30 p.m. ET.
SpaceX and Intuitive Machines scrubbed an earlier launch attempt originally planned for Wednesday morning before targeting 2024-02-15.
SpaceX launched the U.S. military classified mission USSF-124 on 2024-02-14.
SpaceX deployed the first batch of 60 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit in May 2019.
LS-1 is ready for launch and was delivered to the SpaceX launch site in Vandenburg, CA earlier 2024-02.
LizzieSat LS-1 is ready for launch and was delivered to the SpaceX launch site in Vandenberg, California earlier 2024-02.
SpaceX planned the IM-1 private moon-landing mission for 2024-02-15 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX targeted 2024-02-15 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission to a lunar transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX modifications developed to support IM-1 will be used by future Intuitive Machines landers and could also be used by other customers.
Gravity-2 aims to operate at a similar price per kilogram as SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
Varda launched the W-Series 1 spacecraft in June on the SpaceX Transporter-8 rideshare mission.