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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SpaceX launched Odysseus, a robotic lunar lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, from a Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2024-02-15.
SpaceX planned to launch 22 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2024-02-15.
SpaceX has initiated the disposal of 406 Starlink units from the nearly 6,000 Starlink satellites launched to date.
Intelsat offers a multi-orbit flat panel antenna for ground vehicles that provides broadband services from Intelsat’s geostationary satellites and from SpaceX’s Starlink.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 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.
one.nz is pairing its existing 0.004 kg and 0.005 kg mobile network with SpaceX’s satellite constellation to expand coverage across New Zealand’s 104,428-square-mile geography.
one.nz is offering a collaboration with SpaceX to provide Starlink satellite-to-mobile service in New Zealand.
SpaceX had 2.2 million Starlink customers worldwide, 59% of whom were in the United States.
Dr. Soichi Noguchi became the first non-American to go to space aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2020.
When SpaceX and the Polaris Program announced Polaris Dawn two years ago, they projected a launch as early as the fourth quarter of 2022.
SpaceX is using the Polaris Dawn mission to test the high-mobility spacesuit the company plans for future missions.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the Florida coast on 2024-02-09, concluding a three-week private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
Polaris Dawn is intended to perform the first spacewalk from a Crew Dragon spacecraft using spacesuits being developed by SpaceX.
NASA and SpaceX technicians encapsulated the PACE spacecraft in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload fairings on 2024-01-30 at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Using spectrum from terrestrial mobile network partners is a key element of SpaceX, Lynk Global, and AST SpaceMobile plans to provide direct-to-smartphone services.
SpaceX received permission from the Eastern Range in 2020 to conduct Falcon 9 launches on southern trajectories to access polar orbits from Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX targeted an instantaneous launch window at 4:49 p.m. ET for Falcon 9’s launch of Axiom Mission 3 from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center.
The LizzieSat Modular Satellite Platform is expected to be launched on SpaceX Transporter 10.
The SpaceX Dragon supporting Axiom Mission 3 previously flew Crew-4 and Ax-2 to and from the International Space Station.
The AWS satellite is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 2024 on a SpaceX rideshare mission to a sun-synchronous orbit above 500 km.