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 SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft carrying four Axiom Mission 3 astronauts was photographed docked to the International Space Station shortly after orbital sunrise on 2024-01-20.
Intuitive Machines and SpaceX plan to launch the IM-1 lunar lander mission as soon as 2024-02-14, pending a fueling test on the pad.
SpaceX's Starship was assumed for launching the SBSP systems, accounting for over 70% of the total costs.
Intuitive Machines and SpaceX are coordinating a multi-day launch window for the IM-1 mission that opens no earlier than 12:57 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on 2024-02-14 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX launched a first batch of satellites to test a direct-to-smartphone capability in partnership with T-Mobile US.
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, 2024-02-07 at 1:33 a.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission to a sun-synchronous orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The NASA study utilized a launch methodology for SBSP similar to SpaceX's Human Landing System approach.
Early 2024, using T-Mobile’s network, SpaceX successfully sent and received text messages using new Starlink direct-to-cell satellites.
Starlab Space selected SpaceX to launch the Starlab commercial space station to low-Earth orbit.
The Air Force awarded SpaceX a $102,000,000 five-year contract two years ago to demonstrate technologies and capabilities to transport military cargo and humanitarian aid around the world on a heavy rocket.
Starlab Space selected SpaceX to launch the Starlab commercial space station to low-Earth orbit.
Starship is still in development and SpaceX conducted two Starship test flights in 2023 and was planning a third test flight 2024-02.
The CRADA was established on 2024-01-31 and allows the sharing of facilities between the Office of Space Commerce and SpaceX without exchanging funds.
Starlab Space selected SpaceX’s Starship to launch the Starlab commercial space station on a single flight.
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Cygnus cargo delivery spacecraft launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Starlab Space reached an agreement with SpaceX to launch the Starlab station on Starship on 2024-01-31.
The Office of Space Commerce will perform an astrodynamics evaluation of the tools SpaceX uses to manage more than 5,000 Starlink broadband satellites.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the Cygnus NG-20 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
LizzieSat is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 2024 on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission.
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, 2024-01-30, for a Falcon 9 launch of Northrop Grumman’s 20th Commercial Resupply Services mission (NG-20) to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.