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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Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone founded Relativity Space after leaving their jobs at Blue Origin and SpaceX.
SpaceX targeted a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2024-01-28, with liftoff targeted for 9:57 p.m. PT and backup opportunities available until 10:03 p.m. PT.
SpaceX conducted back-to-back doubleheader Falcon 9 launches of Starlink satellites from both U.S. coasts on 2024-01-28–29, 2024.
SpaceX created a 1.5 by 1.2 m door in the side of the Falcon 9 payload fairing to provide environmentally controlled access for late cargo loading within 24 hours of launch.
SmallCAT was launched in April 2023 by SpaceX aboard a satellite operated by the Norwegian Space Agency.
NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 12:29 p.m. EST on Monday, 2024-01-29 for a launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.
HORIS-1 is scheduled to launch to low Earth orbit on SpaceX Transporter-12.
About 50 different U.S. military commands and Defense Department offices are using SpaceX’s Starlink low-Earth orbit internet services.
SpaceX has deployed more than 5,200 Starlink broadband satellites in low Earth orbit since 2019.
The United States prioritized creating an environment to enable new non-geostationary orbit systems (NGSO), such as SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper, to provide internet broadband connectivity with low latency to remote areas.
Sidus Space plans to launch its satellite LizzieSat-1 on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California in March 2024.
Of the $70,000,000 PLEO task order awarded to SpaceX, approximately $25,000,000 in funds were obligated from about 50 different DoD customers.
SpaceX plans to start testing direct-to-cell connectivity between Starlink satellites and T-Mobile smartphones in several locations across the United States.
SpaceX sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 2023-12-14 urging the FCC to clarify that WRC-23 radio regulations can be updated in 2027.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Ax-3 astronauts launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:49 p.m. ET on 2025-01-18.
SmallCAT was launched in April 2023 by SpaceX aboard a satellite operated by the Norwegian Space Agency.
Pixxel launched the demonstration satellites Shakuntala and Anand aboard SpaceX and PSLV rockets, respectively, in 2022.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying four Axiom Mission 3 astronauts aboard the Dragon Freedom spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
NASA selected Blue Origin and SpaceX, along with three other companies, in the second round of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program in November 2019.
Elon Musk expressed an intent for Starship to deliver payloads and frequency sufficient to support a permanently occupied Moon base in the 2024-01-12 SpaceX presentation.