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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Companies developing broadband constellations that will compete with Starlink, including Amazon and Telesat, have signed Falcon 9 launch contracts.
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, 2024-01-03 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Ovzon 3 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Ovzon reported that the Ovzon 3 spacecraft remains healthy and the company is working closely with SpaceX to prepare for a launch in early January 2024.
SpaceX performed 91 Falcon 9 launches and five Falcon Heavy launches in 2023.
New Space India Ltd. (NSIL) signed a contract with SpaceX for the Falcon 9 launch of GSAT-20 in the second quarter of 2024.
Delays in the development of new launch vehicles have created a scarcity of launch opportunities outside of SpaceX.
SpaceX plans to conduct 12 launches a month in 2024, aiming for a total of 144 launches.
Terran Orbital received more than $5,000,000 to start work on a constellation targeting SpaceX launches from 2025.
SpaceX targeted no earlier than Thursday, 2023-12-28 with a four-hour launch window opening at 7:00 p.m. ET for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52, with a backup opportunity on Friday, 2023-12-29 during the same window.
The Falcon Heavy side boosters used on USSF-52 landed on SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station following booster separation.
Since arriving in Florida, the IM-1 lunar lander completed major system tests, verification, and certification milestones and is prepared for integration with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX stood down from a Falcon Heavy launch of USSF-52 to perform additional system checkouts prior to the successful 2023-12-28 launch.
Intuitive Machines targets the IM-1 lunar mission launch window to open no earlier than mid-February 2024 in coordination with SpaceX.
SpaceX fell short of a planned 100 launches in 2023, achieving 98 launches.
LizzieSat completed required environmental testing ahead of its planned launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission in March 2024.
SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy carrying the USSF-52 mission from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2023-12-28 at 8:07 p.m. ET.
Lynk Global plans to deploy two more one-meter-squared satellites early next year via SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
SpaceX plans to launch its first batch of satellites with an experimental direct-to-smartphone payload on 2023-12-30.
SpaceX will launch Ovzon 3 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Ovzon is working closely with SpaceX to prepare Ovzon 3 for launch.