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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Sidus Space, Inc. received ASTRA Flight Software Version 1.0 and ASTRA flight hardware from NASA Stennis and installed them on the company’s LizzieSat satellite ahead of its first-quarter 2024 SpaceX Transporter 10 launch.
SpaceX may charge for the volatiles used on a per-kilogram basis from its owned storage tanks.
SpaceX secured regulatory permission to test direct-to-smartphone services from upgraded Starlink broadband satellites slated to launch on 2023-12-28.
SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Thursday, 2023-12-28 for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52 to orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX targeted no earlier than Wednesday, 2023-12-13 for Falcon Heavy to launch USSF-52 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
ALISIO-1 was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on SpaceX's Falcon 9.
NASA has awarded SpaceX $4,000,000,000 in contracts to develop a lunar lander version of Starship for transporting astronauts to the surface of the moon beginning with Artemis 3 later this decade.
In a 2023-12-14 letter to the Federal Communications Commission, SpaceX requested that the FCC make clear the intention of WRC-23 that radio regulations can be updated in 2027 and sought correction of record misrepresentations that could delay updates.
Center for Biological Diversity, American Bird Conservancy, Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, Inc., Save RGV, and Surfrider Foundation filed a supplemental legal claim in federal court on 2023-12-15 regarding licensing of Starship launches from SpaceX’s Starbase site near Brownsville, Texas.
The FAA is overseeing a SpaceX-led investigation into the 2023-11-18 second Starship launch.
SpaceX argued that the approved EPFD studies should result in updated regulations as soon as 2027 to allow next-generation satellite systems to increase power and capacity without consequences for GSO operators.
Space Perspective's Manufacturing team is led by Vincent Bachet, formerly of SpaceX.
Amazon announced on 2023-12-01 that it had signed a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches of Project Kuiper satellites starting in mid-2025.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2023-12-14 for a Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Amazon filed a document with Delaware’s Court of Chancery on 2023-12-11 contesting that the lawsuit provided the 'extreme set of facts' required by law to show the board improperly approved the launch contracts while overlooking SpaceX.
Apex’s first satellite, Call to Adventure, carrying payloads for multiple customers, is scheduled to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare mission in early 2024.
SpaceX began adding optical inter-satellite links to its Starlink low Earth orbit broadband constellation in early 2021 to avoid the need for ground stations over the poles to achieve global coverage.
Amazon plans to start launching Project Kuiper commercial satellites in the first half of 2024 using launch contracts with United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, Blue Origin, and SpaceX.
SpaceX was provisionally awarded $886,000,000 in RDOF subsidies in December 2020 to deliver high-speed broadband to nearly 643,000 homes and businesses in 35 states over 10 years.
SpaceX is developing the Starship/Super Heavy launch vehicle at Boca Chica, Texas.