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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Capella Space will launch two Acadia satellites, Acadia-4 and Acadia-5, with SpaceX in 2024.
Bandwagon-1 is the first of a new line of dedicated SpaceX rideshare missions designed to go to mid-inclination orbits rather than sun-synchronous orbits.
Optimus will provide on-orbit transportation and other in-space services after its launch on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission in early 2024.
Capella Space will launch two Acadia radar imaging satellites on SpaceX rideshare missions in the first half of 2024.
Acadia-5 will launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 no earlier than June 2024.
The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.
Space Machines Company and Orbit Fab are scheduled to launch missions on SpaceX Transporter rideshares in 2024.
Capella Space will launch two Acadia satellites, Acadia-4 and Acadia-5, with SpaceX in 2024.
Acadia-4 will be launched to a 45-degree mid-inclination orbit during SpaceX’s Bandwagon-1 mission no earlier than April 2024.
Acadia-5 will be launched no earlier than June 2024 to a 97-degree sun-synchronous orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 mission via Exolaunch.
Crew-5 launched in October 2022 on a SpaceX Crew mission with Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina.
SpaceX has launched more than 5,400 Starlink satellites as of November.
Axiom has begun sending commercially funded missions to the ISS using SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle.
The flight is expected to use the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle and travel to the International Space Station (ISS).
Amazon signed a contract with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support deployment plans for Project Kuiper.
The three additional Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX provide more capacity to support Project Kuiper’s deployment schedule.
The feasibility study was performed under an unfunded Space Act Agreement and was completed earlier in the year, with NASA and SpaceX not releasing details about the study’s results or next steps.
A study announced in September 2022 involving Jared Isaacman, SpaceX, and NASA examined the feasibility of a private mission to reboost and possibly repair Hubble using SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.
A pension fund filed a lawsuit against Amazon’s board of directors alleging they acted in bad faith by approving the bulk of Kuiper launches to rockets developed by United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and Blue Origin without considering SpaceX.
SpaceX launched the Korea 425 mission on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California on 2023-12-01 at 10:19 a.m. PT.