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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Momentus is booking rideshare and hosting payload customers on the SpaceX Transporter-11 mission targeted for no earlier than June 2024.
Washington state companies including SpaceX, Amazon’s Kuiper Systems, and Stoke Space Technologies are pursuing methods to reduce debris accumulation in space or have been threatened by orbital debris.
Space Systems Command assigned 21 national security launch missions to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract the companies won in 2020.
In May, SpaceX launched a OneWeb Gen 2 technology demonstrator using the same platform as the 150-kilogram Gen 1 spacecraft.
Telesat booked SpaceX for 14 launches between mid-2026 and mid-2027 to fully deploy the 198 satellites Lightspeed needs for global coverage.
United Launch Alliance originally won 60% of the Phase 2 missions and SpaceX originally won 40% of the Phase 2 missions.
SpaceX’s upcoming NSSL missions include USSF-52, which was awarded in 2018 and is not part of Phase 2.
Of the 21 missions assigned for fiscal year 2024, United Launch Alliance received 11 missions and SpaceX received 10 missions.
SpaceX had scheduled a double-header with 23 Starlink satellites set to launch from Cape Canaveral but detected a problem with the Falcon 9’s stage separation system during prelaunch operations.
As of 2023-10-20, Ovzon 3 was on track to be shipped to SpaceX’s launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, by late November following testing and assembly progress.
SpaceX has a contract to launch the 11 O3b mPower satellites under SES’s original order.
The Space Systems Command assigned 21 launch missions to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX on 2024-10-31 as part of the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract.
Based on the latest Phase 2 mission assignments, United Launch Alliance ended up with 54% of missions and SpaceX ended up with 46% of missions.
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIDU) is expanding its management leadership structure ahead of the LizzieSat constellation launch with SpaceX beginning in 2024-01-01.
SpaceX planned another launch attempt for the aborted 23-Satellite Starlink mission approximately 24 hours after the scrub on 30 October 2023.
SpaceX had scheduled a double-header with 23 Starlink satellites set to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in late October 2023.
Redwire is launching materials on SpaceX-29 for an investigation that will bioprint cardiac tissue on orbit using Redwire’s BioFabrication Facility (BFF).
The PIL-BOX inaugural mission, named PIL-BOX-01, will launch onboard SpaceX’s 29th cargo resupply services mission (SpaceX-29) for NASA to the International Space Station.
In 2013 MDA became the first commercial customer to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
CHORUS is targeted to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in the 2025-10-01 launch window from Florida.