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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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is conducting a separate review of the environmental effects of SpaceX's new water deluge system.
SpaceX supports providing additional resources to the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST).
Bill Gerstenmaier, vice president of build and flight reliability at SpaceX, stated that the pace of American regulation must match the pace of American innovation.
Gerstenmaier stated that SpaceX targets up to 100 launches in 2023 and 144 launches in 2024.
Horizon Technologies initially planned to launch Amber IOD-3 aboard a SpaceX Cargo Dragon mission in 2021 for deployment from the International Space Station.
Regulatory delays impact SpaceX’s work on the lunar lander version of Starship and its ability to support NASA.
John Malsbury previously managed signal processing development across Dragon 2, Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Falcon 9 at SpaceX.
SpaceX started offering smallsat rideshare launch opportunities as low as $5,000 per kilogram.
Atomos Space plans to launch its first orbital transfer vehicle on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare flight in 2024.
SpaceX raised its smallsat rideshare price to $5,500 per kilogram and plans annual price increases in future years.
SpaceX lifted nearly ten times as much mass to orbit as China's closest competitor in the second quarter of the year.
Forty SpaceX Starlink satellites were lost in February 2022 after a relatively minor geomagnetic storm.
Telesat previously had launch contracts for Lightspeed with Blue Origin and Relativity Space before contracting 14 Falcon 9 launches with SpaceX.
SpaceX postponed a Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station late 2023-10-08 and prioritized the Falcon Heavy launch of Psyche, postponing the Starlink launch until after Psyche lifts off.
SpaceX signed a contract with Telesat for 14 Falcon 9 launches of the Lightspeed constellation in 2026 and 2027.
Momentus integrated its customers' payloads for the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission and shipped the payloads to Vandenberg Space Force Base for integration with Falcon 9.
Momentus plans to launch its Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle on SpaceX Transporter-10 targeted no earlier than February 2024.
Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency plan to launch the MANTIS satellite aboard the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission.
MANTIS completed integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 before lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
NASA and SpaceX targeted launch at 10:19 a.m. EDT on Friday, 2023-10-13 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.