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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HOTSAT-1 was launched into orbit in June aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX has launched 5,000 Starlink satellites since 2019.
SpaceX has permission from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to grow the Starlink constellation to 12,000 satellites and is seeking international approvals to eventually expand to 40,000 Starlink satellites in orbit.
SpaceX previously planned to launch full-sized Starlink V2 satellites on Starship rather than the smaller V2 mini satellites currently launched on Falcon 9.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won NSSL Phase 2 in 2020.
SpaceX plans to deploy a version 3 of its Starlink satellites, referred to as Starlink V3.
Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency plan to launch the MANTIS satellite on the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission in 2023.
MANTIS completed integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ahead of lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.
Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency have planned to launch the MANTIS satellite aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission.
MANTIS was integrated with its EXOpod Nova deployment system in Berlin prior to completing integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
MANTIS completed integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ahead of lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $70,000,000 contract to SpaceX for Starlink internet services.
The $70,000,000 award is a one-year task order to SpaceX dated 2023-09-01 for the procurement of Starlink internet services.
SpaceX is one of 16 vendors selected to compete for up to $900,000,000 worth of PLEO task orders over the next five years.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance in the United States and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Landspace, and iSpace in China have launched or are close to launching methane–liquid oxygen launchers.
The Starlink service provided under the $70,000,000 task order is identified as Starshield, SpaceX’s brand name for its military product line.
The SpaceX task order is the first and the only task order awarded to date under the new PLEO IDIQ.
SpaceX developed propulsive landings for Falcon 9 boosters and achieved reuse of boosters with a current record of 17 flights for a single booster.
NASA selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California and its Falcon 9 rocket to provide the launch service for the agency’s TRACERS mission.
SpaceX’s Starship is being designed with refueling capabilities for Artemis crewed lunar landings.