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 Space Development Agency is paying a total of $1,600,000 to SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions, and Aalyria Technologies to conduct the studies.
The first two Jackal satellites are scheduled to launch to low Earth orbit in early 2024 on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare.
QPS-SAR-6 reached orbit as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-8 rideshare mission in June.
Rivada has not launched any satellites so far and its contracts with Terran Orbital and SpaceX do not call for launches to start until 2025.
In February 2022 SpaceX lost 38 of 49 Starlink satellites shortly after launch after a solar storm increased atmospheric density in their parking orbit and their electric propulsion systems could not overcome the increased drag.
The Block 1 satellite size is similar to the BlueWalker 3 prototype that SpaceX launched in September 2022.
AST SpaceMobile fully funded its first five commercial satellites slated to launch with SpaceX in early 2024 after raising $115,000,000 in debt.
The Space Development Agency has ordered four satellites from SpaceX.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is rescheduled to launch 22 second-generation "V2" Starlink mini satellites at 12:27 a.m. EDT (0427 UTC) early Friday morning.
Eight York Space satellites launched to orbit on 2023-04-02 along with two satellites from SpaceX.
SpaceX and Raytheon Technologies are using in-house satellite designs for their Space Development Agency builds.
SpaceX currently charges $5,500 per kilogram for rideshare payloads, and that price increases annually by $500 per kilogram.
The four scheduled Bandwagon missions are listed on SpaceX’s rideshare website for April 2024, November 2024, February 2025, and May 2025.
SpaceX is offering a second class of rideshare missions on its Falcon 9 rocket called Bandwagon to serve customers seeking mid-inclination orbits.
SpaceX has been flying Transporter rideshare missions since 2021 to sun-synchronous orbits.
SpaceX also offers traditional rideshares that carry smallsats as secondary payloads to orbits including low Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, and translunar injection trajectories.
ESA procured Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX for its Euclid space telescope, which launched on 2023-07-01.
SpaceX, OneWeb, and DirecTV filed regulatory comments with the FCC expressing concern about potential interference from opening the 12 GHz band to high-powered, two-way fixed broadband services and called for thorough technical studies.
The orbital transfer vehicle with the Z01 integrated is slated for launch via SpaceX’s Falcon 9 in Q4 2023.
NASA received an updated Starship development schedule from SpaceX during a briefing at SpaceX’s Starbase test facility in Texas.