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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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk estimated Starship launch prices would be less than $10 million in 2-3 years.
SpaceX is developing the Starship-Super Heavy heavy launch vehicle, referred to as Starship.
SpaceX conducted the first test launch of Starship-Super Heavy on April 20, 2023.
Impulse Space seeks to provide last-mile delivery services for satellites launched on rideshare missions such as those flown by SpaceX on its Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX received a CCSC-2 agreement for a proposal that included using Starship as an integrated low Earth orbit architecture and a potential large commercial LEO destination.
Blue Canyon Technologies contributed products to the SpaceX Transporter-8 launch on 2023-06-12.
Under the dual-lane NSSL strategy, multiple medium-lift rockets will be selected to launch lower-orbit missions and three heavy-lift launch providers will be selected to reduce the Department of Defense’s dependence on SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.
The SpaceX Transporter-8 launch included one 12U CubeSat built by Blue Canyon Technologies for a government customer.
The SpaceX Transporter-8 launch included two 6U CubeSats built by Blue Canyon Technologies for the Department of Defense Modular ISR (MISR) program.
SpaceX targeted Friday, 2023-07-14 at 12:40 a.m. ET (4:40 UTC) for a Falcon 9 launch of 54 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida.
SpaceX scrubbed the Starlink 5-15 mission forty seconds before liftoff on Friday, 2023-07-14 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Senate CJS bill fully funds Orion, the Space Launch System, and ground systems and provides funding to continue Artemis Campaign Development, including Human Landing System awards to SpaceX and Blue Origin.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won NSSL Phase 2 in 2020 and their current contracts will be recompeted under Phase 3.
The Space Force initially planned to award five-year Lane 2 contracts to two providers, modeled after the Phase 2 agreements with ULA and SpaceX.
Optus will work with SpaceX to expand mobile connectivity to include the 60% of Australia’s land mass that currently has no mobile coverage.
The Philippines permitted SpaceX to provide services from its global Starlink low Earth orbit broadband network in 2023.
Vast is working with SpaceX to launch Haven-1 and to use Crew Dragon spacecraft to transport astronauts to the station.
ESA representatives indicated that discussions with SpaceX regarding the Euclid launch began in May of last year.
SpaceX lost several payloads due to failures in the development and certification of its Falcon 9 over the past decade.
The contract for the Falcon 9 launch of Euclid was finalized in late January, months after ESA's initial announcement.