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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Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California is collaborating with NASA on an integrated LEO architecture that includes Dragon evolution, concurrent Starship development, Starship as a transportation and in-space LEO destination element supported by Super Heavy, Dragon, and Starlink, and constituent capabilities including crew and cargo transportation, communications, and operational and ground support.
OneWeb selected SpaceX as its launch provider, illustrating SpaceX's dominance in the commercial space market.
The first two Jackal satellites are scheduled to launch to low Earth orbit in February 2024 on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare.
Vast-1 is the first crewed mission to Haven-1 and will dock with Haven-1 for 30 days while orbiting the Earth using a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX built the first tracking satellites in SDA’s Tranche 0 and those tracking satellites captured infrared images using wide-field-of-view sensors.
SpaceX launched the 4.6-metric-ton Satria-1 spacecraft on 2023-06-18 at 6:21 p.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
HOTSAT-1 launched with SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2023-06-12 and is on-orbit with initial communication established.
PSN is set to operate the geostationary Nusantara Lima satellite (also known as Nusantara 5), which Boeing is building for a SpaceX launch later 2023.
SpaceX launched the PSN SATRIA mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit on 2023-06-18 at 6:21 p.m. ET.
Rocket Lab’s spacecraft for Varda launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission on 2023-06-12 at 14:35 PDT (21:35 UTC).
MuSat-1 launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 2023-06-12.
Bright Ascension Ltd. had three flight software deployments launched aboard the SpaceX Transporter 8 mission on 2023-06-12.
Transporter-8 was the first Falcon 9 rideshare launch to utilize SpaceX's modular Rideshare Plates.
SpaceX’s Transporter 8 mission launched on 2023-06-12.
SpaceX's Transporter-8 rideshare mission lifted off on a Falcon 9 on 2023-06-12 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA.
Grégoire launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-06-12.
SpaceX had been slated to launch the fifth and sixth of 11 Boeing-built O3b mPower satellites from Florida in early June.
Under Multi-Launch Agreements with SpaceX, Exolaunch provided EXOpod and EXOpod Nova deployers and CarboNIX separation systems for Transporter-8.
Aerospacelab and Exolaunch initiated a Multi-Launch Agreement that will enable the launch of seven of Aerospacelab’s Versatile Satellite Platforms via SpaceX’s Falcon 9 through 2023 and 2024.
MuSat-1 launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 2023-06-12.