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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Orbital Sidekick is acquiring imagery from its first two satellites launched in April on the SpaceX Transporter-7 rideshare flight.
Umbra is scheduled to launch two additional SAR satellites later 2023 on the SpaceX Transporter 9 rideshare mission.
The SpaceX Dragon will autonomously dock at the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module around 9:16 a.m. on Monday, 2023-05-22.
SpaceX is scheduled to launch up to three more crewed missions in 2023: NASA’s Crew-7, the Polaris Dawn private astronaut mission, and Axiom’s Ax-3 mission.
Inspiration4 was a private astronaut mission launched by SpaceX in 2021 that spent three days in space without docking with the International Space Station.
SpaceX launched Iridium NEXT satellites between 2017 and 2019 and also launched nine in-orbit spares for Iridium.
The 2023-05-20 mission was postponed by one day for reasons SpaceX did not disclose.
OneWeb successfully deployed 16 satellites on the 2023-05-20 SpaceX launch to increase resilience and redundancy in the OneWeb constellation.
SpaceX’s Starship used liquid oxygen and methane on its 2023-04-20 launch.
SpaceX launched a technology demonstration satellite for OneWeb’s second-generation broadband constellation on 2023-05-20.
SpaceX launched several Falcon 9 missions to polar orbits from Florida in recent years.
The November Option B action brought the total value of SpaceX’s HLS work to more than $4,000,000,000.
NASA exercised Option B in SpaceX’s HLS award in November, a contract action valued at $1,150,000,000.
SpaceX asserts that Dish Network’s plan to use the 12 GHz band for terrestrial 0.005 kg would deny Starlink’s satellite broadband network to most Americans.
Artemis 3 and Artemis 4 will use SpaceX’s Starship for lunar surface landings.
Rivada Space Networks has programs with Terran Orbital and SpaceX to manufacture and launch its satellites.
NASA is working with SpaceX to develop landers for the Artemis III and Artemis IV missions.
Momentus holds reservations on SpaceX Transporter-10, -11, and -12 missions in 2024, with the most recent reservation originating from a contract announced 2023-05-12 that covers missions through 2024-10-01.
SpaceX has obtained additional Falcon 9 performance margins from experience launching Starlink satellites, enabling some crewed missions to return boosters to land.
SpaceX-28 is a cargo Dragon mission currently scheduled to launch on 2024-06-03 and remain at the ISS for about a month.