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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If Ax-2 does not launch by 2023-05-22, the mission will stand down and the organizations will prioritize the SpaceX-28 cargo Dragon mission.
SpaceX and Axiom Space completed a flight readiness review and approved proceeding with a 2023-05-21 launch for the Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station.
Momentus plans to fly its next Vigoride tug on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission launching in October.
Momentus is planning to fly on three SpaceX Transporter rideshare missions in 2024 including Transporter-10, Transporter-11, and Transporter-12.
Momentus signed a services agreement with Lunasonde to deliver a cubesat to orbit from the Vigoride-7 mission targeted for launch in October on the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission.
Momentus signed a contract with SpaceX to reserve a port on the Transporter-12 mission targeted to launch no earlier than October 2024.
Momentus signed a services agreement with Lunasonde to deliver a CubeSat to orbit from the Vigoride-7 mission targeted for launch in October on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission.
Momentus signed a contract with SpaceX to reserve a port on the Transporter-12 mission targeted for launch no earlier than October 2024.
Brightline selected Starlink, which is engineered and operated by SpaceX, as its onboard internet provider.
The astronauts received expeditionary skills training at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California in September.
Vast’s long-term goal is to develop a 100-meter-long multi-module spinning artificial gravity space station launched by SpaceX’s Starship transportation system.
Vast-1 is the first human spaceflight mission to Haven-1 and will use a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX plans to use spectrum from T-Mobile to directly connect standard smartphones to upgraded satellites in its Starlink low Earth orbit constellation.
VAST-1 will fly to Haven-1 in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX will provide crew training on Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft, emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, and partial and full mission simulations including docking and undocking with Haven-1 for return to Earth.
SpaceX received government contracts in 2008 to supply the space station during a period when the company and Elon Musk faced severe cash shortages.
SpaceX will provide crew training on Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft including emergency preparedness, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, and partial and full mission simulations including docking and undocking with Haven-1 for return to Earth.
Vast-1 is the first human spaceflight mission to Haven-1 and will use a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Haven-1 is a precursor for larger space stations Vast proposes to develop that would be launched on SpaceX’s Starship.
Vast’s long-term goal is to develop a 100-meter-long, multi-module, spinning artificial gravity space station launched by SpaceX’s Starship transportation system.