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 scheduled the next launch opportunity for the ViaSat-3 Americas Falcon Heavy mission for 2023-04-29 at 8:26 p.m. Eastern.
NASA considers SpaceX’s truncated Starship test flight not a major setback to plans to use that vehicle to land astronauts on the moon as soon as 2025.
NASA is preparing to select a second provider this summer to develop a lander for Artemis 5 that would join SpaceX as an HLS provider.
The integrated Starship/Super Heavy vehicle launched from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, test site on 2023-04-20.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued the launch license for the 2023-04-20 Starship flight and must complete an investigation and grant approval before SpaceX can launch again.
Astrobotic’s third lunar mission is targeted to launch in 2026 aboard a Falcon Heavy from SpaceX’s facilities at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
The FAA completed an environmental review for Starship launches in June 2022 that set more than 75 conditions on SpaceX.
Astrobotic’s third lunar mission is targeted to launch in 2026 aboard a Falcon Heavy from SpaceX’s facilities at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
SpaceX will lease Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg Space Force Base to launch Falcon rockets.
SpaceX launched 61 orbital missions in 2022.
Northrop Grumman planned in 2019 to use SLC-6 to launch its Omega solid rocket for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 competition and later discontinued the program after losing NSSL Phase 2 contracts to ULA and SpaceX.
SpaceX operates two launch pads in Florida and one launch site at Starbase in south Texas in addition to its Vandenberg pads.
SpaceX CRS-28 is scheduled to launch on 2023-06-03 and is carrying a pair of new solar arrays for the International Space Station.
The first two of 11 planned SES O3b mPower satellites launched to orbit in December on a SpaceX rocket.
Satellogic Inc. deployed four additional satellites to orbit following SpaceX’s Transporter-7 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
The SpaceX Transporter-7 mission completed on Friday, 2023-04-14 with a two-stage rocket delivering four Satellogic-designed satellites to orbit.
SpaceX’s first integrated Starship vehicle lifted off from the Starbase test site at Boca Chica, Texas, on 2023-04-20 at 9:33 a.m. Eastern.
Spire Global launched three satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The nine satellites were launched on the SpaceX Transporter-7 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Completion of Barry’s final testing was the final gate required for Rogue to have the spacecraft launched on the SpaceX rideshare mission in June 2023.