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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Since the beginning of SpaceX’s dedicated rideshare program in 2021, Exolaunch has used EXOport adapters to mount and cluster satellites on a single Falcon 9 rideshare port.
TrustPoint launched its first satellite on 2023-04-15 on the SpaceX Transporter-7 rideshare flight.
SpaceX increased its Transporter rideshare price for a 200-kilogram satellite from $1,000,000 at the beginning of 2022 to $1,300,000.
Exolaunch provides capacity for customers on Falcon 9 rideshare missions under a Multi-Launch Agreement with SpaceX first signed in 2020 and subsequently expanded.
Under EELV Phase 1A in 2019 the Air Force awarded three missions to ULA at an average of $147,200,000 per launch and three missions to SpaceX at an average of $99,000,000 per launch.
SpaceLogistics plans to launch the 3,000-kilogram MRV to geostationary transfer orbit along with three 400-kilogram Mission Extension Pods on a SpaceX launch vehicle in late 2024.
The June 2022 environmental review required SpaceX to carry out more than 75 mitigations related to Starship launches from Boca Chica.
Under NSSL Phase 2 the Space Systems Command ordered nine missions from ULA for $1,100,000,000 (about $122,000,000 per launch) and six missions from SpaceX for $774,000,000 (about $129,000,000 per launch).
SpaceX is slated to launch a fourth pair of O3b mPower satellites before the end of 2023.
A second pair of O3b mPower satellites for upgrading SES’ medium Earth orbit broadband network is due to arrive at their SpaceX launchpad in Florida 2023-04-10.
Iridium held a contract for up to six Terran 1 launches of replacement satellites and contracted five of those remaining spares to SpaceX in September 2022, leaving at most one launch with Relativity.
SpaceX is slated to launch a fourth pair of O3b mPower satellites before the end of 2023.
Aegis Aerospace celebrated the successful 2023-03-14 launch of two major space payloads onboard SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Service (CRS)-27 mission to the International Space Station.
IS-40e was launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:30 a.m. EDT.
A second pair of O3b mPower satellites for upgrading SES’ medium Earth orbit broadband network are due to arrive at SpaceX’s launchpad in Florida 2023-04-10.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Ax-2 crew aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX launched SES-18 and SES-19 on 2023-03-17.
SpaceX began advertising $57,000,000 Falcon 9 launches more than a decade ago.
SpaceX increased prices in 2022 for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches as well as for Starlink broadband and smallsat rideshare services.
SpaceX launched Intelsat’s IS-40e communications satellite on 2023-04-07 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida at 12:30 a.m. Eastern.