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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The Starship vehicle was fully stacked on the pad at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, as of 2023-04-06.
SpaceX is planning a launch rehearsal for the Starship vehicle at its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, the week following 2023-04-06, followed by a first integrated flight test about a week later pending regulatory approval.
The FCC had previously approved 7,500 of SpaceX’s planned 29,988 satellites.
SpaceX’s new proposal specifies creating 288 orbital planes with altitudes ranging from 614 km down to 340 km.
SpaceX launched the Intelsat IS-40E mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday, 2023-04-07.
The Aries satellite bus is scheduled to fly for the first time on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission targeted for no earlier than January 2024.
Apex will launch its first Aries satellite on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission scheduled for launch no earlier than January 2024.
SpaceX is slated to launch Badr-8 in May on a Falcon 9 to replace and expand Arabsat’s C-band and Ku-band capacity at 26 degrees east.
BRO-9 will be launched in April 2023 on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SpaceX will use the Starship launch and landing system for the mission carrying Astrolab’s FLEX rover as soon as mid-2026.
Artemis 3 is scheduled to launch no earlier than December 2025 pending development of SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander and new lunar spacesuits by Axiom Space.
SpaceX launched the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket on 2023-04-02 at 7:29 a.m. PT (14:29 UTC).
Momentus is preparing to launch Vigoride-6 on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 rideshare mission in April.
SpaceX and L3Harris will each provide four Tracking satellites to fully populate the Tranche 0 Tracking layer for a total of eight Tracking satellites.
SpaceX first attempted to launch the mission 2023-03-30 but the launch was aborted three seconds before liftoff when an automatic abort was triggered by one of the first-stage engines.
The 2023-04-02 launch was the first of two dedicated launches to be performed by SpaceX under a 2020-12-01 $150,000,000 contract with the Space Development Agency for Tranche 0 satellites.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off 2023-04-02 at 10:29 a.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California carrying 10 military satellites, including two built by SpaceX.
The Tranche 0 mission included two infrared sensor satellites built by SpaceX and Leidos that will be part of the Tracking Layer to detect and track missiles in flight.
Momentus is preparing to launch Vigoride-6 on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 rideshare mission in April.
Momentus completed an initial test sequence of the Microwave Electrothermal Thruster on its Vigoride-5 vehicle launched in January on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission.