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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Connecta T2.1 will be launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-7 mission.
Unseenlabs will launch BRO-9 in April 2023 on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 mission aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Connecta T1.1 was launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-5 mission.
The Tranche 0 mission carried two infrared sensor satellites built by SpaceX and Leidos to detect and track hypersonic missiles in flight.
SpaceX scrubbed the Tranche 0 launch 2023-03-30 with an abort called three seconds before the planned liftoff.
SpaceX won a $149,000,000 contract in October 2020 to build four Tracking Layer satellites.
A SpaceX cargo Dragon mission is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in June and will occupy the docking port the Starliner would use.
Two Tracking Layer satellites built under the October 2020 SpaceX contract will launch in June.
A launch occurring late in SpaceX’s announced July–September launch window for Ovzon 3 may require additional approvals.
Ovzon secured a deadline extension on 2023-03-28 enabling it to keep priority spectrum rights for its first broadband satellite Ovzon 3 if it launches early enough in a July–September launch window set by SpaceX.
Astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell tracked that SpaceX had launched 4,105 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit before this mission, more than 3,750 of which were operational.
SpaceX has launched a total of 120 satellites for OneWeb over three Falcon 9 missions since December.
Ken Bowersox was vice president of astronaut safety and mission assurance at SpaceX from 2009 to 2011.
SpaceX’s third and final dedicated Falcon 9 mission for OneWeb launched on 2023-03-09 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
SpaceX’s website tool later listed the cost for a 200-kilogram rideshare satellite at $1,300,000 with the earliest flight opportunity in the second quarter of 2025.
SpaceX increased its rideshare launch service price by 10% from $1,000,000 for a 200-kilogram satellite to $1,100,000 at the same time it raised dedicated launch prices.
SpaceX publishes list prices for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches and raised those published prices by 8% a year ago.
SpaceX is building a Starship launch pad at Launch Complex 39A and has constructed a launch tower that overshadows the existing Falcon pad.
SES-18 and SES-19 were launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:38 pm local time on Friday, 2023-03-17.
Exolaunch signed a Multi-Launch Agreement (MLA) with SpaceX in 2020 and later extended it to include new missions.