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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Intelsat plans to increase its coverage in the region with the IS-40e satellite that SpaceX is slated to launch in April on a Falcon 9.
SES-18 and SES-19 were launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:38 p.m. local time on 2023-03-17.
Ax-3 will use a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, as did Ax-1 and Ax-2.
Tiger-3 is a 6U cubesat built by NanoAvionics and launched in April 2022 aboard SpaceX’s fourth Falcon 9 dedicated rideshare mission.
STP-H9 is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Service (CRS)-27 mission aboard a Cargo Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 2023-03-14.
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft launched 2023-03-14 and is en route to the International Space Station carrying supplies and experiments.
Tiger-2 is a 6U cubesat built by NanoAvionics and launched in June 2021 aboard SpaceX’s second Falcon 9 dedicated rideshare mission.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched carrying Dragon’s 27th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-27) mission to the International Space Station on 2023-03-14 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Pale Blue’s water-based propulsion system aboard EYE was launched by SpaceX on 2023-01-03.
XipLink Inc. unveiled a cloud network service named XipNet that provides intelligent aggregation of SpaceX Starlink LEO, traditional GEO/MEO satellites, and 0.004 kg/0.005 kg cellular data links into a single bandwidth pool for remote sites.
Artemis 4 will feature a lunar landing using SpaceX’s Starship, will use the lunar Gateway, and will be the first launch of the upgraded Block 1B version of SLS with additional payload capacity used to deliver the I-Hab habitation module to the Gateway.
SpaceX plans to start testing direct-to-smartphone services 2023.
SpaceX partnered with T-Mobile in August to use T-Mobile’s spectrum for direct-to-device services in the United States.
SpaceX’s plans to deploy larger, more powerful Starlink satellites are tied to regulatory approval and successful tests of the Starship heavy launch vehicle being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
SpaceX plans to start initial direct-to-device text messaging services as early as 2024.
The NASA manifest in the fiscal year 2024 budget documents shows Artemis 3 launching in December 2025 and including the first human lunar landing of Artemis using SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander and spacesuits developed by Axiom Space.
SpaceX is building six satellites per day and producing thousands of Starlink user terminals per day for the constellation.
Jonathan Hofeller, vice president of commercial sales for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband constellation, declined to commit to timing for SpaceX’s direct-to-device plans, including higher-bandwidth services.
The Andalusian satellite is planned to launch in 2023 on a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX if it passes assembly and readiness tests.
The 2022-07-14 SpaceX Dragon on the company’s 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station carried more than 2,631 kg of cargo.