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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NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, 2023-03-14 to launch SpaceX’s 27th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the Florida coast on 2023-03-11, returning four people from the International Space Station.
SpaceX currently operates SLC-13 and built Landing Zones 1 and 2 at that site for Falcon booster landings.
Momentus completed production of Vigoride-6 and shipped it on 2023-03-08 to Vandenberg Space Force Base for integration on the SpaceX Transporter-7 dedicated rideshare mission scheduled for launch in April.
SpaceX deployed 40 satellites for OneWeb on 2023-03-09.
SpaceX provided Starlink services in Ukraine at its own expense and under an agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development rather than under a Department of Defense contract.
SpaceX launched the OneWeb 17 mission to low Earth orbit on 2023-03-09 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX used a Falcon 9 rocket for the OneWeb 17 mission.
SpaceX deployed 40 OneWeb satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during the OneWeb 17 launch.
The Vigoride-6 Orbital Service Vehicle arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for its third demonstration mission targeted to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission next month.
The PRR demonstration mission launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9 on 2023-01-31.
NASA expects Artemis 3 to launch about a year after Artemis 2, contingent on progress with SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander and Axiom Space’s new spacesuits.
In March 2022, NASA ordered six additional missions each from Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, bringing Northrop’s ordered total to 14 missions and SpaceX’s ordered total to 15 missions.
Procurement databases show NASA has obligated about $2,200,000,000 to Northrop Grumman, about $1,100,000,000 to Sierra Space, and about $2,350,000,000 to SpaceX to date for CRS-2 work.
NASA awarded CRS-2 contracts to Northrop Grumman, Sierra Space, and SpaceX in 2016 as successors to the original CRS contracts.
The SpaceX Crew-6 mission launched to the International Space Station at 12:34 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The three satellites for Wyvern are planned to launch in April on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 mission from California aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
Sidus Space signed an agreement with SpaceX to launch on Transporter missions manifested for 2024 and 2025.
Sidus Space expects nine LizzieSats in orbit via SpaceX launches through early 2025.
SpaceX launched the first set of upgraded Starlink satellites for its second-generation constellation on 2023-02-27.