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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SpaceX’s Crew-6 mission is scheduled to launch 2023-02-26 and arrive at the International Space Station a day later.
The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking to fine SpaceX $175,000 for failing to provide collision avoidance data before a Falcon 9 launch.
SpaceX and the Indian Space Research Organisation are each planning to launch a batch of OneWeb satellites around the end of February and early March 2023.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won NSSL Phase 2 in 2020 and their current Phase 2 contracts will be re-competed.
Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
NASA is scheduled to launch the Crew-6 mission to the ISS on 2023-02-26 using a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
SpaceX concluded it needed to start launching Starship and better understand the vehicle before building offshore launch platforms.
SpaceX is building another Starship launch site at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.
SpaceX acquired two oil rigs in 2020 and named them Phobos and Deimos.
The first group of FOSSA’s next-generation satellites is slated to launch aboard a Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle on the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission no earlier than June 2023.
Open Cosmos launched the Menut Earth observation satellite aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission on 2023-01-03.
SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster ignited its engines at about 4:14 p.m. Eastern at the company’s Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas.
SpaceX's immediate goal is to get Starship to orbit as soon as possible.
A successful static-fire test could enable SpaceX to attempt an orbital launch a month later.
SpaceX has a goal of conducting 100 Falcon launches in 2023.
Elon Musk later reversed course and SpaceX continued offering Starlink service to Ukraine despite ongoing financial losses.
SpaceX will attempt a static-fire test of all 33 engines in its Starship booster on February 9.
Starship is essential to SpaceX's long-term plans, including deploying a second generation of the Starlink constellation.
SpaceX aims for Starship to achieve a flight rate similar to that of aircraft, targeting dozens of launches per day.
The FCC grant for Kuiper follows SpaceX’s conditional approval to launch up to a quarter of a proposed 30,000-satellite Starlink Gen2 constellation.