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 has made changes to prevent pad damage during the upcoming static-fire test.
SpaceX charges $275,000 to launch a 50-kilogram smallsat to sun-synchronous orbit on a Transporter mission.
SpaceX plans to use cellular spectrum from T-Mobile to provide direct-to-smartphone services in the United States and is seeking satellite spectrum to support those ambitions.
Astranis is on track to deliver Anuvu’s first two satellites for a mid-2023 launch aboard a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX launched the Amazonas Nexus telecommunications satellite on 2023-02-06 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX launched the first Falcon 9 Transporter rideshare flight in 2021.
SpaceX’s Starlink constellation reached 3,300 operational satellites in orbit at the end of 2022.
Spacecraft owned and operated by the U.S. government were launched aboard vehicles owned by SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and United Launch Alliance in 2022.
About 50% of SpaceX launches in 2022 supported deployment of the company’s Starlink constellation.
Both payloads will fly to low Earth orbit on a York Space satellite bus scheduled to launch no earlier than April on the SpaceX Transporter 7 rideshare.
SpaceX launched the Amazonas Nexus telecommunications satellite on 2023-02-06 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
SpaceX is pursuing the small-satellite IoT opportunity via the seven-year-old U.S. venture Swarm, which SpaceX bought in 2021.
SpaceX has been working since late 2021 to secure permission to offer its Starlink broadband service in India.
Sidus Space expects to deploy its first 100-kilogram LizzieSat satellites in 2023 from the International Space Station and via SpaceX rideshare missions.
On 2023-02-03 Ovzon postponed the launch of its first owned satellite by at least five months after manufacturing delays forced a switch of launch provider from Arianespace to SpaceX.
NASA selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California to provide commercial payload processing services for agency missions.
SpaceX has received more than $4,000,000,000 from NASA to develop lunar lander versions of Starship for Artemis 3 and Artemis 4.
The first orbital launch of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle is a planned milestone for 2023.
Orbital Sidekick’s first two GHOSt satellites are slated to launch on SpaceX Rideshare Transporter-7 in spring 2023.
SpaceX is slated to launch Inmarsat-6 F2 on a Falcon 9 in mid-February toward an orbital slot covering the Americas.