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 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.
SpaceX conducted a wet dress rehearsal on 2023-01-23 in which Booster 7 and Ship 24 were loaded with propellants and taken through a practice countdown.
SpaceX CRS-27 cargo Dragon is scheduled to launch about 12 days after Crew-6, subject to slipping if there are delays in the return of Crew-5.
SpaceX launched Lynk’s latest two satellites on 2023-01-03 using a deployer mechanism Lynk developed that can deploy six at a time.
SpaceX destacked Ship 24 from Booster 7 on 2023-01-25 as part of preparations for the Super Heavy booster static-fire test.
SpaceX is slated to launch the Amazonas Nexus geostationary satellite on 2023-02-05 from Cape Canaveral, Florida on a Falcon 9.
Another SpaceX cargo Dragon will follow Ax-2 to deliver solar arrays to the station.
NASA has provided SpaceX with more than $4,000,000,000 in awards through its Human Landing System program to develop versions of Starship to land astronauts on the moon for the Artemis campaign.
SpaceX performed the fueling test at the Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas.
SpaceX has requested a Federal Communications Commission license to transmit signals from gateway stations to nearly 30,000 Starlink second-generation satellites in the 81 to 86 gigahertz band.
Alpha is one of four NanoAvionics-built satellites deployed to low Earth orbit on SpaceX Transporter-6.
The 186 launches that attempted to reach orbit in 2022 carried about 2,500 satellites in total, nearly 70% of which were Starlink broadband satellites that SpaceX does not insure.