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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The launch of EROS C3 completed SpaceX’s most active year to date in 2022.
The Plasma Enhancements in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite (petitSat) and Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) arrived at the International Space Station on 2022-11-27 as part of SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA.
SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit on 2022-12-28 at 4:34 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The next Kleos mission, the Patrol Mission (KSF3), is scheduled to launch on SpaceX Transporter-6 and is expected to launch in January 2023.
SpaceX launched the ImageSat International EROS C-3 (Earth Resources Observation Systems C) mission to low Earth orbit on 2022-12-29 at 11:38 p.m. PT from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
BRO-8 will be launched NET January 2023 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of the Transporter-6 mission.
BRO-8 will be launched in January 2023 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of the Transporter-6 mission.
Unseenlabs signed a launch services agreement with Exolaunch to deploy the BRO-8 smallsat on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission.
A follow-on study is being conducted to estimate potential emissions from SpaceX’s Starlink and Starship programs.
NASA and SpaceX entered a Space Act Agreement announced approximately three months before the 2022-12-22 RFI to study a Crew Dragon mission to reboost and possibly service Hubble.
SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than January 2023.
Planet Labs and the Roddenberry Foundation are partnering to launch a flock of Planet's SuperDove satellites into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during the Transporter-6 mission.
NASA selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation of Hawthorne, California to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission.
The omnibus provides $1,486,000,000 for the Human Landing System program to support development of a second lander alongside SpaceX's Starship.
SpaceX requested a 60-day special temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission to connect existing user terminals to upcoming Gen2 satellites in non-geostationary orbit.
SpaceX plans to deploy Gen2 satellites using Falcon 9 rockets and its upcoming Starship heavy-launch vehicle.
SpaceX has launched more than 3,600 Starlink satellites to date using Falcon 9 rockets.
Spaceflight Inc. worked with launch vehicle providers SpaceX, Rocket Lab, PSLV/NSIL, and Astra in 2022.
SpaceX anticipates that it will begin launching Gen2 Starlink satellites before the end of December 2022.
Granting the 60-day STA would enable users to access increased capacity for low-latency broadband services from SpaceX’s upgraded next-generation non-geostationary orbit system as soon as its satellites are deployed.