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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On 2022-12-01 the FCC granted Starlink partial approval to operate 7,500 satellites of the nearly 30,000 satellites in SpaceX’s proposed Gen2 constellation.
Spaceflight Inc. is providing launch and integration services for Kleos Space’s fourth satellite cluster, Observer, through ISISPACE Group on SpaceX’s Transporter 6 rideshare mission.
BRO-8 will be launched in January 2023 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of the Transporter-6 mission.
NASA signed a similar spaceflight-safety agreement with SpaceX in March 2021 that includes SpaceX moving Starlink satellites to avoid potential conjunctions with NASA spacecraft.
SpaceX delayed a planned Starlink Falcon 9 launch from Kennedy Space Center on 2022-12-16 to 2022-12-17 to prioritize the O3b mPower satellite launch.
Sidus Space signed a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX for five LizzieSat rideshare missions beginning in 2023.
Spire Global, Inc. will launch six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than January 2023.
SpaceX is slated to launch another pair of O3b mPower satellites later in 2023 and then three O3b mPower satellites on a single Falcon 9 mission in 2024.
SpaceX launched the first O3b mPower satellites for SES’ next-generation broadband constellation on 2022-12-16 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
SpaceX plans to launch two more pairs of O3b mPower satellites early next year to enable SES to start initial O3b mPower services globally by the third quarter of 2023.
Dr. Sian Proctor is a member of the Users’ Advisory Group and was pilot of the Inspiration4 private astronaut mission launched by SpaceX in September 2021.
SpaceX launched NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to low Earth orbit on Friday, 2022-12-16 at 3:46 a.m. PT from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
SpaceX postponed the SWOT launch from 2022-12-15 to 2022-12-16 to perform inspections of two first-stage engines where moisture was noticed.
Sidus Space signed an agreement with Exolaunch to use the CarboNIX separation system to deploy LizzieSat satellites during LizzieSat rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2023 and 2024.
SpaceX prioritized the O3b mPOWER launch and delayed a planned Starlink launch from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A by one day.
In the interim during the Antares hiatus, Northrop Grumman will launch Cygnus missions on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets from Florida.
Spire Global will launch six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than January 2023.
Spaceflight provided launch and integration services for Kleos Space’s fourth satellite cluster, Observer, through ISISPACE Group on SpaceX’s Transporter 6 rideshare mission.
Spaceflight worked with SpaceX, Rocket Lab, PSLV/NSIL, and Astra as launch vehicle providers in 2022.
Amazon Kuiper and SpaceX funded the CSIS report released 2022-12-14.