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 requested authorization from the Federal Communications Commission for another 30,000 satellites and has received FCC authorization for 7,500 satellites so far.
Prior to the U.S. Air Force certifying SpaceX’s Falcon 9 for national security launches in 2015, United Launch Alliance was the U.S. military’s only launch provider.
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) will launch six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than January 2023.
As of November 2022, SpaceX’s Starlink had launched over 3,500 satellites and offered coverage in more than 50 markets across North America, South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
SpaceX launched the first four satellites in Intelsat’s C-band clearing plan over two separate missions earlier 2022.
Northrop Grumman agreed to buy at least three Falcon 9 launches to fly Cygnus cargo spacecraft as a stopgap between Antares retirement and a new version developed with Firefly Aerospace.
SpaceX performed 54 launches in 2022 as of 2022-12-01.
Starlink was operating roughly 3,000 satellites as of the time of the article and SpaceX proposed growing the constellation to more than 30,000 satellites.
The launch of EnduroSat’s Platform-2 carrying Hypernova’s propulsion system is scheduled for December 2022 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-6 mission.
SpaceX’s launch schedule and routine recovery of Falcon 9 first stages and payload fairings created an "elastic launch manifest" that allowed delaying Starlink launches to accommodate additional customers.
The European Space Agency arranged launches of the Euclid astrophysics mission and the Hera asteroid mission on Falcon 9 after those missions lost Soyuz and Ariane 6 launch options.
JINJUSat-1 is targeted to launch aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission no earlier than October 2023.
Sidus Space Inc. 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.
Eight former SpaceX employees filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board on 2022-11-16, alleging illegal firings in 2022-06-01 related to organizing activities protected under federal law.
SpaceX appealed the FCC decision denying nearly $900,000,000 in rural broadband subsidies to Starlink.
SpaceX has more than $4,000,000,000 in NASA awards to develop lunar lander versions of its Starship vehicle and demonstrate them on the Artemis 3 and Artemis 4 missions.
The current Starlink generation required SpaceX to launch satellites at a high cadence to build out the constellation and meet broadband demand.
SpaceX performed a suborbital test flight of Starship from its Boca Chica, Texas, site in December 2020 that violated the terms of its FAA launch license.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 carrying a Japanese lander mission and a NASA cubesat on 2022-12-11.
SpaceX launched ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Lunar Flashlight to a lunar transfer orbit on 2022-12-11 at 2:38 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.