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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Sidus Space signed a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX for five LizzieSat rideshare missions starting in 2023.
Sidus Space, Inc. signed an agreement with Exolaunch to use Exolaunch’s CarboNIX separation system to deploy LizzieSat satellites during LizzieSat rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2023 and 2024.
OneWeb confirmed the deployment of 40 satellites launched by SpaceX from the Kennedy Space Center.
The iROSA units were launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2022-11-26 onboard the SpaceX-26 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX has won more than $4,000,000,000 in NASA contracts to develop lunar lander versions of Starship for missions as soon as 2025.
The launch rescheduled for March includes eight York Space satellites and two of four SpaceX-Leidos missile-tracking satellites being built for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0.
SpaceX launched more than 3,500 satellites for Starlink’s current generation to date.
SpaceX filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 2022-12-06 to include a direct-to-cellular hosted payload on around 2,000 Gen 2 Starlink satellites.
SpaceX estimated that the total number of Gen 2 satellites serving the United States and its territories simultaneously will typically be between 80 and 100.
SpaceX planned to launch initial direct-to-smartphone services, starting with text messaging, as early as 2024.
SpaceX launched 55 missions in 2022, with more than half of those missions supporting its Starlink low Earth orbit broadband constellation.
SpaceX outlined theoretical peak speeds for the direct-to-cellular service of up to 18.3 megabits per second downlink and 7.2 megabits per second uplink per beam when using a higher bandwidth channel.
SpaceX estimated that less than a third of the 7,500 Gen 2 Starlink satellites approved would be sufficient to provide full and continuous direct-to-smartphone services across much of the globe.
SpaceX delayed its first launch for OneWeb from 2022-12-06 to 2022-12-08 for additional pre-launch checks.
SpaceX projected that at full deployment the hosted payload would provide full and continuous Earth coverage between +58° and -58° latitude by mid-2024.
The FCC granted SpaceX conditional approval to launch 7,500 Gen 2 Starlink satellites while deferring action on the rest of a proposed 30,000-satellite Gen 2 constellation.
SpaceX has launched more than 3,500 Starlink satellites to date.
SpaceX proposed adding a direct-to-smartphone capability to its Gen 2 Starlink broadband constellation using a hosted payload on approximately 2,000 satellites.
SpaceX launched the OneWeb 1 mission to low Earth orbit on 2022-12-08 at 5:27 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX requested additional spectrum from the FCC that could be used for a mobile Starlink satellite service, including spectrum in the 1.6 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands used by Globalstar and the 2 GHz band assigned to Dish Network.