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 launched a Falcon 9 carrying Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 2022-11-12 at 11:06 a.m. Eastern.
Galaxy 17 provides Ku-band services that the Maxar-built Intelsat 40e satellite is slated to replace following its SpaceX launch next year.
The Falcon 9 booster used for the Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 mission completed its 14th flight, tying SpaceX’s reuse record.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the Intelsat G-31/G-32 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Saturday, 2022-11-12 at 11:06 a.m. ET.
SpaceX plans to expand partnerships with mobile operators beyond T-Mobile to provide global direct-to-smartphone services in 2025.
SpaceX plans to use Starlink broadband satellites to connect with unmodified smartphones to enable services starting with text as early as 2024.
Momentus’ Vigoride 5 is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 rideshare mission in December on a Falcon 9 from Florida.
More than 50 telecommunications companies have reached out to SpaceX about partnering to provide direct-to-smartphone services.
The United Kingdom gave SpaceX permission on 2022-11-10 to expand its Starlink satellite broadband network in the country.
The Space Development Agency's goal is to deploy 28 satellites in two SpaceX-contracted launches, one in December and one in March.
The December mission is expected to carry four Tracking Layer satellites built by SpaceX and an unspecified number of Transport Layer satellites built by Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems.
Viasat is working with SpaceX to target a launch of the first ViaSat-3 in the earlier part of the first quarter of 2023, contingent on the timing of some U.S. national priority launches using the same Falcon Heavy launchpad.
Viasat expects the first ViaSat-3 satellite to be shipped from Boeing’s manufacturing facilities in California to SpaceX’s launchpad in Florida in time for a launch in the first quarter of 2023.
The April 2023 CFT date avoids a scheduling conflict with SpaceX Crew-6, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in mid-February 2023.
SpaceX had initially been slated to start launching the 11-satellite O3b mPower constellation in 2021.
Hotbird 13F, the twin of Hotbird 0.013 kg, was launched by SpaceX to geostationary transfer orbit on 2022-10-15 and is also en route to 13 degrees east.
The Falcon 9 booster used for the Hotbird 0.013 kg launch had previously been used in six other SpaceX missions, including cargo and crew deliveries to the International Space Station, launching a Turkish satellite, and deploying a batch of Starlink spacecraft.
SpaceX launched the second of two satellites for Eutelsat on 2022-11-03 to replenish one of the largest broadcast systems in Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa.
SpaceX launched the Eutelsat HOTBIRD 0.013 kg satellite to geosynchronous orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, 2022-11-02.
SpaceX’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0 satellites are projected to launch in December.