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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Crew-5 is the sixth SpaceX flight with NASA astronauts, including the Demo-2 test flight in 2020 as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
The July seat barter agreement includes seat exchanges between Soyuz and Crew Dragon missions in 2023 and 2024.
Arianespace and SpaceX are lined up to launch Intelsat’s C-band replacement satellites starting 2022-10-06.
SpaceX conducted an in-house study in June that warned Starlink would be unusable for most Americans if a high-power 0.005 kg mobile service operates using 12 GHz band frequencies nationwide.
SpaceX postponed the Starlink launch at Vandenberg from 2022-10-03 to provide additional time for pre-launch checks and initially rescheduled it for 2022-10-04 with a further delay planned if Crew-5 remained on schedule for 2022-10-05.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with four people on board launched to the International Space Station on 2022-10-05.
The next SpaceX crewed launch is Polaris Dawn, which was originally scheduled for late 2022 and is now planned for no earlier than March 2023.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won NSSL Phase 2 in 2020.
SpaceX is slated to launch Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 7:07 p.m. Eastern on 2022-10-06.
SpaceX requested that the Federal Communications Commission reject the proposed terrestrial 0.005 kg plans in the 12 GHz band.
SpaceX is slated to launch two more C-band replacement satellites for SES on Falcon 9 toward the end of the year.
The effort to develop crew and cargo capability at SLC-40 is driven by SpaceX’s work to host Starship launches at LC-39A.
SpaceX intends to operate cargo launches from SLC-40 first before adding crew launches at a later time.
SpaceX originally launched cargo Dragon missions from SLC-40 before moving second-generation cargo Dragon launches to LC-39A.
NASA and SpaceX completed the launch readiness review on 2022-10-03 for the Crew-5 mission.
SpaceX continued testing Starship prototypes at its Boca Chica, Texas, test site, including static-fire tests of the Starship vehicle and the Super Heavy booster.
EnerStar Solutions reached a deal on 2022-10-03 to add SpaceX’s Starlink broadband to the services it provides industrial workers.
SpaceX is starting work to upgrade Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to host cargo and crew launches as a complement to LC-39A.
Space Machines Company’s roll out mission in 2023-04-01 will use SpaceX as its launch provider.
NASA and SpaceX announced on 2022-09-29 an unfunded Space Act Agreement to explore using a Crew Dragon spacecraft to reboost Hubble.