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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Tranche 0 consists of 28 satellites including 20 communications payloads made by Lockheed Martin and York Space and eight missile-tracking infrared sensor satellites made by SpaceX and L3Harris.
Speedcast signed a distribution deal with SpaceX to resell Starlink broadband services to enterprise and maritime customers on 2022-09-13 during World Satellite Business Week in Paris.
Spaceflight and Astrocast partnered to launch five additional nanosatellites on SpaceX Transporter-1 in January 2021.
NASA plans to launch a crew to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew-5 commercial crew mission on 2022-10-03 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
Spaceflight and Astrocast partnered to launch an additional five smallsats on SpaceX Transporter-1 in January 2021.
SpaceX has launched more than a thousand satellites for Starlink since the beginning of 2022.
At the auction, Intuitive Machines offered $2,725,000 for a SpaceX launch credit that is valued at $14,000,000 and limited to companies holding NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts.
SpaceX launched AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite on 2022-09-10 at 9:20 p.m. ET.
SpaceX launched 34 Starlink satellites to enhance the Starlink constellation on 2022-09-10 at 9:20 p.m. ET.
SpaceX conducted eight Iridium launches between January 2017 and January 2019.
SpaceX’s eight Iridium launches between January 2017 and January 2019 delivered 75 satellites to low Earth orbit as part of the Iridium NEXT campaign.
SpaceX and T-Mobile entered a partnership on 2022-08-25 for second-generation Starlink satellites to provide connectivity to cellphones using T-Mobile spectrum, with launches expected to start next year.
BAE Systems is closing in on securing a launch contract with SpaceX to deploy the first Azalea cluster in 2024.
OneWeb’s launches under contracts with ISRO and SpaceX are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2022 and to be completed by the second quarter of 2023.
SWOT is slated for launch no earlier than 2022-12-05 atop a Falcon 9 vehicle operated by SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft delivered MISSE-16 to the International Space Station on 2022-07-16.
OQ Technology launched its third satellite mission, Tiger-3, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-4 rideshare mission earlier in 2025.
Pixxel launched its first satellite as part of SpaceX’s April Transporter-4 payload.
A February extension to SpaceX’s CCtCap contract added three flights, Crew-7 through Crew-9, for $776 million, or $258,700,000 per flight.
The total value of SpaceX’s CCtCap contract, originally awarded in 2014 to complete development and testing of Crew Dragon followed by six operational missions, is now $4,930,000,000.