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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NASA is supporting Blue Origin and SpaceX through design, development, testing, and evaluation of their landers.
SpaceX's revised Starship HLS plan for Artemis 4 has Starship perform the translunar injection burn to reach low lunar orbit.
Flight 12 was the first Starship flight in several months and the first to use SpaceX’s newly constructed second launch pad at Starbase.
Starlink is part of SpaceX.
NextBigFuture reported that SpaceX projects Starship launch costs could fall toward approximately $100 per kilogram as the vehicle scales toward 70 or more flights.
Reflex Aerospace plans to launch its mission in the second quarter of 2027 on SpaceX’s Transporter-20 rideshare program.
Starlink is available on Emirates airline flights.
The private office of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud is an investor in SpaceX.
The Artemis III mission will use the lunar version of SpaceX’s Starship for a second phase of tests.
SpaceX's revised Starship HLS plan for Artemis 4 includes a Starship-Orion docking in low Earth orbit.
The Artemis III crew is expected to spend about two days docked with a Blue Origin lander test article and about one day docked with a SpaceX Starship pathfinder.
SpaceX launched the DARK mission on the Transporter-13 rideshare program with D-Orbit in 2025.
Reflex Aerospace’s 200-kg satellite is expected to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-20 rideshare mission in Q2 2027.
During Artemis III, astronauts are expected to meet Blue Origin’s Mark 1 first and SpaceX’s Starship V3 second.
SpaceX’s Starship V3 includes three larger grid fins instead of the prior multi-fin arrangement.
The FCC said Amazon Leo’s delayed deployment would still benefit the American public by providing an alternative broadband service to SpaceX’s Starlink and increasing competition.
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide Starship for Artemis IV’s Moon landing mission.
Artemis III will demonstrate rendezvous and docking operations with commercial lunar landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX.
SpaceX vertically integrates the terminal silicon, antenna stack, and satellite hardware for Starlink.
SpaceX has described Starship Version 3 as its Block 3 configuration.