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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AST SpaceMobile has an agreement with SpaceX that provides options for booking Falcon 9 or Starship launches until the end of 2024.
At a launch cadence of 100 satellites per mission and weekly launches, it would take SpaceX about 10 years to launch more than 55,000 approved satellites.
The first mission is scheduled no sooner than November 2022 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to deploy a batch of four 3U satellites.
Masten received a stalking-horse bid of $4,200,000 from Astrobotic that includes a SpaceX launch credit valued at $14,000,000.
SpaceX terminated an existing launch contract with Masten on 2025-06-30, because of missed payments but agreed to provide an assignable credit for the amount Masten had paid to date.
SpaceX is scheduled to launch two satellites for Lynk Global in November 2022.
AST SpaceMobile has an agreement with SpaceX that provides a framework for ordering additional launches up until the end of 2024.
The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command awarded SpaceX a $1,900,000 one-year contract to evaluate Starlink internet services in Europe and Africa.
SpaceX will launch the Maxar-provided power and propulsion element and Northrop Grumman’s HALO module on a Falcon Heavy rocket in late 2024.
Spaceflight debuted Sherpa-AC, a version for hosting payloads with attitude control, on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission in May 2022.
SpaceX’s Transporter-2 mission in June 2021 deployed a Sherpa-FX2 and a Sherpa-LTE.
Momentus has reserved ports on three SpaceX Transporter launches in 2023 for additional Vigoride missions and is working on Vigoride-5, Vigoride-6, and Vigoride-7.
SpaceX is slated to launch Sherpa-LTC2 as part of a mission deploying a batch of Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit this fall.
SpaceX is slated to launch a Sherpa-ES designed to swing around the Moon to deliver payloads to geostationary orbit in mid-2023.
The third technical area selected five teams—Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), Telesat, SpaceLink, Viasat, and Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC, an Amazon subsidiary—to identify critical command and control elements and develop the schema necessary to interface between Space-BACN and commercial partner constellations.
SpaceX’s provisional RDOF winning share covered nearly 643,000 homes and businesses in 35 states.
SpaceX has launched more than 2,700 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit to improve service and coverage.
Ookla reported that median download speeds for SpaceX’s Starlink improved 38% to 90.55 Mbps in the first quarter of 2022 compared with the corresponding quarter in 2021.
SpaceX was provisionally awarded nearly $900,000,000 in RDOF subsidies in December 2020 after competing in an auction under phase one of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.
SpaceX is providing orbit data from Starlink satellites to SWPC to improve atmospheric density estimations.