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 raised $250,000,000 in an equity round from undisclosed investors in July 2022, bringing its reported total funding raised so far in 2022 to $2,000,000,000.
Sherpa-LTC is a high-thrust propulsive orbital transfer vehicle designed to deploy from SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
SpaceX offers rideshare opportunities to geostationary transfer orbit and to the moon.
SpaceX launched a second set of Group 3 Starlink satellites on 2022-07-22.
Nanoracks delivered several payloads on SpaceX CRS-25 (SpX-25) in July 2022.
SpaceX launched the first set of Group 3 Starlink satellites on 2022-07-10 from Vandenberg Space Force Base into polar orbit.
Sherpa-LTC will deploy from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 targeting a 310-kilometer circular orbit before igniting to transport a customer payload to a 1,000-kilometer circular orbit.
Sherpa-AC made its debut on SpaceX’s Transporter 5 mission in May 2022 and carried two hosted payloads to their desired orbital destinations.
The Europa Clipper High-Gain Antenna operates on NASA deep space X-band radio frequencies of 7.2 GHz and 8.4 GHz and on Ka-band at 32 GHz.
HANCOM-1, a Spire 6U smallsat carrying an optical payload for HANCOM inSPACE, launched in May 2022 on the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX in February 2021 for the Falcon 9 launch of SPHEREx valued at $98,800,000.
HANCOM-1 launched in May 2022 on the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The KPLO launch was delayed from 2022-08-02 to 2022-08-04 to allow SpaceX to complete additional work on the Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX is engaged in a regulatory dispute with Dish Network over spectrum in the 12 GHz band that Dish Network intends to use to support a terrestrial 0.005 kg network.
SpaceX delayed Crew-5 to no earlier than 2022-09-29 after a Falcon 9 booster destined for the mission sustained damage during shipment from SpaceX’s Hawthorne factory to its McGregor test site.
SES had planned to deploy six of 11 Boeing-built O3b mPower satellites across three SpaceX launches originally scheduled between July and September 2022.
Bronco-Sat 1 was deployed from a second port on the SpaceX Transporter-5 launch.
HANCOM-1, a Spire 6U satellite carrying an optical payload for Hancom, launched in May 2022 on the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SES delayed launches of its O3b mPower constellation satellites, moving planned SpaceX launches from July–September 2022 to October–December 2022.
Vigoride-3 deployed two satellites three days after its 2022-05-25 launch on the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission.