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 launched a Spire satellite carrying the Hancom-1 payload on a Falcon 9 Transporter-5 rideshare mission in May.
Bronco-Sat 1 was deployed from a second port on the SpaceX Transporter-5 launch.
Momentus deployed two satellites from Vigoride-3 three days after its 2022-05-25 launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
Momentus is moving ahead with its next vehicle, Vigoride-5, scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission in November 2022.
Momentus is implementing corrective actions on the Vigoride-5 vehicle that it plans to fly on SpaceX Transporter-6.
Momentus has agreements with SpaceX for Vigoride launches on Transporter missions in 2022 and 2023.
Ax-2 crew members will train with NASA, international partners, and SpaceX, which Axiom Space has contracted as the launch provider for transportation to and from the space station.
In space operations, the CJS report calls on NASA to certify another commercial crew provider in addition to Boeing and SpaceX and offers $50,000,000 for that work.
Masten Space Systems owes SpaceX $4,600,000 according to the Chapter 11 filing.
The U.S. Space Development Agency awarded SpaceX a $149,000,000 contract and L3Harris a $193,500,000 contract in October 2020 to each build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
SpaceX applied to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 2022-07-25 for permission to use the 2 GHz spectrum band to augment its mobile satellite services.
I-6 F2 is due to be launched in 2023-01-01 by SpaceX.
Terran Orbital assembled, integrated, and tested the PTD-3 spacecraft prior to its launch aboard SpaceX Transporter-5.
Tom Mueller, a founding member of SpaceX, launched Impulse Space in September 2021.
In May, SpaceX launched a satellite built by Blue Canyon Technologies for MIT Lincoln Laboratory that aims to test operations in VLEO for several months.
NASA awarded a NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, California to provide launch service for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission.
The contract awarded to SpaceX for the Roman launch and other mission-related costs is valued at $255,000,000.
NASA selected SpaceX on 2022-07-19 to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy in 2026-10-01 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA awarded SpaceX a Falcon Heavy contract for the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter in 2024 valued at $178,000,000.
A September 2021 contract for the Falcon Heavy launch of the GOES-U weather satellite in 2024 is worth $152,500,000.