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 offers Falcon Heavy at a commercial list price of $97,000,000 after increasing the price earlier 2022 from $90,000,000 citing inflation.
OneWeb and SpaceX use 12 GHz frequencies to connect their competing non-geostationary orbit broadband satellite constellations to user terminals.
SDA ordered the first eight Tracking Layer satellites (Tranche 0) in 2020 from L3Harris and SpaceX.
Georgia approved SpaceX’s Starlink broadband constellation on 2022-07-14.
SpaceX targeted Thursday, 2022-07-14 for Falcon 9’s launch of the CRS-25 mission with liftoff targeted for 8:44 p.m. ET (00:44 UTC on 2022-07-15) from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
SpaceX launched a batch of 46 Starlink satellites on 2022-07-10 on a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX has launched more than 2,800 Starlink satellites to date to expand the low Earth orbit constellation globally.
The CRS-25 mission had been scheduled to launch in early June but was postponed after NASA and SpaceX detected elevated hydrazine vapor readings in the Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system.
The SpaceX CRS-26 Dragon mission is scheduled to follow later in the year and will deliver a set of solar arrays to be installed on the station by spacewalking astronauts.
A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft launched 2022-07-14 after a delay of more than a month caused by a hydrazine leak on the spacecraft.
SpaceX planned a dedicated Starlink mission for 2022-07-17 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
SpaceX has been launching non-geostationary satellites to expand coverage and availability of its Starlink constellation.
SpaceX’s Starlink and China’s GuoWang together account for 53% of the projected smallsat unit demand over 2022–2031.
A test of the booster for SpaceX’s first orbital Starship vehicle on 2022-07-11 ended with flames erupting from the base of the Super Heavy booster called Booster 7.
The FAA completed an environmental assessment on 2022-06-13 allowing Starship launches to proceed but requires SpaceX to implement dozens of measures to mitigate environmental effects.
Video of testing at SpaceX’s Starbase complex in Boca Chica, Texas showed a burst of flames at the base of Booster 7 around 5:20 p.m. Eastern.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:44 p.m. EDT on Thursday, 2022-07-14, to launch the agency’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) to the International Space Station.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:14 a.m. on 2021-08-29, carrying the Dragon spacecraft for NASA and SpaceX’s 23rd commercial resupply services mission.
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the international crew.
NASA and SpaceX targeted 8:44 p.m. EDT on Thursday, 2022-07-14, for the launch of NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) to the International Space Station.