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 President Gwynne Shotwell fired a number of employees involved with the 2024-06-15 open letter, according to an internal memo to employees dated 2024-06-16.
SpaceX initially did not provide video of the payload after fairing separation on the 2024-06-19 launch but provided video after the second upper-stage burn that showed the Globalstar satellite and a payload adapter.
SpaceX completed three successful launches in a little more than 36 hours early on 2024-06-19.
Starlink version 1.5 satellites lack the visors that SpaceX installed on satellites in 2020 to block sunlight from reflective surfaces and reduce brightness as seen from the ground.
Kleos’ fourth satellite cluster, Observer, is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission.
Kleos Space’s Observer Mission (KSF3) satellites are manifested to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission NET October 2022.
NASA reassigned Nicole Mann in October 2021 to the SpaceX Crew-5 mission scheduled to launch this September.
The Space Force awarded United Launch Alliance and SpaceX five-year National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts in 2020 to launch collectively as many as 35 NSSL missions.
Blue Origin lost national security launch awards in 2020 to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
Kleos Space's Observer Mission (KSF3) satellites are manifested to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission NET October 2022.
Momentus’ Vigoride-3 orbital transfer vehicle launched 2022-05-25 on the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission.
SpaceX has been using Falcon 9 rockets to launch batches of typically 53 Starlink satellites per mission.
SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to add nearly 30,000 additional Ku-band satellites to improve its broadband services.
SpaceX and OneWeb reached a spectrum coordination plan on 2022-06-13 that would enable their current and second-generation broadband megaconstellations to coexist.
SpaceX raised nearly $1,680,000,000 through a private offering of shares to fund investments in Starlink and Starship.
SpaceX has FCC permission to deploy 4,408 Ku-band satellites in low Earth orbit for its Starlink network.
OneWeb signed launch contracts with SpaceX and the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation to resume launches in 2022.
SpaceX is seeking to block Viasat’s $7,300,000,000 plan to acquire British satellite operator Inmarsat.
Kleos’ KSF3 mission was originally booked with Spaceflight Inc. for a mid-2022 launch but was moved to SpaceX’s Transporter-6 and will deploy from an ISILAUNCH integrated port after Spaceflight encountered a vibration issue with their original deployment method.
SpaceX asserts that Viasat is using Ka-band frequencies designated for non-geostationary orbit operators on a primary basis without first meeting FCC conditions.