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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Blue Origin and SpaceX are building non-crewed pathfinder versions of their lunar landers for Artemis III.
SpaceX’s original Starship Version 1 was rated at 200 metric tons expendable.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is in talks to act as a $5 billion anchor investor in SpaceX’s IPO.
SpaceX was founded 22 years ago by Elon Musk.
SpaceX says Starship will perform the trans-lunar injection on the Artemis IV landing mission instead of Orion.
SpaceX is developing a crewed lunar version of Starship.
Bob Hines flew a long-duration ISS mission while piloting SpaceX Crew-4.
Artemis III will demonstrate rendezvous and docking with test versions of commercial human landing systems being developed by Blue Origin and SpaceX.
SpaceX's Starfall project focuses on developing and testing specialized reentry vehicles for rapid cargo return and future in-space manufacturing.
NewOrbit has recruited senior engineering talent from SpaceX, NASA, Tesla, and Airbus to its UK base.
The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build a classified low Earth orbit satellite network.
Jared Isaacman flew two private orbital missions with SpaceX.
SpaceX's classified low Earth orbit satellite network is designed to track aircraft, cruise missiles, and other airborne threats.
Federal Aviation Administration documents identified a SpaceX project called Starfall.
The spectrum SpaceX acquired from EchoStar Corporation includes AWS-4, AWS H-Block, and unpaired AWS-3 licenses.
SpaceX filed a confidential S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Final consummation of the SpaceX and EchoStar Corporation spectrum transaction is expected by November 30, 2027.
The FCC approved SpaceX’s acquisition of approximately 65 megahertz of mid-band spectrum from EchoStar Corporation in a $17 billion transaction.
The EchoStar spectrum acquisition underpins SpaceX’s next-generation Direct-to-Device network.
Trade press has reported a SpaceX target valuation ranging from about $1.75 trillion to possibly in excess of $2 trillion.