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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NASA officials met with SpaceX to discuss the investigation into elevated MMH vapor readings detected after the spacecraft was fueled ahead of a launch planned for 2025-06-10.
SpaceX has a separate FCC authorization to launch 7,500 V-band satellites for Starlink.
SpaceX is developing the Starship heavy-lift launch vehicle in Texas and considers Starship critical to its plan to upgrade the Starlink constellation.
A SpaceX cargo Dragon mission to the International Space Station has a planned launch no earlier than 2025-07-11.
The Federal Aviation Administration completed a review on 2022-06-13 that enables Starship orbital launches from Texas if SpaceX implements dozens of environmental and public-impact mitigations.
SpaceX modified its Boca Chica proposal to eliminate planned infrastructure including a desalination plant and a power plant.
SpaceX aims to launch the prototype for AST SpaceMobile’s cellphone-compatible broadband constellation in the week of 2022-08-15.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact for SpaceX’s proposal to perform orbital launches of its Starship vehicle from Boca Chica, Texas on 2022-06-13.
One mitigation requires changes to closures of the road that leads to the SpaceX Starbase site and a nearby public beach.
Momentus has agreements signed with SpaceX for launches on upcoming Transporter missions in 2022 and 2023, including Transporter-6 currently targeted for November 2022.
The mitigated FONSI clears SpaceX to conduct orbital launches from its Boca Chica site from an environmental-review standpoint once SpaceX implements more than 75 mitigation measures.
The Falcon 9 booster that supported the Nilesat 301 launch had previously supported six earlier SpaceX launches, including two missions to the International Space Station and missions carrying GPS navigation and Starlink broadband satellites.
SpaceX launched Nilesat 301 to geosynchronous transfer orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket at 5:04 p.m. Eastern on 2022-06-09 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX has been raising billions of dollars from private investors to help expand Starlink’s coverage worldwide.
SpaceX has launched more than 2,600 satellites for the Starlink constellation to date.
SpaceX raised prices for Starlink earlier 2022, increasing the U.S. terminal price from $499 to $549 and monthly service from $99 to $110.
SpaceX is unlikely to offer shares in its broadband company Starlink to the public until 2025 or later.
SpaceX has more than 2,400 Starlink satellites in orbit after launching the first batch of the spacecraft in May 2019.
Satellite Vu has a launch deal with SpaceX for the first satellite of its heat-sensing constellation to be launched on a Falcon 9 rocket in early 2023.
Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) carrying the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) system will launch on 2022-05-25 as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission.