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’s Starlink broadband network reclaimed permission to operate in France on 2022-06-02 after a month-long public consultation in the country.
SpaceX launched 59 small-satellite missions on the Transporter 5 rideshare on 2022-05-25.
Blue Canyon Technologies launched Agile Microsat and HACSSAT 1 and HACSSAT 2 aboard the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission on 2022-05-25.
The original CCtCap awards to Boeing and SpaceX in 2014 provided each company with six operational post-certification missions.
NASA intends to purchase five additional Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station from SpaceX via a sole-source modification to its existing Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract.
If NASA is able to alternate missions between SpaceX and Boeing, Boeing’s current CCtCap contract would support missions launching through 2028.
In February, NASA awarded SpaceX three additional post-certification missions for $776,000,000.
Momentus launched its first space tug, Vigoride-3, on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 on 2022-05-25.
SpaceX is currently on its fourth post-certification mission, Crew-4, which launched to the International Space Station in April.
SpaceX is developing a Crew Dragon-derived pressure suit for use in spacewalks as part of the Polaris Program funded by Jared Isaacman.
The six smallsats launched on SpaceX Transporter-5 comprised three GHGSat greenhouse gas monitoring satellites and three HawkEye 360 radio frequency geolocation smallsats.
AstroForge’s first mission, planned for launch in early 2023, will place a six-unit cubesat developed by British company OrbAstro into orbit on a SpaceX rideshare mission.
SpaceX plans to test its Crew Dragon-derived spacewalk-capable suit on the Polaris Dawn mission scheduled for later 2022.
Six smallsats developed by Space Flight Laboratory were launched on the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission on 2022-05-25.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) received three NSS launch service orders for USSF-124, USSF-62, and one Space Development Agency Tranche 1 mission using the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
The Space Systems Command awarded seven Phase 2 missions between August 2020 and March 2021 with four missions assigned to United Launch Alliance for $561,100,000 and three missions assigned to SpaceX for $475,700,000.
Col. Douglas Pentecost, Space Systems Command’s deputy director of launch enterprise, identified ULA’s task orders for the five missions as worth $566,000,000 and SpaceX’s orders for the three missions as worth $280,000,000.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 launch services procurement contract in 2020 with ULA awarded 60% and SpaceX awarded 40% of the missions over five years.
The SDA Tranche 1 mission assigned to SpaceX will be the first of six planned Tranche 1 missions to be launched by the Space Development Agency.
Of the eight missions funded in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, five were assigned to United Launch Alliance and three were assigned to SpaceX.