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 launched a Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center at 5:42 a.m. Eastern.
Under the agreement, SpaceX launched NROL-87 in February at Vandenberg and reused that booster for NROL-85 in April.
The National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-85 mission launched on 2022-04-17 by SpaceX.
The NRO and SpaceX agreed to move NROL-85 to the West Coast at no extra cost to the U.S. government in exchange for using a reused Falcon 9 first stage.
$928,000,000 was appropriated for HLS in fiscal year 2021 and $1,195,000,000 was appropriated in fiscal year 2022, primarily to support the SpaceX HLS contract.
SpaceX is slated to launch the first two WorldView Legion satellites in 2022-06-05 and to launch the remaining four in pairs over two three-month intervals.
Satellogic Inc. signed a new Multiple Launch Agreement with SpaceX reserving launch capacity for 68 satellites.
Satellogic recently launched five additional spacecraft that were delivered to sun-synchronous orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
SES and SpaceX are planning to deploy six O3b mPower satellites across three SpaceX launches between July and September 2022.
EchoStar selected SpaceX in late 2020 to provide a launch for Jupiter-3 to geostationary orbit.
Satellogic reached a similar agreement with SpaceX in January 2021 covering four rideshare launches.
NASA plans to use SpaceX’s Starship lander for Artemis 3 no earlier than 2025 and plans for a second lander to fly as soon as Artemis 5 in 2027.
Air Force Gen. John Hyten attributed $40,000,000,000 in Defense Department savings to competition enabled by SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.
Satellogic signed a contract with SpaceX on 2022-05-04 to launch 68 additional satellites.
The SpaceX agreement provides a framework through the end of 2024 for ordering additional SpaceX launches and permits AST SpaceMobile to delay launches after paying a rebooking fee.
AST SpaceMobile signed a launch contract with SpaceX on 2022-03-08 that includes a milestone payment for its first operational BlueBird satellite slated to launch in 2023 and a reservation for an additional BlueBird mission.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched GNOMES-3 into a 646 km circular sun-synchronous orbit on 2022-04-01 on the Transporter-4 mission.
Viasat requested on 2022-05-02 that the FCC perform an environmental review before approving SpaceX’s plan to add nearly 30,000 satellites to the Starlink constellation.
Unseenlabs launched its first satellite with SpaceX from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
SpaceX is incorporating visors on Starlink satellites and implementing other measures intended to reduce interference with astronomers.