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 has deployed more than half of the 4,408 first-generation Starlink satellites that the FCC approved to operate at altitudes of around 550 km.
Following GNOMES-2’s June launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-2 mission, GNOMES-2 and GNOMES-3 together produce over 3,200 atmospheric soundings and over 5,000 ionospheric soundings per day.
SpaceX is seeking FCC permission for a larger constellation of second-generation Starlink satellites proposed to operate between 340 and 614 km to improve performance.
Terran Orbital shipped two next-generation satellites for GeoOptics to Cape Canaveral for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission.
SpaceX performed five launches in December 2021.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit on 2022-04-29 at 5:27 p.m. ET.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won National Security Space Launch Phase 2 five-year contracts in 2020.
NanoAvionics achieved six satellite launches on SpaceX Transporter-3 and Transporter-4 that included its MP42 modular microsatellite bus.
Elon Musk’s Starlink sent thousands of terminals to Ukraine to connect the country to its internet broadband network.
Under the Phase 2 awards, United Launch Alliance received 60% of the projected national security missions and SpaceX received 40% over the five-year contract.
South Africa launched the Maritime Domain Awareness Satellite constellation (MDASat-1) of nanosatellites in January 2022 from Cape Canaveral on the SpaceX Transporter-3 mission.
PredaSAR is preparing to deploy its first satellite on the SpaceX Transporter 6 rideshare projected to launch in October.
Ax-1 represents the first of four private human spaceflights that Axiom Space has contracted with SpaceX to transport crews to and from the International Space Station.
SpaceX launched Dragon and the Ax-1 crew to the ISS on Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A on Friday, 2022-04-08.
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program buys crew transportation services to the International Space Station from SpaceX and Boeing, which Astranis cites as an ideal partnership model.
SpaceX began seeking regulatory permission in 2020 to test Starlink services on private jets and on the vessels that Falcon 9 rockets land on for reuse.
SpaceX’s most recent Starlink mission launched on 2022-04-21 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
SpaceX has launched 2,388 Starlink satellites in total according to statistics maintained by Jonathan McDowell.
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, received a $69,950,000 CSP award to demonstrate a commercial optical low-Earth-orbit relay network for high-rate SATCOM services.
Spaceflight will apply learnings from its successful Sherpa launches in 2021 to launch OTVs on multiple upcoming SpaceX missions in the current year.