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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The SpaceX Crew-4 crew rotation mission is scheduled to launch from Launch Complex 39A on 2022-04-20.
In March, SpaceX increased Starlink hardware prices for U.S. customers to between $549 and $599 depending on when the order was placed.
SpaceX has launched more than 2,330 Starlink satellites to date.
Benchmark Space Systems’ Halcyon high-test peroxide (HTP)-based propulsion system performed mission-critical maneuvers aboard three satellites that reached orbit on SpaceX Transporter 2.
The Space Development Agency’s first batch of eight sensor satellites includes four from L3Harris and four from SpaceX and is projected to launch in early 2023.
Kleos Space S.A. launched the Patrol Mission third satellite cluster on 2022-04-01 on SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission.
The five Satellogic satellites were delivered to Sun-synchronous orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission aboard a Falcon 9 reusable two-stage rocket under SpaceX’s Rideshare program.
The first Skykraft satellites will be launched later 2022 by SpaceX from Florida.
SpaceX Transporter-4 mission included three satellites built by NanoAvionics for multiple customers.
Pixxel launched TD-2 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as part of the Transporter-4 rideshare from Cape Canaveral to support building a 24×7 planetary health monitor.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded SpaceX a $102,000,000 contract to study ways the military could use SpaceX launch vehicles to transport cargo and crews point to point on Earth.
Axiom Space is targeting 2022-04-08 for the launch of its Ax-1 mission on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX launched Transporter-4 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket into a Sun-synchronous orbit.
SpaceX launched the Transporter-4 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX launched the Transporter-4 dedicated rideshare mission on 2022-04-01 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission successfully launched all payloads on 2022-04-01 from Cape Canaveral.
The Italian space agency ASI selected SpaceX to launch Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation 2 because of delays with the Vega C rocket.
Exolaunch’s Multi-Launch Agreement with SpaceX was first signed in 2020 and was extended at the end of 2021.
SpaceX has launched 2,335 Starlink satellites to date, with 2,110 of those satellites still in orbit.
The second lunar lander procured under Sustaining Lunar Development will join the lander being developed by SpaceX based on its Starship vehicle through Option A of the Human Landing System program.