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 awarded SpaceX six additional Dragon cargo missions under its CRS-2 contract at the same time it ordered additional Cygnus missions.
Pixxel is launching the first of its hyperspectral satellites on SpaceX’s Transporter-4 rideshare mission scheduled for April.
Under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract, SpaceX and Northrop Grumman are contracted to launch to the International Space Station.
Unicorn-2D was launched into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket in January 2022 on SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission that carried 105 customer satellites.
Pixxel is launching the first of its hyperspectral satellites as part of SpaceX’s upcoming April Transporter-4 mission.
A second iteration of Pixxel’s camera is onboard its first satellite that is slated to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket on 2022-04-01 as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-4 rideshare mission that aims to launch a total of 40 spacecraft.
The 2022-10-01 Human Landing System funding request does not break out allocations among the existing Option A award to SpaceX, a planned Option B upgrade to SpaceX’s Starship, and the new Sustaining Lunar Development project.
On 2022-02-10 at an event in Boca Chica, SpaceX displayed a completed Starship/Super Heavy vehicle on the pad.
Intelsat offers a managed network service that integrates geostationary satellites, SpaceX’s Starlink low Earth orbit constellation, and cellular broadband.
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX completed a flight readiness review for the Ax-1 mission to the ISS on 2022-03-25.
SpaceX’s Starlink LEO constellation led to a 350% expansion of global HTS capacity supply in 2021.
SpaceX's Starlink LEO constellation contributed to a 350% expansion of global HTS capacity supply in 2021.
OneWeb reached an agreement with SpaceX on 2022-03-21 for one or more launches.
SpaceLogistics plans to launch a 3,000-kilogram Mission Robotic Vehicle and three Mission Extension Pods each about 400 kg on a SpaceX rocket in 2024.
SpaceX’s smallsat rideshare program now charges $1,100,000 to place up to 200 kg into sun-synchronous orbit.
SpaceX lists a price of $97,000,000 for a Falcon Heavy dedicated launch on its price sheet.
PSN Group has an agreement with SpaceX to launch Nusantara Lima on a Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX lists a price of $67,000,000 for a Falcon 9 dedicated launch on its price sheet.
An earlier version of SpaceX’s price sheet listed $62,000,000 for Falcon 9 and $90,000,000 for Falcon Heavy launches.
NASA announced on 2022-03-23 that it will support development of a second lunar lander to transport astronauts to and from the lunar surface to provide competition with SpaceX for the later sustainable phase of the Artemis program.