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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Barry Matsumori served as senior vice president of sales and business development at SpaceX.
SpaceX’s price sheet states that missions purchased in 2022 but flown beyond 2023 may be subject to additional adjustments due to inflation.
SpaceX’s smallsat rideshare program previously charged $1,000,000 for up to 200 kg and $5,000 per additional kilogram.
On 2022-03-21, OneWeb secured a deal with SpaceX to resume launches in 2022.
The first launch with SpaceX is anticipated in 2022 and will add to OneWeb’s total in‑orbit constellation that stands at 428 satellites, or 66 percent of the planned 648‑satellite fleet.
Spaceflight worked with the vendor to address the Sherpa-LTC1 root cause and received SpaceX approval to fly the system on a mission scheduled for later 2022.
Companies that book rideshare flights directly with SpaceX pay more than $1,000,000 per payload.
SpaceX removed a Spaceflight Sherpa tug from the Falcon 9 Transporter-3 rideshare mission in December because the propulsion system provided by Benchmark Space Systems developed a leak.
SpaceX manufactures close to eight satellites per day at its Redmond, Washington facility.
SpaceX accommodated 143 satellites on the first Transporter rideshare launched in January 2021.
OneWeb reached a deal with SpaceX that will allow OneWeb to resume launching its LEO broadband constellation in 2022.
SpaceX resumed Starlink launches on a northeastern trajectory with the 2022-03-19 mission after flying several previous Starlink launches on a southeastern trajectory.
Orbit Fab’s first geostationary tanker is projected to launch later 2022 or next year on a SpaceX commercial lunar lander mission.
The Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency purchased the first eight Tracking Layer satellites in 2020, four from L3Harris and four from a SpaceX–Leidos team.
The first eight Tracking Layer satellites from L3Harris and the SpaceX–Leidos team passed design reviews and are scheduled to launch in 2023.
Spaceflight had planned to launch OreSat0 on a Sherpa tug manifested on the SpaceX Transporter-3 rideshare mission in January, but a propellant leak on the Sherpa forced removal of the vehicle and reassignment to other rides.
Cosmonauts are scheduled to train at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and at SpaceX’s headquarters in California under the planned crew swap agreement.
The Ax-1 private astronaut mission by Axiom Space is scheduled to launch 2022-03-30 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
ARCSAT is scheduled to launch to sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) on SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than April 2022 as part of SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program.
Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) awarded a contract to Exolaunch to launch the ARCSAT satellite aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9.