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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Exolaunch is a global launch integrator operating under a Multi-Launch Agreement with SpaceX.
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) shipped five satellites to be launched in early Q2 from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission using a Falcon 9 reusable two-stage rocket under SpaceX’s Rideshare program.
Bahrain launched its first satellite, a three-unit cubesat called Light-1 jointly developed with the United Arab Emirates, on a SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply mission in December 2021.
The SpaceX contract covers undisclosed technical launch changes for BlueWalker-3, a milestone payment for the first operational BlueBird satellite slated to launch in the fourth quarter of 2022, and a reservation for an additional BlueBird mission.
AST SpaceMobile announced a multi-launch contract with SpaceX on 2022-03-08 worth $22,750,000.
The Federal Aviation Administration is continuing its environmental review of SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starship launch plans, and the FAA has delayed its decision twice, most recently to 2022-03-28.
Momentus postponed launches of an earlier version of its Vigoride tug on two SpaceX rideshare missions in January and June 2021 due to the absence of an FAA payload review.
Momentus signed an agreement with SpaceX for a second port on Transporter-5 and reserved space on the next four Transporter rideshare missions scheduled for October 2022 and October 2023.
AST SpaceMobile has signed a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX that covers the planned summer launch of the BlueWalker 3 test satellite, the launch of the first BlueBird satellite, and provides a framework for future launches.
The omnibus bill includes $1,195,000,000 for NASA’s Human Landing System program for a lunar lander version of SpaceX’s Starship.
SpaceX has permission to launch 12,000 satellites and is seeking approval to deploy 30,000 additional satellites.
SpaceX had been working for weeks to secure approval for Starlink services in Ukraine before a government minister tweeted a request to Elon Musk on 2022-03-07.
Elon Musk tweeted on 2022-02-26 that Starlink services had been activated for Ukraine and that SpaceX was shipping terminals to the country.
SpaceX had been working for about a month and a half to obtain landing rights to provide Starlink services in Ukraine before Mykhailo Fedorov's 2022-02-26 tweet.
The Ax-1 commercial mission to the International Space Station was scheduled for a 2022-03-30 launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
SpaceX launched a set of 47 Starlink satellites on 2022-03-03 from Kennedy Space Center, the third Starlink launch in the previous two weeks.
SpaceX has been developing Starship vehicles at its Boca Chica, Texas test site called Starbase.
The FAA’s completion of the environmental assessment required for SpaceX’s Starship license was scheduled for 2022-03-28 and that date had slipped twice.
NASA modified its existing Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract with SpaceX on 2022-02-28 to add three missions to the original six post-certification missions to the International Space Station.
A federal contract database records a $776,000,000 modification for the SpaceX CCtCap contract on 2022-02-28 covering the three additional flights.