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 FCC granted SpaceX waivers allowing it to use the acquired spectrum across terrestrial, space-based, and hybrid network architectures.
Operating Artemis III in low Earth orbit rather than lunar orbit expands the launch windows needed to align the Space Launch System launch with SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon pathfinder vehicles.
SpaceX's valuation rose to $800 billion by December 2025.
SpaceX was valued at roughly $350 billion in a private tender offer in May 2025.
SpaceX’s acquisition gives the company exclusive-use, contiguous spectrum nationwide for a Starlink direct-to-device service.
The Artemis III mission concept is being defined largely by SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 2 human landing system prototypes.
Artemis III will validate hardware from NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin before deep space deployment.
SpaceX has performed static-fire tests of the engines on both Starship V3 components.
SpaceX completed a successful static fire of all 33 Starship engines on May 7, 2026.
Starship Version 3 Flight 12 is the first orbital test of SpaceX’s redesigned Starship vehicle architecture.
SpaceX fully loaded a Starship Version 3 vehicle with more than 5,000 metric tons of propellant during a flight-like countdown.
Artemis III will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial lunar landers developed by Blue Origin and SpaceX.
SpaceX will acquire approximately 15 megahertz of unpaired nationwide AWS-3 spectrum, 40 megahertz of nationwide AWS-4 spectrum, and 10 megahertz of nationwide H-Block spectrum from EchoStar.
SpaceX assembled a Starship V3 for the first time at Starbase in South Texas during the weekend before May 11.
Exotrail’s spacevan 002 launched earlier in 2026 on SpaceX’s Transporter-16 rideshare mission.
SpaceX launched Starship in April 2023 on a test flight that ended in an explosion minutes after liftoff.
SpaceX provided a final technical briefing on Starship Version 3 on May 14, 2026 ahead of its planned debut launch on May 19, 2026.
SpaceX uses liquid oxygen and liquid methane as propellants for Starship V3.
SpaceX completed a full-duration launch rehearsal for Starship Version 3 on May 11, 2026.
SpaceX filed a confidential S-1 registration with the SEC on April 1, 2026.