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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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is being used for high-value commercial missions.
The OTA winners are Anduril Industries, Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics Mission Systems, GITAI USA Inc, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Quindar Inc, RTX’s Raytheon Company, Sci-Tec Inc, SpaceX, True Anomaly Inc, and Turion Space Corp.
SpaceX had conducted 50 Falcon 9 launches through April 26 of the following year.
Only SpaceX and United Launch Alliance currently hold Lane 2 certification under the National Security Space Launch contract.
Jessica Watkins will be the first NASA astronaut to launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft twice.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is scheduled to launch the Viasat-3 F3 satellite from Florida.
Jessica Watkins first flew to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission and spent a total of 170 days in space across Expeditions 67 and 68 in 2022.
SpaceX performed 165 Falcon 9 launches in 2025.
SpaceX previously used the same near-launch-site manufacturing approach for its Starship-Super Heavy system.
AST SpaceMobile planned to use SpaceX to launch BlueBirds 8-10, 11-13, and 14-16.
The FCC has granted temporary waivers of EPFD limits to SpaceX.
The FCC dismissed requests from SpaceX, Kepler Communications, Sateliot, and AST SpaceMobile for market access in portions of MSS spectrum.
Starliner gives the United States a second alternative to reach the ISS alongside SpaceX.
The FCC’s ruling gives regulatory certainty to SpaceX’s purchase of EchoStar spectrum including the 2 GHz band and Amazon’s purchase of Globalstar.
The FCC dismissed SpaceX’s request to allow new entrants in the MSS band.
Josh Kutryk will serve as a mission specialist on SpaceX Crew-13.
Phoenix 2.2 and Phoenix 2.3 are planned about six and eleven months after Phoenix 2.1, respectively, using small European launchers and SpaceX rideshare launches.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Josh Kutryk will fly to the International Space Station no earlier than September on SpaceX Crew-13.
Licenses in EchoStar’s 2 GHz band will be transferred to SpaceX in the spectrum sale announced in September.
SpaceX has filed multiple requests to enter parts of the Big LEO band.