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 filed a confidential initial public offering six months after Quilty Space published its 2025 Starlink projection.
SpaceX filed for an initial public offering in the United States earlier this month.
International Holding Company and Alpha Dhabi Holding each invested $25 million in SpaceX in June 2022.
SpaceX needed licensed spectrum for Starlink’s direct-to-device expansion and terrestrial broadband hybrid architecture.
SpaceX’s Transporter-16 mission carried 57 customer satellites for Exolaunch.
Arqsat-1 launched from California in the early hours of March 29-30 aboard a SpaceX launcher.
Exolaunch has customers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Singapore, Spain, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, and other countries on the SpaceX CAS500-2 mission.
SpaceX moved Starship and Super Heavy out to continue preflight testing on April 12, 2026.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Axiom Space are competing to have their systems ready for Artemis III.
SpaceX launched the CRS NG-24 mission yesterday.
SpaceX’s next CRS launch will be CRS-34 next month.
SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft on Falcon 9 for the CRS NG-24 mission.
CAS Space has compared that projected Kinetica-2 mission cost to about half the cost of SpaceX’s partially reusable Falcon 9.
NASA targeted the next Artemis mission for 2027 and planned for it to include docking with a commercial lunar lander built by SpaceX or Blue Origin.
SpaceX launched NG-24.
SpaceX launched 25 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 from California on April 11, 2026.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched Northrop Grumman's fourth commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX’s Block 3 Starship and Super Heavy booster are scheduled for an imminent test before Artemis III.
SpaceX confirmed the deployment of 25 Starlink satellites.
SpaceX accounted for nearly 51% of global orbital launches in 2025.