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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PAVE Space will fly an in-space demonstration of its avionics system on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission in October.
SpaceX launched Starshield as a physically separate military architecture funded by billions of dollars in National Reconnaissance Office and Space Force contracts.
SpaceX is moving to file its initial public offering prospectus with U.S. regulators as early as the week of March 25, 2026.
Advisors suggest SpaceX could seek to raise over $75 billion in its IPO.
SpaceX launched 165 missions in 2025.
SpaceX's IPO is being positioned for a June 2026 market debut.
The SpaceX-xAI merger valued the combined aerospace and AI entity at $1.25 trillion.
SpaceX deployed more than 3,000 satellites for its Starlink constellation in 2025.
Amazon uses Arianespace, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin as launch providers for Amazon Leo.
Amazon secured an additional 10 Falcon 9 launch contracts and 12 New Glenn launch contracts earlier in 2026.
K2 Space’s first Pathfinder mission will launch on SpaceX Transporter 16.
Space Systems Command reassigned the launch of GPS III Space Vehicle 10 from United Launch Alliance to SpaceX on March 20, 2026.
The Space Force awarded ULA the USSF-70 mission in a mission trade after reassigning SV-10 to SpaceX.
Lee Rosen worked as a vice president at SpaceX for 11 years before co-founding ThinkOrbital.
SpaceX and Blue Origin provide direct tourism services to space tourism customers.
SpaceX and Blue Origin launch suborbital or orbital flights for high-net-worth individuals.
SpaceX filed a response to Blue Origin’s FCC application and asked the commission to apply Amazon’s objections to SpaceX’s proposal when reviewing Blue Origin’s filing.
Amazon argued in its FCC petition that SpaceX’s orbital data center proposal provided only a bare outline and lacked specifics on the satellite development program, the potential 1,500-km-wide operating area, and the launch timeline.
On December 22, 2015, SpaceX successfully landed a reusable booster from Earth orbit after deploying satellites there.
The U.S. Space Force is using SpaceX launch capabilities to maintain delivery of the GPS III-8 mission while the Vulcan anomaly investigation continues.