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 Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Pension Fund sued Amazon over its original exclusion of SpaceX from launch bids.
SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster is ready to continue preflight testing.
The Artemis III mission could proceed without SpaceX Starship and potentially feature only Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander if that hardware is ready on time.
SpaceX conducted the Ship 39 cryoproof tests over several days.
SpaceX rebranded Starlink’s Direct-to-Device offering as Starlink Mobile.
SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink satellites use 20 by 20 MHz beams to provide four times the bandwidth per beam.
SpaceX plans to launch the upgraded second-generation Starlink satellites using its fully reusable Starship rocket.
SpaceX forecasts nearly 100 times the data density and 20 times the overall link performance with its second-generation Starlink satellites.
Mega-constellations from SpaceX, Amazon, and other companies have increased congestion in low Earth orbit, causing satellites to maneuver daily to avoid collisions.
SpaceX deployed 25 Starlink satellites.
SpaceX’s first-generation Starlink constellation operates at a low altitude of 350 kilometers.
The Trinity mission is manifested on the SpaceX Transporter-18 rideshare, currently scheduled for launch no earlier than October 2026.
The next SDA launch, originally slated for late 2025, is now tentatively targeted for late March or April 2026 pending resolution of software readiness issues and the SpaceX anomaly investigation.
SpaceX launched 25 Starlink satellites from California on March 8, 2026.
SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink satellites provide 16 times the number of beams per satellite compared with the prior generation.
SpaceX acquired globally harmonized S-band satellite spectrum rights from EchoStar subject to regulatory approval.
SpaceX deployed a first-generation Starlink satellite constellation of 650 satellites in 18 months.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in March 2025 aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
SpaceX projects download speeds up to 150 megabits per second in ideal conditions from Starlink Mobile beams.
SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink satellites feature a phased-array antenna five times larger than the previous version.