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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Artemis III will no longer attempt a lunar landing and will instead launch an Orion spacecraft with a four-person crew to rendezvous and dock in Earth orbit with SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System, Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, or potentially both.
Artemis III will use one or both Moon landers being developed by industry, specifically SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon, to test operations in lunar orbit.
SpaceX shifted its long-term focus from an urgent emphasis on reaching Mars toward building a self-growing city on the Moon.
The accelerated cargo-and-crew landing plan relies heavily on progress by SpaceX and Blue Origin, both of which have agreed to the revised timeline.
SpaceX operates the Starlink satellite broadband service used by Ukraine.
SpaceX submitted plans for one million satellites for space computing and AI development after merging with xAI.
SpaceX posted on X on 26 February 2026 that the first Starship V3 has left the build site to begin prelaunch testing and included an image of the vehicle in transit.
ZIPAIR Tokyo has been conducting technical verification with SpaceX since 2023.
SpaceX’s X post confirms that Starship V3 has entered a ground verification (prelaunch testing) phase.
ZIPAIR Tokyo is the first airline in Asia to equip SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service.
The commercial lunar landers in development referenced are SpaceX’s Starship HLS and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK2.
The accelerated cargo-and-crew approach for crewed landings in 2028 relies heavily on progress by SpaceX and Blue Origin.
ZIPAIR Tokyo equipped an aircraft with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service on February 26.
CRS-33 completed SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 from Florida on February 27, 2026.
The splashdown completed SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station.
Starship V3 is a new version of SpaceX’s fully reusable Starship system developed for orbital and beyond missions.
NASA created a new Artemis III mission in which a crew capsule will dock with a lunar lander built by either SpaceX or Blue Origin.
Four years after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine uses SpaceX Starlink satellite broadband for fixed communications.
Mike Fincke was the pilot aboard SpaceX Crew-11, a four-astronaut mission to the International Space Station.