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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Williams and Wilmore were moved to SpaceX Crew-9, which required removing two astronauts from that Crew Dragon manifest to accommodate the Starliner astronauts.
Mike Fincke served as astronaut office chief of NASA’s commercial crew branch between about 2014 and 2019 during the award and implementation of the final commercial crew development contracts to SpaceX and Boeing.
Mike Fincke participated in the original Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts award and worked on development of both SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.
Mike Fincke identified himself as the astronaut who required an expedited return to Earth during the SpaceX Crew-11 mission.
SpaceX acquired xAI.
Momentus delivered a Vigoride orbital service vehicle to Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the SpaceX Transporter-16 mission planned for next month.
Mike Fincke was officially moved off Starliner-1 in March 2025 to instead serve as pilot of SpaceX Crew-11, which launched on Aug. 1, 2025.
SpaceX Crew-11 splashed down off the coast of San Diego on Jan. 15 and the returned crew were taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla for evaluation.
Jim Cantrell is the Founder and CEO of Phantom Space and was an early SpaceX executive.
Mike Fincke thanked his fellow Crew-11 astronauts, NASA, SpaceX, and the medical staff for their support and assistance.
NASA elected to execute an expedited, non-emergency return of SpaceX Crew-11 a few weeks earlier than planned after determining the ill astronaut was stable.
Elon Musk owns both SpaceX and xAI.
The ongoing investigation into the GEM-63XL anomaly is likely to result in SpaceX displacing United Launch Alliance as the launch provider for the imminent launch of the 10th and final Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite.
SpaceX satellites are equipped with algorithms for autonomous data management in orbit.
EOS-X Space expects to benefit from growing institutional interest in the commercial space sector and from potential catalytic effects of a future SpaceX IPO.
The FCC granted SpaceX and T-Mobile a Supplemental Coverage from Space license on December 16, 2025 permitting a power flux density of -110.6 dBW.
SpaceX unveiled a Direct-to-Cell roadmap at the ITU Space Connect conference on February 24, 2026 targeting user speeds of up to 150 Mbps.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites from California on February 25, 2026.
SpaceX will pair its Starship launch vehicle with proprietary mid-band spectrum to deploy the planned V3 VLEO satellites.
The EchoStar spectrum acquisition grants SpaceX 50 MHz of dedicated mid-band capacity.