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 merged xAI-SpaceX entity is expected to go public as early as this summer.
On Friday, 13 February Sophie Adenot was launched aboard the SpaceX Crew-12 mission in a Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
Axiom Space conducts private crewed spaceflights to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Dragon capsule in partnership with NASA.
NASA and SpaceX launched the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station.
In early 2024 Sweden’s Marcus Wandt became the first of the 12 ESA reserve astronauts to secure a mission to the International Space Station on an Axiom-sponsored SpaceX Crew Dragon flight.
Crew-12 launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40.
Scarlett Koller is the CEO of Mithril Technologies and previously worked as an engineer at SpaceX and NASA.
xAI was valued at more than $200 billion when it was integrated with Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company last week.
The SpaceX Crew-12 mission is a flight to the International Space Station.
Vast has contracted SpaceX to provide launch services for its private astronaut mission to the ISS.
Rama Afullo founded Satlyt and previously held managerial roles at Google and SpaceX and was one of Tesla’s first three employees in Africa.
The SpaceX Crew-12 mission was scheduled to launch on February 13, 2026 at 5:15 a.m. ET (10:15 UTC).
SpaceX is shifting focus to build an autonomous-growth city on the Moon and is delaying ambitions for a permanent human presence on Mars.
SpaceX plans to begin work on building a city on Mars in about five to seven years while prioritizing the Moon to help secure the future of civilization.
Elon Musk stated that SpaceX could potentially achieve a lunar autonomous-growth city in less than 10 years while a comparable settlement on Mars would take more than 20 years.
The Wall Street Journal published on February 6 that SpaceX had abandoned plans for a 2026 Mars mission and was focusing on an uncrewed lunar landing demonstration as soon as March 2027.
SpaceX delayed its Mars plans in favor of focusing on the Moon.
Vigoride 7 is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 2026 on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare mission to low Earth orbit.
SpaceX’s Starlink network has surpassed 9 million users.
SpaceX delayed its Mars plans in favor of focusing on the Moon.