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SpaceX contracted with the US government for a portion of the development funding for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which uses a modified version of the Merlin rocket engine. [87] SpaceX developed the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, [88] the Raptor methane-fueled rocket engine, [89] and a set of reusable launch vehicle technologies with private ...
In December 2010, with the launch of the SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 mission, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft. [243] Dragon successfully berthed with the ISS during SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 in May 2012, a first for a private spacecraft .
It again broke the global single-year launch record of 98 launches in a year (set by SpaceX in the previous year with 96 Falcon and 2 Starship launches). The company had set initial launch targets for the year of approximately 144 launches, or an average of 12 per month, accounting for potential delays due to weather, technical issues, and ...
List of SpaceX launches may refer to: List of Falcon 1 launches , SpaceX's retired first launch vehicle List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches , SpaceX's current operational launch vehicles
In the early morning hours of Dec. 31, 2024, SpaceX ended its year as it began it, with one final launch of Starlink satellites into orbit. The launch marked SpaceX's 134th mission of the year ...
Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle [a] designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.The first Falcon 9 launch was on 4 June 2010, and the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 8 October 2012. [14]
In April, Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, said the first uncrewed starship to land on Mars would be within five years, with the first people landing on Mars within seven years.
SpaceX declared this flight a success, as their primary goal was to only clear the pad. [16] The launch resulted in extensive damage to the orbital launch mount and the infrastructures around it, including the propellant tank farm. [17] 2 18 November 2023 13:02:50 [18] Block 1, B9: Block 1, S25: Starbase, OLP-A — — Transatmospheric: SpaceX ...