SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Created: 2018-11-01
Updated: 2023-07-22
Company - SpaceX
Product/Service - Crew Dragon
- Classification
- Human Spaceflight & Landers
- Category
- Human Spaceflight
Transport Service (Earth-LEO)
- Fields
- Space Tourism
Reusable
Space Capsule
- Status
- Active
- First launch
- 2020
Crew Dragon
Product/Service - DragonLab
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)
- Fields
- Reusable
Space Capsule
- Status
- Dormant
- First launch
- Dormant
DragonLab
A free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from space.
DragonLab provides a platform for in-space experimentation, including recovery of pressurized and some unpressurized payloads, as well as deployment of small spacecraft. As a complete system, DragonLab provides for all aspects of operation: propulsion, power, thermal control, environmental control, avionics, communications, thermal protection, flight software, guidance, navigation and control, entry, descent and landing and recovery.
Created: 2018-11-01
Updated: 2023-02-18
Product/Service - Starship, Starship HLS, Starship Human Landing System
- Classification
- Human Spaceflight & Landers
- Category
- Human Landing System
Transport Service (Earth-LEO)
Transport Service (Re-Entry)
Transport Service (LEO-Moon)
Point-to-point
- Fields
- In-Space Transportation
Transport Service (In-Space)
Space Tourism
Moon
Mars
- Status
- Development, Launched
- First launch
- 2024
Starship
SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy Rocket represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to service all Earth orbit needs as well as the Moon and Mars.
Starship Human Landing System
One of the 3 awardees for the NASA Lunar Human Landing System.
DARPA LunA-10 Program Study, 2023-2024
Status Comment / Notes
Starship has not made it to orbit yet as of late 2023, but likely will in 2024. Waiting for that to change the status to Demonstrated.
Created: 2018-11-22
Updated: 2024-02-02
Product/Service - Dragon, Dragon 2, Cargo Dragon
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Transport Service (Earth-LEO)
Transport Service (Re-Entry)
- Fields
- Reusable
Space Capsule
- Status
- Active
- First launch
- 2010
Dragon is a free-flying spacecraft designed to deliver both cargo and people to orbiting destinations.
Dragon made history in 2012 when it became the first commercial spacecraft in history to deliver cargo to the International Space Station and safely return cargo to Earth, a feat previously achieved only by governments.
Last first generation Dragon launched in March 2020.
Research Proposals
- FITNESS-FOCUSED RESEARCH - Innovative solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness, specifically focused on time efficiencies, resources required, equipment and protocols, and efficacy assessments.
- EXPLORATION-FOCUSED RESEARCH - Studies assessing tools that enhance health and well-being during long-duration missions, specifically focused on medical capabilities, virtual or augmented reality as a multipurpose tool, inflight health, and just-in-time training.
Created: 2022-02-23
Updated: 2024-01-27
Product/Service - Starlink, Starshield
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- In-Space Communications Relay
Deep Space Communications
- Fields
- Utility
In-Space Internet
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2018
Created: 2020-10-16
Updated: 2023-02-18
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News, Research, Projects and Patents
| Title | Type | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| In the shadows of lunar landers | Article | 2022-11-07 | |
| Polaris Dawn crewed mission could suffer additional delays | News | 2022-10-25 | |
| Dennis Tito, first space tourist, books trip around the moon on SpaceX’s Starship | News | 2022-10-12 | |
| NASA asks SpaceX to decide the fate of ‘Dragon XL’ lunar cargo spacecraft | News | 2022-04-18 | > |
| SPACEX TO LAUNCH INSPIRATION4 MISSION TO ORBIT | News | 2021-02-01 | |
| The long countdown to commercial crew’s liftoff | News | 2020-07-05 | > How a 2005 call for ‘skin in the game’ started a 15-year countdown to the first human orbital spaceflight from U.S. soil since 2011 |
| SpaceX can now send humans to space. It just needs a market | News | 2020-06-03 | > The Crew Dragon is supposed to usher in a “new era” of spaceflight. But are there really customers who want to go into orbit? |
| Out Of This World! Tom Cruise Plots Movie To Shoot In Space With Elon Musk’s SpaceX | News | 2020-05-04 |
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