Commercial Mission Patches 2017-2018
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, a new initiative was started to entice private companies to invest in space travel. Several companies accepted the challenge and began to develop vehicles to ferry supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. SpaceX was the first to successfully launch a spacecraft into orbit. Founded by famed billioniare businnessman Elon Musk, SpaceX developed the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon capsule for ISS resupply missions. Orbital Sciences Corporation, now known as Orbital ATK, was next to send a mission to the ISS. Commercial spaceflight is poised to soon overtake NASA in the race for space. Several companies are competing to develop spacecraft for Earth orbit and beyond. Billionaire RIchard Branson of Virgin Galactic hopes to soon make space tourism a reality and is currently developing spacecraft to take paying passengers into low Earth orbit. SpaceX is developing a giant rocket ship that will rival the Apollo Staurn V and has announced their plans to establish a human colony on the planet Mars.
SpaceX AMOS-6
Destroyed on Launch Pad
SpaceX Iridium-1
January 14, 2017
SpaceX CRS-10
February 19, 2017
SpaceX Echostar-23
March 13, 2017
SpaceX SES-10
March 30, 2017
SpaceX NROL-76
May 1, 2017
SpaceX Inmarsat-5
May 15, 2017
SpaceX CRS-11
June 3, 2017
SpaceX Bulgariasat-1
June 23, 2017
SpaceX Iridium-2
June 25, 2017
SpaceX Intelsat 35E
July 5, 2017
SpaceX CRS-12
August 14, 2017
SpaceX Formosat 5
August 24, 2017
SpaceX Boeing X-37B OTV-5
September 7, 2017
SpaceX Iridium-3
October 9, 2017
SpaceX SES-11
October 11, 2017
SpaceX Koreasat 5A
October 30, 2017
SpaceX CRS-13
December 15, 2017
SpaceX Iridium 4
December 23, 2017
SpaceX Zuma
January 8, 2018
SpaceX GovSat-1
January 31, 2018
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test
February 6, 2018
SpaceX PAZ
February 22, 2018
SpaceX Hispasat 30W-6
March 6, 2018
SpaceX Iridium-5
March 30, 2018
SpaceX CRS-14
April 2, 2018
SpaceX TESS
April 18, 2018
SpaceX Bangabandhu-1
May 11, 2018
SpaceX Iridium-6
May 22, 2018
SpaceX SES-12
June 24, 2018
SpaceX CRS-15
June 29, 2018
SpaceX Telstar 19V
July 22, 2018
SpaceX Iridium-7
July 25, 2018
SpaceX Merah Putih
August 7, 2018
SpaceX Telstar 18V
September 10, 2018
SpaceX SAOCOM 1A
October 8, 2018
SpaceX Es'hail-2
November 15, 2018
SpaceX SSO-A
December 3, 2018
SpaceX CRS-16
December 5, 2018