Four astronauts have begun preparing for their upcoming flight aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of SpaceX's first operational manned mission with NASA. “We’re transitioning from test flights to operational flights. Make no mistake, every flight is a test flight when it comes to space travel, but it’s also true that we need to routinely be able to go to the International Space Station," said Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator and a past Wash100 winner.

NASA and SpaceX plan to launch Sentinel-6, an ocean monitoring satellite designed to help researchers explore how climate change affects the Earth's coastlines, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 21 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

SpaceX plans to push through with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a new military GPS satellite after addressing the technical issue that caused liftoff delays, Cnet reported Monday. The company said GPS III Space Vehicle 04's launch can resume on Thursday at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

SpaceX deployed an additional set of 60 satellites to orbit for the company's Starlink broadband internet service, two days later than originally scheduled in order to ensure mission assurance, NASASpaceflight reported Saturday.

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 awardee, discussed in a video interview posted Monday about the company’s partnership with Microsoft to bring the Starlink satellite connectivity to the latter’s Azure cloud computing platform.

The number of Starlink satellites SpaceX has deployed to orbit reached 835 following Sunday's launch of an additional 60 units from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, CBS reported Monday.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, said the company has begun preparations to develop a permanent human settlement on Mars with SpaceX’s Starship rocket. Musk has projected that SpaceX’s first uncrewed mission to Mars could occur in a minimum of four years. SpaceX’s Starship vehicle is a reusable rocket-and-spacecraft combo that is currently under development at the company's South Texas facility.

SpaceX is studying ways how it could offer weather data to the U.S. military under a potential six-month, $2M contract awarded by the Space Force’s Space Missile Systems Center in July, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.

The U.S. Transportation Command has partnered with SpaceX and San Antonio, Texas-based space architecture company XArc to conduct a research and development effort on the potential use of rockets to rapidly deliver military cargo.

The emergency response division of Washington’s state military started connecting to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation in August using user terminals to deliver internet service to wildfire-ravaged areas, CNBC reported Tuesday.

SpaceX and NASA are conducting final reviews of modifications to the company’s Crew Dragon capsule ahead of its launch to the International Space Station scheduled for Oct. 31.

SpaceX and NASA plan to launch on Oct. 31 the manned Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station.