54 Facts About SpaceX

SpaceX is developing a satellite internet constellation named Starlink to provide commercial internet service.

SpaceX is developing Starship, a privately funded, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch system for interplanetary and orbital spaceflight.

SpaceX's achievements include the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit around Earth; the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft; the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station; the first vertical take-off and vertical propulsive landing for an orbital rocket booster; first reuse of such booster; and the first private company to send astronauts to orbit and to the International Space Station.

SpaceX has flown and landed the Falcon 9 series of rockets over one hundred times.

SpaceX was offered a plenary talk at their convention where he announced Mars Oasis, a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse and grow plants on Mars, to revive public interest in space exploration.

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SpaceX was first headquartered in a warehouse in El Segundo, California.

Musk has stated that one of his goals with SpaceX is to decrease the cost and improve the reliability of access to space, ultimately by a factor of ten.

SpaceX developed its first orbital launch vehicle, the Falcon 1, with internal funding.

In 2005, SpaceX announced plans to pursue a human-rated commercial space program through the end of the decade, a program that would later become the Dragon spacecraft.

SpaceX originally intended to follow its light Falcon 1 launch vehicle with an intermediate capacity vehicle, the Falcon 5.

SpaceX instead decided in 2005 to proceed with the development of the Falcon 9, a reusable heavier lift vehicle.

SpaceX launched the first commercial mission for a private customer in 2013.

In 2014, SpaceX won nine contracts out of the 20 that were openly competed worldwide.

SpaceX first achieved a successful landing and recovery of a first stage in December 2015 with Falcon 9 Flight 20.

Later that year, in March 2017, SpaceX launched a returned Falcon 9 for the SES-10 satellite.

In May 2019 SpaceX launched the first large batch of 60 Starlink satellites, beginning the deployment of what would become the world's largest commercial satellite constellation the following year.

Major milestone was achieved in May 2020, when SpaceX successfully launched two NASA astronauts into orbit on a Crew Dragon spacecraft during Crew Dragon Demo-2, making SpaceX the first private company to send astronauts to the International Space Station and marking the first crewed orbital launch from American soil in 9 years.

In February 2021, SpaceX raised an additional billion in an equity round from 99 investors at a per share value of approximately $420, raising the company valuation to approximately billion.

In July 2021, SpaceX unveiled another drone ship named A Shortfall of Gravitas, landing a booster from CRS-23 on it for the first time on 29 August 2021 Within the first 130 days of 2022, SpaceX had 18 rocket launches and two astronaut splashdowns.

The majority of 2022 SpaceX launches have focused on Starlink, a consumer internet business that sends batches of internet-beaming satellites and now has over 2, 200 satellites in orbit.

SpaceX has developed the Dragon spacecraft to transport cargo and crew to the International Space Station.

In March 2020 SpaceX revealed the Dragon XL, designed as a resupply spacecraft for NASA's planned Lunar Gateway space station under a Gateway Logistics Services contract.

SpaceX has purchased two deepwater oil rigs and are refitting them to support Starship launches.

SpaceX is developing a fully reusable super-heavy lift launch system known as Starship.

SpaceX initially envisioned a 12-meter-diameter ITS concept in 2016 solely aimed at Mars transit and other interplanetary uses.

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SpaceX started manufacturing the first prototypes of Starship in 2019 at the company's facility in Boca Chica, Texas, later renamed Starbase.

In May 2019 SpaceX launched the first batch of 60 satellites aboard a Falcon 9.

In March 2017 SpaceX filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission to field a constellation of 7, 518 additional V-band satellites in non-geosynchronous orbits to provide communications services.

In June 2015 SpaceX announced that they would sponsor a Hyperloop competition, and would build a 1.

In collaboration with doctors and academic researchers, SpaceX invited all employees to participate in the creation of a COVID-19 antibody-testing program in 2020.

SpaceX is headquartered in Hawthorne, California, which serves as its primary manufacturing plant.

SpaceX operates a research and major operation in Redmond, Washington, owns a test site in Texas and operates three launch sites, with another under development.

SpaceX operates regional offices in Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D C SpaceX was incorporated in the state of Delaware.

SpaceX Headquarters is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, California.

SpaceX utilizes a high degree of vertical integration in the production of its rockets and rocket engines.

In January 2015 SpaceX announced it would be entering the satellite production business and global satellite internet business.

SpaceX operates its Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas.

SpaceX has made a number of improvements to the facility since its purchase and has extended the acreage by purchasing several pieces of adjacent farmland.

SpaceX currently operates three orbital launch sites, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Vandenberg Space Force Base, and Kennedy Space Center, with another under construction near Brownsville, Texas.

SpaceX has indicated that they see a niche for each of the four orbital facilities and that they have sufficient launch business to fill each pad.

The neighboring SLC-4W has been converted to Landing Zone 4 since 2015, where SpaceX has successfully landed three Falcon 9 first-stage boosters, the first in October 2018.

SpaceX launched its first crewed mission to the ISS from Launch Pad 39A on 30 May 2020.

SpaceX broke ground on the new launch facility in 2014 with construction ramping up in the latter half of 2015, with the first suborbital launches from the facility in 2019.

SpaceX won demonstration and actual supply contracts from NASA for the International Space Station with technology the company developed.

SpaceX is certified for U S military launches of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle-class payloads.

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In 2006, SpaceX won a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Phase 1 contract to demonstrate cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS), with a possible contract option for crew transport.

The final Dragon 1 mission, SpaceX CRS-20, departed the ISS in April 2020, and Dragon was retired from service.

SpaceX will fly up to nine additional CRS flights with the upgraded Dragon 2 spacecraft.

In March 2020, NASA contracted SpaceX to develop the Dragon XL spacecraft to send supplies to the Lunar Gateway space station.

SpaceX is responsible for the transportation of NASA astronauts to and from the ISS.

SpaceX completed the first key flight test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, a Pad Abort Test, in May 2015, and successfully conducted a full uncrewed test flight in early 2019.

In January 2020, SpaceX conducted an in-flight abort test, the last test flight before flying crew, in which the Dragon spacecraft fired its launch escape engines in a simulated abort scenario.

In December 2012, SpaceX announced its first two launch contracts with the United States Department of Defense.

SpaceX ended the United Launch Alliance monopoly of U S military payloads when it began to compete for national security launches.