Space X

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (doing business as SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, space launch provider, and a satellite communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. It manufactures the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, several rocket engines, Cargo Dragon, crew spacecraft, and Starlink communications satellites.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
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Headquarters in December 2017; plumes from a flight of a Falcon 9 rocket are visible overhead
Trade name
SpaceX
Type
Private
Industry
Space, communications
Founded
March 14, 2002; 20 years ago in El Segundo, California, U.S.[1]
Founder
Elon Musk
Headquarters
Hawthorne, California, United States
Key people
Elon Musk
(CEO, Chairman and CTO, 2002–present)[2]
Gwynne Shotwell
(president and COO)[3]
Products
Several launch vehicles
Several rocket engines
Dragon capsules
Starship (in development)
Starlink
Services
Orbital rocket launch, satellite internet
Revenue
US$2 billion (2018)[4]
Owner
Elon Musk Trust
(47.4% equity; 78.3% voting control)[5]
Number of employees
12,000[6] (April 2022)
Subsidiaries
Swarm Technologies
Website
www.spacex.com Edit this at Wikidata
SpaceX is developing a satellite internet constellation named Starlink to provide commercial internet service. In January 2020, the Starlink constellation became the largest satellite constellation ever launched, and as of September 2022 comprises over 3,000 small satellites in orbit.[7] The company is also developing Starship, a privately funded, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch system for interplanetary and orbital spaceflight. It is intended to become SpaceX's primary orbital vehicle once operational, supplanting the existing Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon fleet. It will have the highest payload capacity of any orbital rocket ever built on its debut, scheduled for 2022 pending launch license.[8]

SpaceX's achievements include the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit around Earth;[9] 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.

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