SpaceX

Extracted Attributes

• Founded

  2002-03-14

• Founder

  Elon Musk

• Industry

  Space technology, Telecommunications

• Products

  Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Starship, Cargo Dragon, Crew Dragon, Starlink communication satellites, Starshield

• Employees

  12000

• Full Name

  Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

• Stated Goal

  Reducing space transportation costs to enable Mars colonization

• Company Type

  Private

• Headquarters

  Starbase, Texas, United States

• Revenue (2024)

  Over $10 billion

• Market Position (2025)

  World's dominant space launch provider

• Design and Manufacturing Facility

  Hawthorne, California, United States

Timeline

• SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk with the goal of decreasing space launch costs and enabling Mars colonization. (Source: summary, Wikidata, web_search_results)

  2002-03-14

• Falcon 1 successfully launches into orbit after three failed attempts, marking the first privately developed liquid-propellant rocket to reach Earth orbit. (Source: Wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2008

• Dragon spacecraft becomes the first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS). (Source: Wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2012

• SpaceX achieves the first successful first-stage landing of a Falcon 9 rocket. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2015

• SpaceX successfully re-flies a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for the first time, demonstrating reusability. (Source: web_search_results)

  2017

• Falcon Heavy, built from three Falcon 9 boosters, completes its first flight. (Source: Wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2018

• The first operational satellite of the Starlink internet constellation comes online. (Source: Wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2019

• SpaceX begins operating its Dragon 2 capsules for crewed missions, becoming the first private company to send astronauts to orbit and to the International Space Station. (Source: Wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2020

• SpaceX's revenue is estimated to be over $10 billion. (Source: summary, Wikipedia)

  2024

• In a fictionalized account, SpaceX conducts a rescue mission to save astronauts stranded by a Boeing Starliner failure, highlighting its dominance in the space race. (Source: related_documents)

  2025-03

• SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets have landed and flown again more than 450 times, achieving a launch cadence of 1-3 launches per week. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-05

SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American space technology company headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas. Since its founding in 2002, the company has made numerous advances in rocket propulsion, reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight and satellite constellation technology. As of 2025, SpaceX is the world's dominant space launch provider, its launch cadence eclipsing all others, including private competitors and national programs like the Chinese space program. SpaceX, NASA, and the United States Armed Forces work closely together by means of governmental contracts. SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with a vision of decreasing the costs of space launches, paving the way to a sustainable colony on Mars. In 2008, Falcon 1 successfully launched into orbit after three failed launch attempts. The company then moved towards the development of the larger Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon 1 capsule to satisfy NASA's COTS contracts for deliveries to the International Space Station. By 2012, SpaceX finished all COTS test flights and began delivering Commercial Resupply Services missions to the International Space Station. Also around that time, SpaceX started developing hardware to make the Falcon 9 first stage reusable. The company demonstrated the first successful first-stage landing in 2015 and re-launch of the first stage in 2017. Falcon Heavy, built from three Falcon 9 boosters, first flew in 2018 after a more than decade-long development process. As of May 2025, the company's Falcon 9 rockets have landed and flown again more than 450 times, reaching 1–3 launches a week. These milestones delivered the company much-needed investment and SpaceX sought to diversify its sources of income. In 2019, the first operational satellite of the Starlink internet satellite constellation came online. In subsequent years, Starlink generated the bulk of SpaceX's income and paved the way for its Starshield military counterpart. In 2020, SpaceX began to operate its Dragon 2 capsules to deliver crewed missions for NASA and private entities. Around this time, SpaceX began building test prototypes for Starship, which is the largest launch vehicle in history and aims to fully realize the company's vision of a fully-reusable, cost-effective and adaptable launch vehicle. SpaceX is also developing its own space suit and astronaut via its Polaris program as well as developing the human lander for lunar missions under NASA's Artemis program. SpaceX is not publicly traded; a space industry newspaper estimated that SpaceX has a revenue of over $10 billion in 2024.

Web Search Results

• SpaceX - Wikipedia

  Space Exploration Technologies Corp., commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an Americanspace technology company headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas.( Since its founding in 2002, the company has made numerous advances in rocket propulsion, reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight and satellite constellation technology. As of 2025( SpaceX is the world's dominant space launch provider, its launch cadence eclipsing all others, including private competitors and national [...] SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with a vision of decreasing the costs of space launches, paving the way to a sustainable colony on Mars. In 2008, Falcon 1 successfully launched into orbit after three failed launch attempts. The company then moved towards the development of the larger Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon 1 capsule to satisfy NASA's COTS contracts for deliveries to the International Space Station. By 2012, SpaceX finished all COTS test flights and began delivering Commercial [...] Company headquarters, SpaceX Starbase in Starbase, Texas Trade nameSpaceX Company typePrivate Industry Space Telecommunications Founded March 14, 2002 (23 years ago)(2002-03-14) in El Segundo, California, U.S.( FounderElon Musk HeadquartersSpaceX Starbase, Starbase, Texas ,

• Mission - SpaceX

  SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company capable of returning a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, and in 2012 our Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station. And in 2020, SpaceX became the first private company to take humans there as well. Click through the timeline above to see some of our milestone accomplishments. [...] SpaceX designs and builds its reusable rockets and spacecraft at its headquarters in Hawthorne, California. As a company, SpaceX is vertically integrated, building the vast majority of the vehicle on the Hawthorne campus. SpaceX headquarters remains one of the few facilities in the world where you can see an entire launch vehicle or spacecraft come together under one roof. Image 7: TESTING FACILITY Texas TESTING FACILITY [...] Building on the achievements of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, SpaceX is working on a next generation of fully reusable launch vehicles that will be the most powerful ever built, capable of carrying humans to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. Learn More About Starship MAKING HISTORY ==============

• Elon Musk - Wikipedia

  In 2002, Musk founded the space technology company SpaceX, becoming its CEO and chief engineer; the company has since led innovations in reusable rockets and commercial spaceflight. Musk joined the automaker Tesla as an early investor in 2004 and became its CEO and product architect in 2008; it has since become a leader in electric vehicles. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI to advance artificial intelligence (AI) research but later left; growing discontent with the organization's direction and [...] Elon Reeve MuskFRS (/ˈ iː l ɒ n/_EE-lon_; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman. He is known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter) "X (formerly Twitter)"), and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk has been considered the wealthiest person in the world since 2021; as of May 2025,( estimates his net worth to be US$424.7 billion. [...] In 2015, SpaceX began development of the Starlink constellation of low Earth orbit satellites to provide satellite Internet access.( After the launch of prototype satellites in 2018, the first large constellation was deployed in May 2019.( As of May 2025( over 7,600 Starlink satellites are operational,( comprising 65% of all operational Earth satellites.( The total cost of the decade-long project to design, build, and deploy the constellation was estimated by SpaceX in 2020 to be $10 billion.(

• Elon Musk | Tesla

  completely unavailable. By pioneering reusable rockets, SpaceX is pursuing the long-term goal of making humans a multi-planet species by creating a self-sustaining city on Mars. [...] 2019, SpaceX’s crew-capable version of the Dragon spacecraft completed its first demonstration mission, and the company will fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in 2020. Building on these achievements, SpaceX is developing Starship – a fully reusable transportation system that will carry crew and cargo to the Moon, Mars and beyond ­– and Starlink, which will deliver high speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or [...] As lead designer at SpaceX, Elon oversees the development of rockets and spacecraft for missions to Earth orbit and ultimately to other planets. In 2008, the SpaceX Falcon 1 was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit, and SpaceX made further history in 2017 by re-flying both a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft for the first time. Soon after, Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two, completed its first flight in 2018. In

• SpaceX

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• Country

  United States

• Founder

  Elon Musk

• Employees

  12,000

• Instance Of

  Q43229

• Headquarters

  Hawthorne

• Inception Date

  3/14/2002

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and a satellite communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the stated goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. The company manufactures the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, several rocket engines, Cargo Dragon and Crew Dragon spacecraft, and Starlink communications satellites. 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.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, which is scheduled for 2022 pending a launch license. SpaceX's achievements include the first privately developed 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.