SpaceX Evolution from 2002 to 2022 | Space Exploration | Elon Musk

August 20, 2023

SpaceX Evolution from 2002 to 2022 | Space Exploration | Elon Musk | #shorts #elonmusk #spacex

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and to colonize Mars. The company manufactures the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Starship heavy-lift launch vehicles, the Cargo Dragon and Crew Dragon spacecraft, the Starlink mega-constellation satellite and rocket engines.

The company offers commercial satellite-based internet service via its constellation of Starlink satellites, which became the largest-ever satellite constellation in January 2020 and as of June 2023 comprised more than 4,300 small satellites in orbit.

The company is also developing Starship, a fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch system for interplanetary and orbital spaceflight. On its failed first flight in April 2023, it became the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown. Starship is intended to become SpaceX’s primary orbital vehicle, supplanting the existing Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon fleet.

SpaceX is the first private company to develop a liquid-propellant rocket that has reached orbit; to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft; to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station; and to send astronauts to the International Space Station. It is also the first organization of any type to achieve a vertical propulsive landing of an orbital rocket booster and the first to reuse such a booster. The company’s Falcon 9 rockets have landed and reflown more than 180 times.

2001–2004: Founding
2005–2009: Falcon 1 and first orbital launches
2010–2012: Falcon 9, Dragon, and NASA contracts
2013–2015: Commercial launches and rapid growth
2015–2017: Reusability milestones
2017–2018: Leading global commercial launch provider
2019–2022: Starship, Starlink, and first crewed launches

Summary of achievements
28 September 2008 : First privately funded fully liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit.
14 July 2009 :First privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to put a commercial satellite in orbit.
9 December 2010 : First private company to successfully launch, and recover a spacecraft.
25 May 2012 : First private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station .
22 December 2015 : First landing of an orbital-class rocket’s first stage on land.
8 April 2016 : First landing of an orbital-class rocket’s first stage on an ocean platform.
3 June 2017 : First re-flight of a commercial cargo spacecraft.
6 February 2018 : First private spacecraft launched into heliocentric orbit.
1 November 2019 : First reuse and re flight of payload fairing.
31 May 2020 : First private company to send humans to the International Space Station.
24 November 2021 : Longest streak of orbital launches without a mission failure .
20 October 2022 : Highest number of launches of a single rocket type in a calendar year .
20 April 2023 : Tallest, most powerful rocket to ever launch .

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