About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft
- Industry
- Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Hawthorne, California
- Founded
- 2002
- Company type
- Privately Held
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary.
SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth - a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.
For more information, visit www.spacex.com.
Specialties
- Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Rockets
- Dragon Cargo and Crew Spacecraft
- Merlin Rocket Engines
- Draco and SuperDraco Thrusters
- PICA-X high performance heat shield material
- and Satellite Development
Company locations
Rocket Road, Hawthorne, California, US
Rocket Road, McGregor, TX, US
Rocket Road, Cape Canaveral AFS, FL 32920, US
1030 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, US
731 Kelp Road SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB, CA 93437, US
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- Followers
- 3,525,601
- People linked to this company
- 18,457
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