Space Exploration Technologies Corp., trading as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company 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.[8][9][10] SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles and the Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX Headquarters during Iridium-4 launch operations, December 2017 |
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SpaceX | |
Private | |
Industry | Aerospace |
Founded | May 6, 2002; 18 years ago[1] |
Founder | Elon Musk |
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Key people |
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Products | |
Services | Orbital rocket launch |
Owner | Elon Musk Trust (54% equity; 78% voting control)[3] |
Number of employees |
8,000 (November 2019) |
Website | www.spacex.com |
Footnotes / references [4][5][6][7] |
SpaceX's achievements include the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1 in 2008),[11] the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Dragon in 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (Dragon in 2012),[12] the first propulsive landing for an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2015), the first reuse of an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2017), the first private company to launch an object into orbit around the Sun (Falcon Heavy's payload of a Tesla Roadster in 2018), and the first private company to send astronauts to the International Space Station (Dragon 2 in 2020).[13]SpaceX has flown 20[14] resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) under a partnership with NASA.[15] NASA also awarded SpaceX a further development contract in 2011 to develop and demonstrate a human-rated Dragon, which would be used to transport astronauts to the ISS and return them safely to Earth.[16][self-published source?] SpaceX conducted the maiden launch of its Dragon 2 spacecraft on a NASA-required demonstration flight (Crew Dragon Demo-1) on March 2, 2019, and launched its first crewed Dragon 2 on May 30, 2020.[17]
In December 2015, a Falcon 9 accomplished a propulsive vertical landing. This was the first such achievement by a rocket for orbital spaceflight.[18] In April 2016, with the launch of CRS-8, SpaceX successfully vertically landed the first stage on an ocean drone shiplanding platform.[19] In May 2016, in another first, SpaceX again landed the first stage, but during a significantly more energetic geostationary transfer orbit mission.[20] In March 2017, SpaceX became the first to successfully re-launch and land the first stage of an orbital rocket.[21] In January 2020, with the third launch of the Starlink project, SpaceX became the largest commercial satellite constellation operator in the world.[22][23]
In September 2016, CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Interplanetary Transport System, a privately funded launch system to develop spaceflight technology for use in crewed interplanetary spaceflight. In 2018, Musk unveiled an updated configuration of the system, named Starship, which is intended to become the primary SpaceX orbital vehicle after the early 2020s, as SpaceX has announced it intends to eventually replace its existing Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon 2fleet with Starship, even in the Earth-orbit satellite delivery market.[24][25][26]:24:50–27:05 Starship is planned to be fully reusable and will be the largest rocket ever on its debut, scheduled for the early 2020s.[27][28](from Internet)
2020.05.30 14:07
2020.05.30 14:28
Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June 28, 1971) is an engineer, industrial designer and technology entrepreneur.[2][3][4] He is a citizen of South Africa, Canada, and the United States. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX;[5] early investor[6][note 2], CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.;[9][10]founder of The Boring Company;[11] co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI.[12]He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[13][14] In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People,[15] and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019.[16] As of May 2020, he has a net worth of $36.5 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 31st-richest person in the world.[17][1] He is the longest tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.[18](from Internet)
Elon Musk |
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Born |
Elon Reeve Musk June 28, 1971(age 48) |
Citizenship | South Africa (1971–present) Canada (1971–present) United States (2002–present) |
Education | University of Pretoria Queen's University University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS) |
Home town | Hillsborough, California, United States[note 1] |
Net worth | US$36.5 billion (May 2020)[1] |
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Spouse(s) |
Justine Wilson Talulah Riley (m. 2013; div. 2016) |
Partner(s) | Grimes (2018–present) |
Children | 7 (1 deceased) |
Relatives | Maye Musk(mother) Kimbal Musk(brother) Tosca Musk(sister) Lyndon Rive(cousin) |
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Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received a bachelor's degreein economics from the Wharton School and a bachelor's degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue a business career. He subsequently co-founded (with his brother Kimbal) Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000, which had launched PayPal the previous year and was subsequently bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.[9][19][20][21]
In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He joined Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.), an electric vehicle manufacturer, in 2004, the year after it was founded,[9] and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla). In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel construction company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles.
In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop. Musk has said the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to "change the world and help humanity".[22] His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and lessening the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.[23][24][better source needed](from Internet)
2020.05.31 01:38
The entire thing was a brilliant success. I am glad it was!!
The first rocket returned (landed) safely back on to the barge near St. Johns, New Foundland,
and the astronauts safely arrived at the International Space Station as of this morning.
Elon Musk should be congratulated on his "brave" adventure and the execution of his dream into a reality.
Out of the entire humanity, how many of us can plan and achieve such a thing?
This is what we call a true "macho" and true "adventure" of a man.
No matter what happens to him from now on, he should remain as my hero.
2020.05.31 01:51
Miriam Kramer, author of Space
The Crew Dragon just before docking on Sunday. Photo: NASA TV
SpaceX's Crew Dragon safely delivered two NASA astronauts — Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken — to the International Space Station on Sunday after the company's historic launch Saturday.
Why it matters: This marks the first time a private company has delivered people to the space station, and it signals the beginning of the end of NASA's reliance on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft for flights to orbit.
Details: Behnken and Hurley docked to the station at 10:16am ET after spending about 19 hours flying through space to catch up to the orbiting outpost.
The big picture: NASA hopes to continue working with private companies in the future in order to become a buyer of services in low-Earth orbit, opening up the agency to work on getting humans to the Moon and beyond.
What's next: The Crew Dragon and its astronauts will stay docked to the space station for at least the next month and could remain in orbit longer, depending on how the capsule performs in orbit.
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It was so refreshing to watch the launching of Dragon rocket with two astronauts today
in the middle of chaos of riots in all major cities and the ongoing Pandemic.
It is just amazing to see what one man's dream, that is, that of Elton Musk, can achieve
in this country, the best electric cars and now the best space ships for the future of mankind.
Who said this country, America, is not good?
Musk has said the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to "change the world and help humanity".