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History of SpaceX. Entry to SpaceX's headquarters, showing the Dragon capsule used in the COTS Demo Flight 1, a Falcon 9 's landing leg and the glassy control room. This is a corporate history of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded by Elon Musk .
NASA awarded SpaceX a fixed-price Space Act Agreement (SAA) to produce a detailed design of the crew transportation system in August 2012. [46] In early 2012, approximately two-thirds of SpaceX stock was owned by Musk [47] and his seventy million shares were then estimated to be worth $875 million on private markets , [48] valuing SpaceX at $1. ...
Elon Reeve Musk (⫽ ˈ iː l ɒ n ⫽; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., formerly Twitter, and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink and OpenAI.
Elon Musk’s X may be flailing, but another company owned by the billionaire is on track to reach dizzying heights. Musk is in talks to sell between $500 million and $750 million of SpaceX stock ...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - commonly known as SpaceX - has rocketed to public prominence and a valuation of $125 million, even as its actual ownership remains very much out of sight.
The latest in a recent line of space-obsessed billionaires was set for liftoff on Wednesday with three less wealthy private citizens along for the ride aboard a SpaceX rocket ship, seeking to ...
Stoke Space Nova is a fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicle being developed by Stoke Space that was announced in 2021. [14] [15] It is planned to use two stages with a planned payload capacity of 5 t (5,000 kg) to low eargh orbit ( LEO ). The company is using 7 conventional full-flow-staged combustion rocket engines, burning methalox.
Starship is a two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. As of June 2024, it is the most massive and most powerful vehicle ever to fly. [4] Starship is intended to lower launch costs significantly via economies of scale. [5] This is achieved by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing ...