Introduction
SpaceX, founded by visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk, is curiocity sustended him to establish this revolutionary brand named SpaceX for space study and exploration. With cutting edge Technology, bold ambitions and great streak of achievement , SpaceX has captured the imagination of the world. In this blog, we will delve into the incredible journey of SpaceX, its groundbreaking accomplishments, and the future of space exploration that the company envisions and Journey of SpaceX with Founder Elon Musk.
SpaceX ::
The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, 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 spacecrafts, the Starlink mega-constellation satellite and rocket engines.
Since / Founded : March 14, 2002; 21 years ago in El Segundo, California, U.S.
 |
| Elon Musk |
Headquarter :: Hawthorne, California, US
 |
| SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California |
Key People :: Elon Musk (CEO, Chairman and CTO)
Gwynne Shotwell (President and COO)
 |
| Gwynne Shotwell |
Manufactures :: Launch Vehicle
Rocket Engines
Dragon capsules
Satellite constellation
Starlink
SpaceBEE
Revenue:: $2 Billion (2018)
No. Of employees:: 12000 (April 2022)
Website :: SpaceX Website
What Is SpaceX::
SpaceX is a privately owned aerospace company that launches freight and satellites into orbit. The platform has established a reusable rocket and launch mechanism to significantly reduce the cost of space travel.
The business sent a cargo ship to the ISS for the first time in 2012 as a private corporation. The business gained notoriety in 2010 by being the first private corporation to launch a payload into orbit and safely return it to the earth.
After travelling to orbit and returned via the Falcon 9 rocket, the platform landed upright on December 21, 2015, marking yet another first for the business.
On May 30, 2020, SpaceX launched their first crewed mission, which included the Demo-2 test flight.
The Origin Of SpaceX
When Musk and a few of his pals went to Russia in 2001 to buy several intercontinental ballistic missiles, that is when it all started. The man didn't want to start a business at the time; instead, he wanted to use his riches to buy a cheap Russian rocket so that he could send some plants or mice to Mars and guarantee their safe return.
However, the meeting was fruitless, prompting Musk to believe that he could build the rockets himself. A few months later, SpaceX was founded.
In this manner, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, now known as SpaceX, was founded. Musk wanted to create a rocket that was affordable, reusable.
With the purpose of accomplishing this, Musk recruited the rocket designer Tom Mueller, with whom the platform invested two years in setting up Falcon 1. A portion of the endeavor was contributed by Musk who invested $100 million from his own personal funds.
Following 3 unsuccessful attempts, Falcon 1 succeeded in venturing into space in 2008. In 2010, Falcon 9 emerged as the primary private space shuttle for traveling to and from Earth orbit.
Missions of SpaceX
Since June 2010, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 241 times, with 239 full mission successes, one partial failure and one total loss of the spacecraft. In addition, one rocket and its payload were destroyed on the launch pad during the fueling process before a static fire test was set to occur.
The Falcon 9 rocket family, created and run by for-profit company SpaceX, includes the inactive Blocks 1 through 4 and the decommissioned Falcon 9 v1.0, v1.1, and v1.2 "Full Thrust" variants. Using two Falcon 9 first stages as the side boosters and a reinforced central core, Falcon Heavy is a heavy-lift variant of Falcon 9.
 |
| Left to right: Falcon 9 v1.0, v1.1, v1.2 "Full Thrust", Falcon 9 Block 5, Falcon Heavy, and Falcon Heavy Block 5 |
Reusable first-stage boosters are a characteristic of the Falcon design, and they may either land on a ground pad close to the launch site or on a drone ship at sea.[2] In December 2015, Falcon 9 made history by landing propulsion-assisted after orbiting a cargo.[3] The cost of launching has greatly decreased as a result of its reusability.[4][5] In 214 tries, core boosters from the Falcon family have landed successfully 203 times. 38 boosters in all have flown multiple flights, with a maximum of 15 missions being flown by one booster.
Falcon 9's typical missions include cargo delivery and crewed flights to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Dragon and Dragon 2 capsules, launch of communications satellites and Earth observation satellites to geostationary transfer orbits (GTO), and low Earth orbits (LEO), some of them at a polar inclination. The heaviest payload launched to LEO is a batch of 56 Starlink v1.5 satellites weighing a total of around 17,400 kg (38,400 lb) on 26 January 2023.[6] The heaviest payload launched to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) was Intelsat 35e with 6,761 kg (14,905 lb).[a] Launches to higher orbits have included the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) probe to the Sun–Earth Lagrange point L1, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space telescope on a lunar flyby trajectory, the Falcon Heavy test flight which launched Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into a heliocentric orbit extending beyond the orbit of Mars, and Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) into the minor-planet moon Dimorphos of the double asteroid Didymos.
SpaceX Future Missions 2023
- The company plans to eventually use Starship for crewed missions to Mars.
- First orbital launch of the SpaceX Starship.
- Falcon Heavy launch of USSF-67.
- 1st launch of ULA's Vulcan Centaur carrying commercial lunar lander.
- SpaceX Crew 6 mission.
- Polaris Dawn space tourism spacewalk mission.
- Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test.
- And many more
Elon Musk full information in next blog
Click here to view ↘️
⚡ ELON MUSK BLOG
Thank you for visiting
