By David Rushdoony

Sample Products
Financial Info
● Currently private

● Initial funding from founder Elon Musk ($100

million by March 2006)

● $1 billion in funding from first ten years

● February 2012: roughly valued $1.3 billion

(⅔ of which Elon Musk’s)
History of Company
● June 2002: founded by Elon Musk

● Aug 2006: SpaceX wins contract from NASA

● Dec 2010: first company to launch/return

spacecraft from orbit

● May 2012: first company to have spacecraft

to attach to International Space Station
What’s Hot?
● NASA Contract: Human-
rated Dragon

● Reusable rocket launcher:

Grasshopper
Competition
Secret Sauce
● Free from bureaucracy

● Low cost launches

● Elon Musk
Story
● Dec 3, 2013: SpaceX deploys commercial
communications satellite

● Cost: $60,000 (tens of millions cheaper than

going rate)
Prediction
● Success!