SpaceX

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Avik Kumar Dutta(17028)
THE COMPANY
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX,
is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services
company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of
reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of
Mars.
SpaceX has since developed the Falcon launch vehicle family and the
Dragon spacecraft family, which both currently deliver payloads into
Earth orbit.
SpaceX revolutionized space technology. It is the only private company ever
to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit.
VISION
Goal is to reduce space travel costs enough to enable
colonization of Mars
Primary method of achieving this is reusable rockets!
Current revenue comes from NASA and commercial
projects
PRODUCTS

Launch Vehicles (Falcon Series)

Dragon Spacecraft
Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT)
Satellites (2015)
 ACHIEVEMENTS
The first privately funded liquid-fuelled rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1 Flight 4 September 28,
2008)
The first privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft
(Falcon 9 Flight 2 December 9, 2010)
The first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (Falcon 9
Flight 3 May 25, 2012)
The first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit (Falcon 9 Flight 7
December 3, 2013)
The first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on land (Falcon 9 Flight 20 December 22,
2015)
The first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on an ocean platform (Falcon 9 Flight 23
April 8, 2016)
The first relaunch and landing of a used orbital rocket (Falcon 9 Flight 32 March 30, 2017)
The first controlled fly back and recovery of a payload fairing (Falcon 9 Flight 32 March 30,
2017)
The first reflight of a commercial cargo spacecraft. (Falcon 9 Flight 35 June 3, 2017)
FUNDING
Seed Round: $100M by March 1, 2006 (Elon Musk)
Series A - D: $145.4M between August, 2008 and December, 2012. (Investors
include DFJ, Founders Fund)
Series E: $1 Billion on January 20, 2015 by Google, DFJ and others.
Current valuation is around $10 Billion. IPO expected
around 2020.
Revenue from Elon Musks other ventures like Zip2, X.com and PayPal, Tesla,
SolarCity, Hyperloop, OpenAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company.
COMPETITORS

Arianespace (French)
Boeing
Lockheed Martin
United Launch Alliance
 FUTURE PLANS
SpaceX plans to send two private citizens around the Moon in its Dragon 2
spacecraft in 2018. The company has selected two participants for the mission,
which is being funded by NASA and cash from the citizens.
SpaceX plan to fly two private citizens around the moon SpaceX plan to fly two
private citizens around the moon.
The trip will mark the first time humans have been sent to deep space in 45 years
and will launch from the same pad the Apollo programme used to send humans
to the Moon in 1969. If all goes to plan, those on board will break a record for
travelling the fastest and farthest into the Solar System.
Musk's ultimate goal is to send humans to Mars. As part of his plan to create a
colony on the planet, he hopes the first spacecraft carrying humans will set off in
the mid-2020s. Before then, he hopes SpaceX will send an unmanned mission to
Mars in 2020.
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