ELON MUSK:

CREATIONS AND
INVENTIONS
STUDENT: GIANCARLO ESQUIVEL
 STARSHIP

• Starship is a fully-reusable, super-heavy-lift

launch vehicle being developed by SpaceX, an
American aerospace manufacturer. It will be the
tallest and most powerful launch vehicle ever
built. Starship is a two-stage-to-orbit launch
vehicle, consisting of the Super Heavy booster
stage and the Starship second stage or
spacecraft. The spacecraft is planned to have
four main variants: cargo, crew, propellant
tanker, and lunar lander.
 TESLA

• Tesla is an American multinational automotive

and clean energy company headquartered in
Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures
electric vehicles (electric cars and trucks),
battery energy storage from home to grid-scale,
solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related
products and services. Tesla is one of the world's
most valuable companies and remains the
world's most valuable automaker with a market
capitalization of more than US$800 billion.
 SOLAR CITY

• SolarCity Corporation was a publicly traded

company headquartered in Fremont, California
that sold and installed solar energy generation
systems as well as other related products and
services to residential, commercial, and
industrial customers.
 FALCON HEAVY

• Falcon Heavy is a partially reusable heavy-lift

launch vehicle that is produced by SpaceX, an
American aerospace manufacturer. The rocket
consists of two strap-on boosters made from
Falcon 9 first stages, a center core also made
from a Falcon 9 first stage, and a second stage
on top.
 X.COM

• X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon

Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed
Ho in 1999 in Palo Alto, California. In 2000,
X.com merged with competitor Confinity Inc., a
software company also based in Palo Alto. Musk
was attracted to Confinity because of its easy
payment system. The merged company changed
its name to PayPal. eBay bought PayPal for US$1
billion in 2002. In 2015, PayPal was spun off and
became an independent company.
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