Space Exploration Technologies

With its headquarters in Hawthorne, California, Space Exploration Technologies—doing business as SpaceX—is an American company that produces satellites, conducts space launches, and manufactures spacecraft. This is one of the interesting facts about Elon Musk. Elon Musk established SpaceX in 2002 with the intention of bringing down the price of space travel to make it possible to colonize Mars. The Cargo Dragon, crew spacecraft, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, as well as a number of rocket engines, are all produced by SpaceX.

To deliver paid internet access, SpaceX is creating the Starlink satellite internet constellation. The Starlink constellation was the biggest satellite constellation ever when it was launched in January 2020, and as of May 2022, it had more than 2,400 tiny satellites in orbit.

The company is also working on Starship, a fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch system for interplanetary and orbital travel that is being privately funded. When Starship makes its debut in 2022, subject to receiving a launch permit, it will have the biggest payload capacity of any orbital rocket ever built. The first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to orbit the Earth, the first private business to launch, orbit, and retrieve a spacecraft, the first private corporation to deliver a spacecraft to the International Space Station, and more are among SpaceX's accomplishments.