SPACE-X

AGENDA
• Introduction
• History
• Hardware
• References

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INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS SPACE-X?

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., commonly

referred to as SpaceX, is an American space
technology company headquartered at the SpaceX
Starbase near Brownsville, Texas.

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WHAT IS SPACE-X?
SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2001 with a vision of decreasing
the costs of space launches, paving the way to a sustainable colony on
Mars. In 2008, when SpaceX was almost bankrupt, Falcon 1
successfully launched into orbit launch attempts. The company then
pivoted towards the development of the larger Falcon 9 rocket and the
Dragon 1 capsule to satisfy NASA's COTS contracts for deliveries to the
International Space Station. By 2012, SpaceX finished all COTS test
flights and began delivering Commercial Resupply Services missions to
the International Space Station. Also, around that time, SpaceX started
developing hardware to make the Falcon 9 first stage reusable. The
company demonstrated the first successful first-stage landing in 2015
and re-launch of the first stage in 2017. Falcon Heavy, built from three
Falcon 9 boosters, first flew in 2018 after a more than decade-long
development process. As of October 2024, the company's Falcon 9
rockets have landed and flown again more than 330 times, reaching 1-
25 launches a week.
HISTORY
The background of this big
company.
2001-2004: FOUNDING

Musk returned with his

In early 2001, Elon Musk team to Moscow, this
met Robert Zubrin and time bringing Michael
donated US$100,000 to Griffin, who later became
his Mars Society, joining the 11th Administrator of
its board of directors for NASA, but found the
a short time. Russians increasingly
unreceptive.

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 2001-2004: FOUNDING

Early SpaceX employees,

Musk has stated that one
such as Tom Mueller
of his goals with SpaceX
In early 2002, Elon Musk (CTO), Gwynne Shotwell
is to decrease the cost
started to look for staff (COO), and Chris
and improve the
for his company, soon to Thompson (VP of
reliability of access to
be named SpaceX. Operations), came from
space, ultimately by a
neighboring TRW and
factor of ten.
Boeing corporations.

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2005–2009: FALCON 1 AND FIRST ORBITAL
LAUNCHES

SpaceX developed its first orbital launch vehicle, the Falcon 1, with internal funding.
[24][25] The Falcon 1 was an expendable two-stage-to-orbit small-lift launch
vehicle. The total development cost of Falcon 1 was approximately $90 million[26]
to $100 million. The Falcon rocket series was named after Star Wars's Millennium
Falcon fictional spacecraft.

In 2004, SpaceX protested against NASA to the Government Accountability Office

(GAO) because of a sole-source contract awarded to Kistler Aerospace. Before the
GAO could respond, NASA withdrew the contract, and formed the COTS program.

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2005–2009: FALCON 1 AND FIRST ORBITAL
LAUNCHES

The first two Falcon 1 launches were purchased by the United States
Department of Defense under the DARPA Falcon Project which
evaluated new US launch vehicles suitable for use in hypersonic
missile delivery for Prompt Global Strike..

The financial situation started to turn around with the first successful
launch achieved on the fourth attempt on 28 September 2008. Musk
split his remaining $30 million between SpaceX and Tesla, and NASA
awarded the first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract
awarding $1.6 billion to SpaceX in December, thus financially saving
the company.
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2010–2012: FALCON 9, DRAGON, AND NASA
CONTRACTS

Duration: 1 minute and 53 seconds.

SpaceX originally intended to follow its light Falcon 1 launch vehicle with an intermediate
capacity vehicle, the Falcon 5. The company instead decided in 2005 to proceed with the
development of the Falcon 9, a reusable heavier lift vehicle. Development of the Falcon 9 was
accelerated by NASA, which committed to purchasing several commercial flights if specific
capabilities were demonstrated. This started with seed money from the Commercial Orbital
Transportation Services (COTS) program in 2006.

The overall contract award was $278 million to provide development funding for the Dragon
spacecraft, Falcon 9, and demonstration launches of Falcon 9 with Dragon. As part of this
contract, the Falcon 9 launched for the first time in June 2010 with the Dragon Spacecraft
Qualification Unit, using a mockup of the Dragon spacecraft.

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2010–2012: FALCON 9, DRAGON, AND NASA
CONTRACTS

The first operational Dragon spacecraft was launched in December 2010

aboard COTS Demo Flight 1, the Falcon 9's second flight, and safely returned
to Earth after two orbits, completing all its mission objectives. By December
2010, the SpaceX production line was manufacturing one Falcon 9 and Dragon
every three months.

In April 2011, as part of its second-round Commercial Crew Development

(CCDev) program, NASA issued a $75 million contract for SpaceX to develop
an integrated launch escape system for Dragon in preparation for human-
rating it as a crew transport vehicle to the ISS.[40] NASA awarded SpaceX a
fixed-price Space Act Agreement (SAA) to produce a detailed design of the
crew transportation system in August 2012.

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2013–2015: Commercial launches and rapid
growth

• SpaceX launched the first commercial mission for a private

customer in 2013. In 2014, SpaceX won nine contracts out
of the 20 that were openly competed worldwide.

• In January 2015, SpaceX raised $1 billion in funding from

Google and Fidelity Investments, in exchange for 8.33% of
the company, establishing the company valuation at
approximately $12 billion. The same month SpaceX
announced the development of a new satellite
constellation, called Starlink, to provide global broadband
internet service with 4,000 satellites.

• The Falcon 9 had its first major failure in late June 2015,
when the seventh ISS resupply mission, CRS-7 exploded
two minutes into the flight. The problem was traced to a
failed 2-foot-long steel strut that held a helium pressure
vessel, which broke free due to the force of acceleration.
This caused a breach and allowed high-pressure helium to
escape into the low-pressure propellant tank, causing the
failure.
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2015–2017: REUSABILITY MILESTONES

SpaceX first achieved a successful landing

and recovery of a first stage in December
2015 with Falcon 9 Flight 20. In April 2016,
the company achieved the first successful
landing on the autonomous spaceport
drone ship (ASDS) Of Course I Still Love
You in the Atlantic Ocean. By October
2016, following the successful landings,
SpaceX indicated they were offering their
customers a 10% price discount if they
choose to fly their payload on a reused
Falcon 9 first stage

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PRODUCTS
Lemme try something new
today!
Product Date

Starship January 2012

Crewed Launches May 2020

Starlink May 2019

HARDWARE
“Why did the computer show
up late to work? It had a hard
drive!”
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Launch vehicles
Rocket engines

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• Dragon spacecraft

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Autonomous spaceport drone ships
Starlink

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