Private Space Company - SpaceX

 

SPACEX

SpaceX is an aerospace manufacturing and space transport services company  and it is privately owned company . The company was founded by Elon Musk  in 2002

                                

                                                      

ELON MUSK

                      Elon musk was born in South Africa  in 1971, when he was 12 years old , creates a video game called blaster and sells it for equivalent of  $500.

 He confounded Zip2 which was sold for 340 million dollar.  

 In  1999 he founded XCOM which merged with Khan Finity to became  Paypal and only to sold to eBay for 1.5  billion dollars. 

                               

   

 GOAL OF SPACEX

• Developing affordable space vehicle.  
• Establishing  a human foothold  on mars  by reducing the cost of launching material  into space . 
• And aiming to deploy satellite based internet services over the next few year.

                              

  ACHIEVEMENT OF SPACEX

•      SpaceX  was the first company to lunch  into  space a privately built space craft . 
•      In 2010 SpaceX lunch a craft to the international space  station 
•     It was the first private company to successfully launched orbit and returns safely to land.
•    SpaceX has developed the falcon 1 and falcon 9  lunching vehicles  with capability of partially reusing it again.
•     SpaceX  launched  Dragon space craft in 2010 it was the first commercial space capsule to enter the international space station  and it was built to carry cargo and seven people up to space 
•     SpaceX has a university internship program it gives the opportunity for the students  to  be a part of internship program which runs 12 weeks  every year   their program is  big chance for those who wanted to play a direct role in transforming space exploration
•  US Air force awarded SpaceX  with a 291 million dollar contract  to launch a military GpsIII  satellite by 2020  launch was take place either at  canaveral air force station or the kennedy space station
• In 2017 SpaceX beat the records with 18 complete launch.
•   Space x  built the most powerful falcon 9  rocket ever made   on 6th february  2018  its heights above 70 meters tall and can lift almost  64  tons  of payload ,  falcon 9 has a total of 27 engines  and capable of pulling 5 million pounds of force.
• Elon musk was ranked number 25 on the list of the world most powerful people. 

2020 ACHIEVEMENTS

•       SpaceX launched NASA astronauts into space  for the first time .  This is also  the  first launch of  NASA astronauts from US since 2011.
•       The  crew dragon  is the first privately developed mission  to bring people to the international space station and has system of  control focused touch screen .

                                      

UPCOMING MISSION

              Elon Musk announced  his plans to build a large  spaceship to reach Mars and plan to land at least  two unscrewed cargoes onto the planet by 2022 .