SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

About

Founded

2002

Headquarters

Hawthorne, California

Industry

Space, Hardware, Aerospace

Company Description

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.

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Funding

Total Raised

$9.8 billion

Valuation

$137 billion

Significant Investors

Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Gigafund

Company Traction

  • As of May 2023, SpaceX has 230 total launches, 191 total landings, and 165 total reflights.
  • As of May 2023, SpaceX has launched 1272 metric tons of payload into various orbits.
  • In 2022, SpaceX completed 61 launches.

Leadership Team

  • Elon Musk: Co-Founder and CEO of SpaceX. CEO of Tesla, The Boring Company, and Twitter.
  • Bret Johnsen: CFO and President of Strategic Acquisitions Group at SpaceX. Former CFO at Mindspeed Technologies.
  • Charles Kuehmann: VP of Materials Engineering at SpaceX. Former Director of Product Design at Apple.
  • Joe Petrzelka: VP of Starship Engineering at SpaceX. Former Manufacturing Engineer Intern at John Deere.

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