SpaceX

SpaceX (officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecrafts that are capable of carrying both crewed missions into orbit around Earth as well as unmanned cargo payloads to destinations beyond our planet.

The company has achieved a number of significant milestones since its inception including becoming the first private entity to launch a rocket into orbit in 2008 with their Falcon 1 vehicle; delivering supplies to the International Space Station via its Dragon capsule beginning 2012; launching satellites for commercial customers such as Iridium Communications; sending astronauts from NASA’s Commercial Crew Program on flights aboard their vehicles starting 2019; landing boosters back at Earth after each mission thanks to reusable technology developed by SpaceX engineers; and launching Starlink-a low earth orbiting satellite constellation designed for global broadband internet access coverage which started deployment in 2020. As part of this initiative, they have also launched over 2200 total orbital missions using Falcon 9 & Heavy Rockets along with Dragon Capsules so far.

In addition to these accomplishments, SpaceX has been making progress towards developing Starship—an interplanetary transport system intended for human exploration beyond Earth’s atmosphere—as well as constructing spaceports across America where they can offer suborbital passenger flights powered by their Raptor engines within 2021 or 2022 timeframe . The ultimate aim is enabling humanity’s journey deep into outer space without having us dependent on government agencies like NASA anymore!