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Making life multiplanetary
HQ: Hawthorne, CA, United States | Founded: 2002 | Employees: 13,000+ | Stage: Late Stage Private (Pre-IPO) | Website: https://www.spacex.com
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk in Hawthorne, California — now transitioning its headquarters to Starbase, Texas — with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. The company designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, achieving the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1, 2008), the first private spacecraft to dock with the ISS (Dragon, 2012), and the first orbital-class rocket landing and reuse (Falcon 9, 2015). Its manifest now exceeds 130 launches per year, capturing over 80% of global mass to orbit.
SpaceX operates two complementary businesses: launch services powered by Falcon 9 ($67M per launch), Falcon Heavy, and the next-generation f
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