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    SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable human colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles including the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. Some key achievements of SpaceX include being the first private company to launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft; the first private company to send a spacecraft to and from the International Space Station; and the first private company to send astronauts to the ISS. SpaceX is also developing Starship, a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended for interplanetary travel and satellite delivery, to eventually replace Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.

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    SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable human colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles including the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. Some key achievements of SpaceX include being the first private company to launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft; the first private company to send a spacecraft to and from the International Space Station; and the first private company to send astronauts to the ISS. SpaceX is also developing Starship, a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended for interplanetary travel and satellite delivery, to eventually replace Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.

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    Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

    , trading as SpaceX, is an
    American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services
    company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in
    2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation
    costs to enable the colonization of Mars.[9][10][11] SpaceX has
    developed several launch vehicles, the Starlink satellite constellation,
    and the Dragon spacecraft.
    SpaceX's achievements include the first privately funded liquid-
    propellant rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1 in 2008),[12] the first private
    company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft
    (Dragon in 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft to
    the International Space Station (Dragon in 2012),[13] the first propulsive
    landing for an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2015), the first reuse of an
    orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2017), the first private company to launch
    an object into orbit around the Sun (Falcon Heavy's payload of a Tesla
    Roadster in 2018), and the first private company to send astronauts to
    the International Space Station (Dragon 2 in 2020).[14] SpaceX has
    flown 20[15] cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station
    (ISS) under a partnership with NASA,[16] as well as an uncrewed
    demonstration flight of the human-rated Dragon 2 spacecraft (Crew
    Dragon Demo-1) on March 2, 2019, and the first crewed Dragon 2
    flight on May 30, 2020.[14]
    In December 2015, a Falcon 9 accomplished a propulsive vertical
    landing. This was the first such achievement by a rocket for orbital
    spaceflight.[17] In April 2016, with the launch of CRS-8, SpaceX
    successfully vertically landed the first stage on an ocean drone
    ship landing platform.[18] In May 2016, in another first, SpaceX again
    landed the first stage, but during a significantly more
    energetic geostationary transfer orbit mission.[19] In March 2017,
    SpaceX became the first to successfully re-launch and land the first
    stage of an orbital rocket.[20] In January 2020, with the third launch of
    the Starlink project, SpaceX became the largest commercial satellite
    constellation operator in the world.[21][22]
    In September 2016, Musk unveiled the Interplanetary Transport
    System—subsequently renamed Starship—a privately funded launch
    system to develop spaceflight technology for use in
    crewed interplanetary spaceflight. In 2017, Musk unveiled an updated
    configuration of the system which is intended to handle interplanetary
    missions plus become the primary SpaceX orbital vehicle after the
    early 2020s, as SpaceX has announced it intends to eventually
    replace its existing Falcon 9 launch vehicles and Dragon space
    capsule fleet with Starship, even in the Earth-orbit satellite delivery
    market.[23][24][25]:24:50–27:05 Starship is planned to be fully reusable and will be
    the largest rocket ever on its debut, scheduled for the early 2020s. [26][27]

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