SpaceX

Employees:

2002 - None<

2005 - 160

2008 - 500

2010 - 1,100

2012 - 1,800

2013 - 3,000

2014 - 3,800+

2002-2006

2006-2010

Total: $100M - Musk

Funding

2010-2012

2012-2014

Total: $200M; $100M - Musk

$100M - Private Investors

Total: $1B; $100M - Musk

$100M - Private Investors

$300-400M - Private Contracts

$400-500M - NASA Contracts

Upcoming: $500M - NASA long-term contracts

Falcon 1 (developed 2002-2006; flown 2006-2009)

Falcon 9v1.0 (developed 2005-2010; flown 2010-2013

Falcon 9v1.1 (developed 2010-2013; flown 2013-current)

Dragon Capsule

Reusable Rocket Program

Falcon 9 Heavy Configuration (Under Development)

Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT) / Falcon Heavy, Super Heavy (X, XX)

-Small, reusable

-Roughly 1000lbs into orbit

-Testbed for all later rockets

-Cost = $7.5M

-Same design as Falcon 9, utilizing the 9-engine clusters and heavy configuration

-Raptor engines = 1M lbf each

-Diameter of 100ft

-Medium lift, partly reusable

-20k lbs into orbit

-9 Merlin 1C engines for total of 837k lbf takeoff

-Cost = $56.5M

-100 people + supplies = 100 tons

-Early flights = less people & more supplies

-Several cargo missions before colonists

-First colonists arrival = 2025 - 2030

-Colony: >10 - 80,000 people

-Program designed to develop technology to land the primary stage of the rocket for reuse

-Possibility of program helping to reduce launch cost up to 10 times of current cost

-Primary cause for success of SpaceX as a business

-Can land up to 7,300lbs on earth from orbit

-Solar arrays can produce up to 4kw

-Planned Mission to Mars (Red Dragon)

-Mission expected: 2020 - 2022

-First Heavy Configuration

-First demo planned by 2015

-3 side-by-side Falcon 9v1.1 main stages for a total of 27 Merlin 1D engines

-Total 4.185Million lbf thrust at takeoff

-Predicted cost = $100M

-60% larger and more powerful than 9v1.0

-29k lbs into orbit

-150:1 thrust-to-weight ratio, highest ratio in rocket history

-9 Merlin1D engines,each with 155k lbf, for a total of 1.4million lbf

-Original Cost = $55M

-Current Cost = $61M

Grasshopper

THIS IS STILL A MEDIUM LIFT ROCKET!

5 flights: 3 used Merlin 1A (76k lbf)

2 used Merlin 1C (93k lbf)

WHAT WILL COME NEXT?!?!?

Controversies

-A $100M investment from Google might have a link to a possible contract of up to $1B for Google's communication satellite network after they parted with OneWeb, as Google plans to bring their services world-wide through Skybox satellites.

Failed, Flops, Disasters

-Falcon 5: A spacecraft design using 5 engines, canceled in favor of the larger Falcon 9

Facilities:

Redmond, WA

Competition

Hawthorne, CA

Founding

Headquarters

Elon Musk

Goals:

Hawthorne, CA

-Improve reliability to space.

-First sample return mission to Mars.

-Exploration and colonization of Mars.

Southern NM

McGregor, TX

Kennedy Space Center

(leased part from NASA)

Brownsville, TX

-Falcon 9 Air: In December 2011, SpaceX signed a contract with Stratolaunch to develop an air-launched, multi-staged rocket.

However, in Nov 2012, Stratolaunch decided to partner with Orbital Sciences Corperation, ending the Falcon Air

SpaceX

-Daniel Tyree

Space Exploration Technologies Inc.

Headquarters: Hawthorne, CA

Founder: Elon Musk

Founded: June, 2002