The greatest landmarks in SpaceX history

SpaceX has always been at the forefront of new space rocket technologies, placing important milestones in the history of the space industry.

When billionaire Elon Musk founded SpaceX private aerospace company in 2002, no one thought it could change the entire space industry today. Even SpaceX's new breakthrough made NASA admire its admiration.

Just recently, SpaceX successfully tested the missile landing using the Falcon 9 after launching it to the lower level of Earth's orbit. This is the great turning point of the space industry, because it promises to reduce the cost of flying into space.

SpaceX of Elon Musk has also developed a path over 13 years. Although its research and projects have not been as good as NASA, with huge US government funding, SpaceX has also contributed to changing the cosmology industry.

SpaceX has become the fastest growing private space company in the world

SpaceX's number of employees now exceeds 4000 people.

In 2002, billionaire Elon Musk founded SpaceX, hoping to revolutionize the space industry in the future. The company had a rather slow start, when by the end of 2002 the company had only 14 employees. Then the number of employees increased to 160 in October 2005.

And now, SpaceX's number of employees has exceeded 4000, including many of the world's leading scientists and engineers. Therefore, SpaceX became the fastest-growing private space company in the world.

Is one of the very few space rocket manufacturing companies

SpaceX is one of the few private companies that research and manufacture rockets.

Most other private space companies only provide services, with space-acquired rocket missiles from NASA or other manufacturers. But SpaceX is one of the very few private companies that research their own technology and build their own cosmic names.

The Falcon 9 reusable rocket is also due to SpaceX's own research and fabrication of most internal components and components. Most importantly, the Merlin 1D rocket engine, produced entirely by American technology and materials. That is a great pride of SpaceX as well as America.

SpaceX has the cheapest rocket on the market

SpaceX can help bring US air satellites at low prices.

It is not only a competition but also a breakthrough in the production of space missiles. In 2014, Elon Musk announced SpaceX could help bring US air satellites to orbit for only $ 90 million. While other competitors like the United Launch Alliance cost up to $ 460 million a launch.

The first private company to successfully launch missiles into space

SpaceX was the first private company to successfully launch missiles into Earth orbit.

It was a very important milestone for SpaceX, when in 2008 SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 1 missile on Earth orbit. This is the first time in history that a private aerospace company has built and successfully launched liquid fuel missiles into space. That was the time when the world had to know the name SpaceX and Elon Musk.

Continue to research and improve missile technology

SpaceX has studied and improved the next generation missile, the Falcon 9 rocket.

After 4 years, in 2012 SpaceX completed its next generation rocket, the Falcon 9. Rocket SpaceX also successfully built the Dragon spacecraft that could help deliver supplies to the station. ISS universe.

That event made SpaceX continue to place an important milestone in the history of the space industry, when it became the first private company to be able to transport goods by spacecraft to the ISS station.

SpaceX created a rocket that could still work despite one of the engines having problems

SpaceX built rockets still active despite one of the engines having trouble.

SpaceX designed the Falcon 9 rocket with 9 Merlin 1D engines, which also explains the name of the rocket. Because of this, even though one of the engines had a problem and was unable to function between departure, the rocket still had the ability to complete the task.

Other space missiles such as Orbital ATK's Antares or Atlas V missiles of the United Launch Alliance are equipped with only one or two large engines. Which is therefore in the process of launching if one of the engines stops working could lead to disaster.

In 2012 and 2013, SpaceX created something unprecedented in the world

Grasshopper is a small rocket and laid the first foundation for Falcon 9's success.

Before 2013, SpaceX set a goal of changing the tourism industry and transporting goods into space with an unprecedented technology in the world. The company has begun to research and successfully build the first reusable rocket, called Grasshopper.

It was the first time the world witnessed a space rocket capable of landing back to the ground after it launched into the air. Grasshopper is a small rocket and laid the first foundation for the success of the current Falcon 9.

Elon Musk sued the US government, prohibiting private space companies from signing contracts with the US Air Force

Previously, the US Air Force still signed a contract with Launch Alliance United, a US government rocket manufacturer whose duties were to bring US Air satellites into orbit. However, after SpaceX achieved certain success, the US Air Force began to pay attention to Elon Musk's company and offered to cooperate.

Elon Musk.

The US government immediately banned this cooperation because it thought private companies could be a threat to access to military systems. Billionaire Elon Musk was extremely tough against the US government's argument and even filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court. SpaceX finally had the right to bid for US Air Force contracts in 2015.

This is a commendable struggle effort by Elon Musk and SpaceX, paving the way for future private space companies to have the opportunity to develop with potential projects, not constrained by the Government.

SpaceX is leading a new era of the universe industry

Recently, SpaceX successfully landed the Falcon 9 reusable missile in one of its tests. This success was a huge effort after many of SpaceX's previous failures, in missile landing trials in January and April 2015.

SpaceX continues to name itself as the first private company in history to successfully land a space rocket, after launching Earth's orbit and bringing 11 Orbcomm satellites into orbit. The great stature of this success was not only successful in landing a re-used missile, which SpaceX and Blue Origin had done before, but that Falcon 9 was not a small rocket.

SpaceX continues to name itself as the first private company in history to successfully land a space rocket.

Falcon 9 is a large rocket, capable of carrying spacecraft to resupply cargo to the ISS space station. Make this rocket more practical in the future, not just stop testing.

A new chapter of the newly opened cosmic industry, an era in which we will be able to easily fly into space at a much lower cost than before. Tests in the universe will also be made easier and the mission to conquer Mars will become more and more practical.