SPACEX
founder: Elon Musk
year: 2002
residence: Hawthorne, Kalifornie,USA
Private US company moving in the aero space industry.
Úspěchy:
- October 28, 2008 during the fourth test flight, the company successfully launched a space rocket Falcon 1 which was placed into orbit 165 kg heavy satellite. The company thus became the first ever private entity, which from a purely private sources developed a liquid rocket successfully it reached Earth orbit.
- June 4, 2010 Falcon 9 rocket transported after taking off from Florida's Cape Canaveral maquette Dragon spacecraft into orbit at an altitude of 250 km.
- December 8, 2010 was carried out first (unmanned) test flight Dragon spacecraft when it's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape conveyed the same orbit (Dragon from the Falcon 9 rocket detached after 10 minutes), where Dragon 3 hours maneuvered and eventually returned back atmosphere and successfully landed on the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
- May 22, 2012 was from Cape Canaveral rocket Falcon 9 Dragon boat plotted to have teamed up with the International Space Station (ISS), whose crew was carrying 521 kg of cargo such as food supplies, clothing and computers. It is the first case of connecting private spaceship to the ISS, he talks so much about a new era of space exploration.
- May 31, 2012 mission ended successfully. Dragon module landed on schedule in the Pacific Ocean and shipped from the ISS to Earth 660 kg of cargo.
- October 7, 2012 to the ISS was re-launched rocket Falcon 9 Dragon spacecraft with cargo.
- December 3, 2013 with rocket Falcon transported into Earth orbit in the amount of 36000 km telecommunications satellite SES-8 belonging to a Luxembourg company SES. The price for this service is $ 55 million.
- April 20, 2014 the cargo ship Dragon plotted rocket Falcon 9 joined the ISS to 2300 kg of cargo. The flight was carried out after several postponements. [12] Part of the test flight was landing First Instance launchers at sea level, degree landing, to save him failed.
- December 22, 2015 successfully launched a modernized version of the Falcon 9 (1.2), which orbit the Earth earned 11 satellites. Part of the flight was landing First Instance launchers back on the ground over the airport. The flight was successful, SpaceX became the first company that has managed to return the first stage of the rocket on the ground.
- April 8, 2016 successfully launched in the Mission CRS-8 boat Falcon 9 (1.2). The first stage after separation successfully returned to a floating platform Of Course I Still Love You vAtlantiku. The second stage, Dragon boat, then successfully flew to the space station ISS, which brought the inflatable module BEAM. Source: Wikipedia