Spacex: Spacex Space Launch Vehicles, Falcon 9, Dragon, Merlin, List of Falcon 1 Launches, Cots Demo Flight 1, Falcon 9 Flight
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ISBN10: 1156609682
ISBN13: 9781156609682
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781156609682
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: SpaceX space launch vehicles, Falcon 9, Dragon, Merlin, List of Falcon 1 launches, COTS Demo Flight 1, Falcon 9 Flight 1, Falcon 1 Flight 4, Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40, Falcon 5, Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4, COTS Demo Flight 2, Falcon 1e, Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit, Kestrel, Omelek Island, Draco, Raptor, COTS Demo Flight 3. Excerpt: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American space transport company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, both of which are built with a goal of being reusable launch vehicles. SpaceX is also developing the Dragon spacecraft to be carried to orbit by Falcon 9 launch vehicles. SpaceX designs, tests and fabricates the majority of their components in-house, including the Merlin, Kestrel, and Draco rocket engines. In December 2010, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft (a Dragon). Originally based in El Segundo, SpaceX now operates out of Hawthorne, California, USA. Falcon 1 prototype. The company's current headquarters, located in Hawthorne, California.SpaceX was founded in June 2002 by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk who had invested US$100 million of his own money by March 2006. On August 4, 2008, SpaceX accepted a further US$20 million investment from the Founders Fund. SpaceX has nearly doubled in size every year since it was founded in 2002. It grew from 160 employees in November 2005 to more than 500 by July 2008, to over 1100 in 2010. Musk believes the high prices of other space-launch services are driven in part by unnecessary bureaucracy. He has stated that one of his goals is to improve the cost and reliability of access to space, ultimately by a factor of ten. In January...