Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation, telecommunications and artificial intelligence services, headquartered at Starbase, Texas. Elon Musk founded it in 2002 to reduce spaceflight costs and improve the reliability of access to space. Its space segment develops and flies the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Starship launch vehicles and the Dragon spacecraft, and it conducts more orbital launches each year than any other launch provider. Its connectivity segment operates the Starlink satellite constellation. Its largest customers include NASA, the United States Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office, and the company is credited with advances in reusable launch vehicles and human spaceflight.
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is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation
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SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk
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conducts more orbital launches annually than any other launch provider
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is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation
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provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services
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develops and flies the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles
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Falcon 1 was a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle that was operated from 2006 to 2009 by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer.
Falcon 9 v1.0 (Wikipedia)
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The Falcon 9 v1.0 was the first member of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle family, designed and manufactured by SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.
Falcon 9 v1.1 (Wikipedia)
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The Falcon 9 rocket was fully designed, manufactured, and operated by SpaceX.
Falcon 9 Full Thrust (Wikipedia)
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Falcon 9 Full Thrust (also known as Falcon 9 v1.2) is a partially reusable, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.
Falcon 9 Block 5 (Wikipedia)
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Falcon 9 Block 5 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.
SpaceX Dragon 1 (Wikipedia)
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SpaceX Dragon 1 is a class of fourteen partially reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company.
SpaceX Dragon 2 (Wikipedia)
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Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by the American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions.
SpaceX Starship (Wikipedia)
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Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX.
SpaceX Starship (spacecraft) (Wikipedia)
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Starship (or colloquially the Ship) is a spacecraft and second stage under development by American aerospace company SpaceX.
SpaceX Super Heavy (Wikipedia)
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Super Heavy is the reusable first stage of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second stage.
Starship HLS (Wikipedia)
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It is being designed and built by SpaceX under the Human Landing System contract to NASA
Wikipedia: Falcon 9
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Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.
Falcon Heavy, Wikipedia
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Falcon Heavy is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle with partial reusability that can carry cargo into Earth orbit and beyond. It is designed, manufactured and launched by American aerospace company SpaceX.
Falcon X (Wikipedia)
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Falcon X was a proposed spaceflight launch system that uses rockets designed and manufactured by SpaceX.
ITS launch vehicle (Wikipedia)
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very large 12-meter (39 ft)-diameter orbital launch vehicle planned to be developed by SpaceX.
Falcon 9 prototypes (Wikipedia)
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The project was privately funded by SpaceX, with no funds provided by any government until later on.
SpaceX Dragon (Wikipedia)
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Dragon is a family of spacecraft developed and produced by the American publicly traded space transportation company SpaceX.
SpaceX Red Dragon (Wikipedia)
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for using an uncrewed modified SpaceX Dragon 2 for low-cost Mars lander missions
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