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This is a timeline of SpaceX, which attempts to describe important events in the history of the company.

Sample questions

The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:

• What are some notable events in the history of spaceflight preluding the creation of SpaceX?
  • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Prelude".
  • You will see mostly events related to private spaceflight, as well as other historical significant events.
• What are some significant events describing the life of SpaceX founder Elon Musk?
  • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Elon Musk biography".
  • You will see mostly events preluding the creation of SpaceX, with some mentioning other companies launched by Musk.
  • For some notable comments by Musk, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Notable comment".
• Who are some notable people working or having worked at SpaceX?
  • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Team".
• What are the several tests, mostly rocket launches, performed by SpaceX?
  • For failed tests, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission (Failed test)".
  • You will see events describing failed operations generally located earlier than successful attempts on the timeline, which indicates progress toward successful rocket launches.
  • For successful tests, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission (test)".
• What are the multiple missions conducted by SpaceX thoughout the years?
  • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission".
  • For communications satellite deliveries, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission (communications satellite delivery)" or "Milestone mission (communications satellite delivery)".
  • For the multiple resupply missions toward the International Space Station, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission (ISS resupply)".
  • For milestone missions, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Milestone mission".
• What are the several funding rounds SpaceX has had over the years, and how has the valuation of the company grown accordingly?
  • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Financial (funding)".
• What rocket launch sites have been used by SpaceX?
  • Look for the column entitled "Rocket launch location (applicable for mission and test)".
  • You will see detailed locations, starting with early launches at Omelek Island, and following with launch sites in Florida (Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Kennedy Space Center), California (Vandenberg Air Force Base), and Texas (SpaceX South Texas Launch Site).
• What are the several facilities operated by SpaceX, includings offices, industrial and launch sites?
  • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Facility".
  • You will mostly see locations in Texas and California.
• What are the several booster landing locations used by SpaceX?
  • Look for the column entitled "Booster landing location (applicable for mission and test)".
  • You will read "No attempt" on applicable rows describing missions and tests for those with no attemt to land the booster.
• What are some important contracts awarded to SpaceX by major organizations?
  • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Contract".
  • You will see mostly contracts awarded by NASA, but also other organizations, like the United States Air Force and the Federal Communications Commission.
• What are some notable events describing competition in commercial spaceflight?
  • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Competition".
  • You will see a number of private enterprises, and read names like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, among others.

Numerical and visual data

Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of October 28, 2021.

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Google trends

The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for SpaceX (Aerospace company) and Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla Motors), from January 2004 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.^[1]

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Google Ngram Viewer

The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data comparing "SpaceX", "Elon Musk","Blue Origin", and "Jeff Bezos" search strings (case-insensitive), from 2002 to 2019.^[2]

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Wikipedia views

The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article SpaceX, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to March 2021. A data gap on desktop observed from October 2014 to June 2015 is the result of Wikipedia Views failure to retrieve data.^[3]

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The comparative chart below shows pageviews on desktop of the English Wikipedia articles Falcon 9, Starlink, and Dragon 2, from July 2015 to March 2021.^[4]

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Big picture

Summary by technology

Summary by year

Full timeline

Year	Month, date and time	Event type	Details	Rocket launch location (applicable for mission and test)	Booster landing location (when applicable)
1958	July 29	Prelude	The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is founded.[15]
1961	December 12	Prelude (private spaceflight)	OSCAR 1 is launched as the first amateur radio satellite, aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket.[16][17][18]
1962	August 31	Prelude (private spaceflight)	United States President John F. Kennedy signs the Communications Satellite Act of 1962, which provides the regulatory framework for private companies in the United States to own and operate their own satellites.[19][20]
1971	June 28	Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk is born in Pretoria, South Africa, to Canadian-born model and dietitian Maye Musk (née Haldeman), and electromechanical engineer Errol Musk. Elon’s grandparents Joshua and Wayne Haldeman were adventurous pilots who spent years exploring in search for the lost city in the Kalahari desert. Elon’s grandfather was the first person to fly from Africa to Australia.[21][22]			120px|thumb|Elon Musk
1975		Prelude (private spaceflight)	OTRAG from Germany becomes the first company to attempt private development and manufacture of space propulsion systems.[23]
1982	September 9	Prelude (private spaceflight)	Conestoga 1 rocket by Space Services Inc. becomes the first privately funded rocket to reach space.[24][25][26]
1984	October 30	Prelude (private spaceflight)	Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984[27][28][29]
1988		Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk graduates from Pretoria Boys High School.[30]			thumb|center|150px|Pretoria Boys High School in South Africa
1989	March 29	Prelude (private spaceflight)	Starfire rocket, by Space Services Inc., launches carrying NASA experiments. This flight becomes the first federally licensed commercial launch in the United States.[31]
1989		Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk moves to Canada and enrolls at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.[22]
1990	April 5	Prelude (private spaceflight)	Orbital Sciences Corporation launches the Pegasus vehicle,[32] becoming the first private company to develop an orbital launch system.[33][34][35]
1991		Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk is transferred to the University of Pennsylvania.[22]
1995	June 10	Prelude (private spaceflight)	International Launch Services is formed as a private spaceflight partnership between Lockheed Martin (LM), Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center and Energia (corporation).[36]
1995		Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk moves to California and co-founds (with his brother Kimbal) Zip2, a web software company.[22]
1999		Elon Musk biography	Zip2 is acquired by Compaq for US$340 million.[22]
1999	November	Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk founds X.com, an online bank.[22]
2000	September 8	Prelude (private spaceflight)	American internet entrepreneur Jeff Bezos founds Blue Origin as an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company.[37][38]
2000	October	Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk is replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com, which would be renamed PayPal in 2001.[39]
2001		Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk conceptualizes "Mars Oasis", a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse containing seeds with dehydrated gel on Mars to grow plants on Martian soil, "so this would be the furthest that life's ever traveled"[40] in an attempt to regain public interest in space exploration and increase the budget of NASA.[41][42]
2001		Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk travels to Moscow with aerospace supplies fixer Jim Cantrell, and Adeo Ressi (Musk's best friend from college), to buy refurbished ICBMs (Dnepr) that could send payloads into space.[43]			[[FileTdx launch.jpg|thumb|center|120px|Dnepr rocket]]
2002	May 6	Early development	Elon Musk launches SpaceX[44], with original base established in El Segundo, California.[45] Musk founds the company paying US$100 million of his own money.[22]
2002	May	Team	American rocket engineer Tom Mueller joins SpaceX as a founding employee.[46]
2002		Team	American engineer Gwynne Shotwell joins SpaceX as vice president of business development, also being given a seat on the SpaceX board of directors.[47]			thumb|center|120px|Gwynne Shotwell
2002	December	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$12.1 million from Founders Fund in Series A funding round, reaching a valuation of US$18.8 million.[48]
2003	December 3	Engineering	Elon Musk announces plan to build a more powerful 3.7 meter diameter launch vehicle named "Falcon 5" that would be capable of hauling 4.2 tons to low earth orbit and 1.25 tons to geosynchronous transfer orbit. Falcon 5 launches would be priced at US$12 million.[49]			thumb|center|170px|Early Falcon 5 design
2004	May 17	Competition	A successful rocket launch to outer space is completed by the Civilian Space eXploration Team (CSXT), a team of around 30 civilians interested in private spaceflight. CSXT becomes the first amateur organization to send a rocket into space.[50][51]
2004	September 27	Competition	Virgin Galactic is founded as a spaceflight company by British business magnate Richard Branson.[52]
2004	December 22	Background (policy)	Unted States President George W. Bush signs the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, which provides a basic legal framework for commercial human spaceflight.[53]
2005	March	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$22 million in Series B funding round, reaching a valuation of US$70.5 million.[48]
2005	November 25	Mission (failed test)	The first Falcon 1 launch attempt at Omelek fails being scrubbed after a ground-supply liquid oxygen vent valve allows the small LOX supply to boil off.[54]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island		[[FileSpaceX Falcon vertical on the launch pad.jpg| thumb|center|150px|The first Falcon 1 at Vandenberg AFB. This vehicle would eventually be launched from Kwajalein.]]
2005	December 19	Mission (failed test)	A second Falcon 1 launch attempt is scheduled for this date, but is delayed by high winds. Then, the first stage fuel tank buckles during fuel draining when the fuel pressurization system suffers a controller failure. The damaged first stage is shipped back to Los Angeles for repair. The second flight vehicle's first stage is shipped to Omelek in its place.[54]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island		[[FileRTS Kwajalein.gif|thumb|center|150px|Kwajalein infrastructure and RTS headquarters. Click to enlarge]]
2006	January 18	Program launch	NASA launches its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services to coordinate the delivery of crew and cargo to the International Space Station by private companies.[55]			thumb|center|150px|Logo used for the COTS program
2006	February 9	Mission (failed test)	SpaceX tries launch again. A hot-fire test is completed at the Omelek pad with the new first stage, but a second stage propellant leak is discovered during the testing process, thwarting the attempt. The company ships the second stage to Los Angeles, replacing it with the second flight vehicle's second stage.[54]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island
2006	March 24 (22:30:00)	Mission (failed test)	Falcon 1 fails in its inaugural launch attempt from Omelek Island in Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, after liftoff. The two-stage rocket rises from its pad and ascends for about 25 seconds before an internal fire causes an engine shutdown, after which the vehicle rolls and falls toward the ocean.[54][56]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island	No attempt
2006	July 12	Competition	Genesis I, an experimental inflatable space habitat developed and owned by Bigelow Aerospace, is successfully launched aboard Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket. Genesis I becomes the first inflatable habitat module to reach orbit.[57]
2006	August 18	Contract	SpaceX announces it has been selected by NASA to demonstrate delivery and return of cargo to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services competition.[58]
2006	September	Contract	SpaceX wins one of two NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services contracts, a US$278 million award for three flight demonstrations by SpaceX of its to-be-developed 7 ton "Dragon" spacecraft on Falcon 9 launch vehicles. The launches would demonstrate Dragon's ability to haul 3.1 tons of cargo to the International Space Station and to return cargo to Earth.[49]
2006	November 27	Team	American aerospace engineer John Insprucker agrees a full-time contract at SpaceX to oversee the development of the Falcon 9.[59]
2007	March 15	Mission (test) (Merlin)	SpaceX performs a brief, successful static test ignition of the Falcon 1 first stage Merlin engine.[54]
2007	March 21 (01:10:00)	Mission (failed test)	Falcon 1 demo flight 2 is launched from Kwajalein site in Omelek Island, failing to reach orbit, and being the second Falcon 1 launch failure in two attempts.[54][56]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island	No attempt
2007	March	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$31.5 million in Series C funding round, reaching a valuation of US$316.5 million.[48]
2007		Facility	SpaceX moves from its El Segundo, California headquarters into a new, huge facility in Hawthorne, with the purpose to build a new rocket factory that could handle its larger Falcon 9 rockets.[60]			thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Headquarters, Hawthorne, California
2008	June 25	Mission (test)	The third Falcon 1 rocket performs a Merlin 1C static test at Omelek.[54]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island		thumb|center|150px|Merlin 1C under construction at SpaceX
2008	August 3 (03:34:00)	Failed mission (Communications satellite delivery)	The third SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket launches, failing shortly after lifting off. United States Air Force Trailblazer satellite, CubeSat nanosatellite PRESat and NASA's NanoSail-D are lost. This is the third Falcon 1 failure in three attempts.[54]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island	No attempt
2008	August	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$20.4 million from Founders Fund, Threshold, and Rothenberg Ventures, in Series D, reaching a valuation of US$544.5 million.[48]
2008	September 28 (23:15:00)	Milestone mission	Falcon 1 Flight 4 is successfully conducted. SpaceX achieves the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit. The rocket carries the 165 kg payload mass simulator Ratsat.[61][44][54]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island	No attempt
2008	December	Contract	NASA awards SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract for US$1.6 billion.[62][63]
2008	December 30	Infrastructure	The first Falcon 9 vehicle is integrated at Cape Canaveral.[64]
2009	March 10	Mission (test) (SpaceX Merlin)	SpaceX announces successful testing of the Merlin Vacuum engine. A variant of the 1C engine, Merlin Vacuum features a larger exhaust section and a significantly larger expansion nozzle to maximize the engine's efficiency in the vacuum of space.[65]			120px|Merlin 1C Vacuum engine at Hawthorne factory in 2008|SpaceX Merlin 1C Vacuum engine built at the company's Hawthorne, California facility.
2009	May	Recognition	NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine remarks that thanks to NASA's investments into SpaceX, the United States has 70% of the commercial launch market, a major improvement since 2012 when there were no commercial launches from the country.[66]
2009	June	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$47.3 million from Scott Banister, DFJ Growth, Threshold, and Elon Musk in Series E funding round, reaching a valuation of US$796.4 million.[48]
2009	June	Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk joins Twitter, where he becomes a notable figure.[67][68]
2009	July 14 (03:36:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 1 Flight 5 becomes the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to deliver a commercial satellite to Earth orbit. The rocket launches with RazakSat for Malaysia’s Astronautic Technology Sdn Bhd (ATSB).[63][44][56]	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|Inside Mission Control for Flight 5 of the Falcon1 rocket
2010	June 4 (18:45:00)	Mission (test)	Mission N° F9-01.[69]. Falcon 9 innaugural test flight from Cape Canaveral is conducted. The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit meets 100% of mission objectives on the first flight.[63][44][45] The company makes its inaugural test flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida.[45][56][70][71]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2010	October	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$50.6 million from Founders Fund, DFJ Growth, Threshold, Valor Equity Partners, and Musket Research Associates, in Series F funding round, reaching a valuation of US$1 billion.[48]
2010	December 8 (15:43:00)	Mission (test)	Mission N° F9-02.[72] SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1. SpaceX tests its Falcon 9 and a fully functioning Dragon capsule combination in a launch from Cape Canaveral. The test flight is the first under a NASA contract called COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services. The rocket returns, with SpaceX becoming the first privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.[61][63][44][45][73][45][74]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|COTS-1 Dragon After Return from Orbit
2011	January 31	Facility	Elon Musk announces new SpaceX offices in Chantilly, Virginia.[75]
2011	December	Contract	Stratolaunch Systems announces that it would contract with SpaceX to develop an air-launched, multiple-stage launch vehicle, as a derivative of Falcon 9 technology, called the Falcon 9 Air.[76]
2011		Program launch	SpaceX announces Grasshopper program to develop reusable rockets.[44]			thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Grasshopper
2012	May 22 (07:44:38)	Milestone mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-03[77] (SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2) is conducted. Dragon reaches the International Space Station. SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a spacecraft to the ISS (Falcon 9 Flight 3). The launch is the company's second demonstration test flight for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program.[78][61][63][44][45][45][73][45]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|Dragon approaching ISS on 25 May.
2012	June	Infrastructure	SpaceX starts purchasing a number of real estate properties in Cameron County, Texas, where SpaceX South Texas Launch Site would be established.[79]			thumb|center|120px
2012	October 8, 00:34:07 UTC	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-04[80] is conducted. Falcon 9 launches Dragon on Commercial Resupply Services SpaceX CRS-1 mission to the International Space Station, bringing 1,000 lbs of food and cargo to the astronauts on board.[81][45][82]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|The Dragon CRS-1 is seen approaching the ISS.
2013	February	Team	Bulgarian aeronautical engineer Margarita Marinova joins SpaceX as vehicle systems and propulsion engineer.[83]			thumb|center|100px|Margarita Marinova
2013	March 1, 15:10:13 UTC	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-05.[84] The second SpaceX mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is launched from Cape Canaveral.[85] SpaceX CRS-2 becomes the fourth flight for SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft.	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|The Dragon spacecraft being berthed to Harmony on March 3, 2013
2013	March	Mission (test)	SpaceX completes the first 24-storey test flight of a newly developed rocket, the Grasshopper. Meant to be a prototype for a reusable rocket into space, it safely returns to Earth, landing upright.[45]
2013	September 29 (16:00:13)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-06.[86] SpaceX successfully launches debut Falcon 9 v1.1, carrying an array of payloads including Canadian CASSIOPE technology demonstration satellite.[87]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Uncontrolled landing on the ocean	[[FileLaunch of Falcon 9 carrying CASSIOPE (130929-F-ET475-012).jpg|thumb|center|170px|The launch of the first Falcon 9 v1.1 from SLC-4, Vandenberg AFB]]
2013	December	Contract	NASA selects SpaceX to lease a historic launch pad for the company's commercial rockets. The agreement allows the spaceflight company to lease the historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.[88][89][90][91][92][93]			thumb|center|150px|Aerial view of Launch Complex 39, showing the launch pads 39B (top) and 39A (bottom)
2013	December 3, 22:41:00 UTC	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit when Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket launches the SES-8 commercial communications satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission is SpaceX's first commercial satellite launch into a geostationary transfer orbit.[61][94]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SES-8 communications satellite.
2014	January 6 (22:06:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-08.[95] SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 launches carrying Thai commercial telecommunications satellite Thaicom 6 placing it into geosynchronous transfer orbit.[96]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2014	April 18 (19:25:22)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-09.[97] SpaceX CRS-3 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches aboard Falcon 9 toward the International Space Station for resupply. Payload includes High Definition Earth Viewing cameras[98], the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) device[99], and the Vegetable Production System, among other instruments.[100] The rocket first stage lands on barge in ocean, but is destroyed by heavy seas.[44]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Controlled landing on the ocean
2014	May	Team	Canadian aerospace engineer Andrew Rader joins SpaceX as mission manager.[101]			thumb|center|100px|Andrew Rader
2014	May–July	Background (private spaceflight)	NASA's International Cometary Explorer (ISEE-3), a defunct spacecraft, is successfully contacted and controlled by a private initiative known as the ISEE-3 Reboot Project. This is the first time a private group manages to command a spacecraft in deep space, though their plans to change the probe's orbit are abandoned weeks later when its thrusters fail to respond properly.[102][103]
2014	July 14 (15:15:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-10.[104] SpaceX conducts its Falcon 9 flight 10 mission, lofting a constellation of six ORBCOMM OG2 satellites to orbit.[105]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Controlled landing on the ocean
2014	August 4	Facility	The state of Texas and SpaceX announce agreement to build a spaceport at Boca Chica Beach, near Brownsville, Texas.[106]
2014	August 5 (08:00:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-11.[107] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 to deliver Hong Kong geostationary communications satellite AsiaSat 8 to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.[108]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2014	September 7 (05:00:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-13.[109] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 with AsiaSat 6 satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit.[110][111]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt	thumb|right|110px|Launch of Falcon 9 carrying ASIASAT 6
2014	September	Contract	NASA awards SpaceX a US$2.6 billion contract to fly American astronauts, and announces that SpaceX and Boeing will be the two companies developing spacecraft to send astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s crew capsule is called the Dragon V2.[63][45]
2014	September 21 (05:52:03)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-12.[112] SpaceX Dragon C106 spacecraft is first launched aboard Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying fourth cargo delivery flight (SpaceX CRS-4) to the International Space Station.[113] It would splash down in October, being successfully retrieved.	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Uncontrolled landing on the ocean	thumb|center|150px|CRS-4 Dragon approaching ISS on 23 September 2014
2014	September 22	Facility	SpaceX conducts a groundbreaking ceremony on the new South Texas Launch Site.[114]			thumb|center|150px
2014	September 22	Notable comment	Elon Musk indicates that "the first person to go to another planet could launch from the Boca Chica launch site" (SpaceX South Texas Launch Site)[115]			thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Boca Chica launch site
2014	October 23	Background (private spacecraft)	The Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) is launched by European space systems contractor LuxSpace. This is the first commercial payload sent to fly by the Moon.[116]
2015	January 10 (09:47:10)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-14.[117] SpaceX CRS-5 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches aboard Falcon 9 v1.1, carrying a total of 577 kilograms of scientific hardware within the Dragon capsule, plus 494-kilogram Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) experiment flying in the unpressurised Trunk section of the spacecraft.[118] SpaceX begins a series of first stage landing attempts of its Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous spaceport drone ship.[63] The rocket crashes and burns.[45]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Failed landing at original Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|CRS-5 Dragon on approach to ISS
2015	January	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$1 billion from a number of investors including Founders Fund, Google, and Fidelity Investments, in Series G funding round, reaching a valuation of US$10.1 billion.[48]
2015	February 11	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-15.[119] SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches the Deep Space Climate Observatory DSCOVR spacecraft.[120]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Controlled landing in the ocean
2015	March 2 (03:50:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-16.[121] SpaceX Falcon 9 launches two communications satellites, the Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS-3A to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).[122]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2015	April 14 (20:10:41)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-18.[123] SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft on the sixth commercial resupply services mission (SpaceX CRS-6) to the International Space Station.[124]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Failed landing at original Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|SpaceX CRS-6 Patch
2015	April 27 (23:03:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-17. Falcon 9 launches Turkmenistan's first satellite (TürkmenÄlem 52°E / MonacoSAT), into orbit.[125][126]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2015	May 6, 13:00 UTC	Mission (test)	Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test is conducted. SpaceX launches a rocket escape system for its manned Dragon spaceships, a critical system designed to save astronauts in a launch emergency.[63][127]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida		thumb|center|150px|DragonFly launches at the start of the flight
2015	June 28 (14:21:11)	Failed mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-20.[128] A Falcon9 rocket explodes during takeoff.[45] The SpaceX CRS-7 launch vehicle disintegrates a few minutes after liftoff.[129]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida		thumb|center|150px|SpaceX CRS-7 Patch
2015	October	Facility	SpaceX begins soil preparation at SpaceX South Texas Launch Site.[130]
2015	November 23	Competition	Human-rated suborbital rocket New Shepard is successfuly launched by Blue Origin into space, landing back vertically. This makes it the first VTVL rocket to land on Earth from space.[131]
2015	November 25	Background (policy)	United States President Barack Obama signs the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which allows US citizens and industries to "engage in the commercial exploration and exploitation of space resources" including water and minerals.[132]
2015	December 22 (01:29:00)	Milestone mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-21.[133] Falcon 9 flight 20 launches carrying 11 Orbcomm-OG2 communications satellites to Earth orbit. In this mission SpaceX achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on land.[61][63][44][45][134][73]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	thumb|center|150px|Falcon 9 first stage engines after its flight
2016	January 17 (18:42:18)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-19.[135] SpaceX launches the Jason-3 satellite for NASA, which plans to measure the height of the ocean surface, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The first stage lands at a good speed, but one of the legs wouldn't latch, causing it to fall over and subsequently explode.[134]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Failed landing at Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
2016	January 22	Competition	Blue Origin's VTVL rocket becomes the first VTVL to reach space twice, after launching and landing the same New Shepard booster flown in November.[136]
2016	March 4 (23:35:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-22.[137] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches into orbit carrying the SES-9 communications satellite.[138]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Failed landing at Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2016	April 8 (20:43:31)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-23.[139] (SpaceX CRS-8). The company achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on an ocean platform (Falcon 9 Flight 23).[61][63][44]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|120px|SpaceX CRS-8 Patch
2016	May 6 (05:21:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-24.[140] Falcon 9 Full Thrust launches carrying Japanese satellite JCSAT-14 toward geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). The mission records another successful landing of a rocket stage at sea when the rocket booster returns to a drone ship off the Florida coast.[141]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|JCSAT-14 Launch
2016	May 27 (21:39:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-25.[142] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches placing the Thaicom 8 commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.[143]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2016	June 15 (14:29:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 flight 26 launches both ABS's ABS-2A and Eutelsat's Eutelsat 117 West B (formerly Satmex 9) to geostationary transfer orbit.[144][145]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2016	July 7	Facility	SpaceX signs a five-year lease for almost 8,000 square feet of office space in Irvine, California, and starts advertising engineering positions for this office.[146]
2016	July 18 (04:45:29)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-27.[147] SpaceX CRS-9 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches aboard Falcon 9 Full Thrust carrying a Dragon capsule toward the International Space Station for resupply.[148]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	thumb|center|150px
2016	August 14 (05:26:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-28.[149] SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches JCSAT-16 commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit, before landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.[150]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|JCSAT-16 first stage landing
2016	September 1 (13:07)	Failed mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-29, scheduled for launch on September 3, fails as the Falcon 9 explodes on the pad, just before a static-fire test.[151] Israeli Earth communications satellite Amos-6 is destroyed.[152]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida		thumb|center|150px|SLC-40 after Falcon 9 fire
2017	January 14 (17:54:39)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-30.[153] SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully delivers 10 Iridium NEXT satellites to low-Earth orbit for Iridium Communications, an American company that operates mobile voice and data satellite communications.[154]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|120px
2017	February 19 ( 14:39:00)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-32.[155] SpaceX CRS-10 Dragon Commercial Resupply Service mission launches aboard Falcon 9 carrying nearly 5,500 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station.[156]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	thumb|center|150px|Dragon approaching the ISS on 23 February 2017
2017	March 2	Contract	SpaceX files with the Federal Communications Commission plans to field a constellation of an additional 7,518 V-band satellites in non-geosynchronous orbits to provide communications services.[157]
2017	March 16 (06:00:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-31.[158] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivers heavyweight EchoStar 23 communications satellite into a high-altitude orbit, a mission near the limit of capability.[159]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	No attempt
2017	March 30 (22:27:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-33.[160] SpaceX reuses a rocket for the first time ever. The Falcon 9 launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the SES-10 communications satellite.[161][73][162][63]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px
2017	May 1 (11:15:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-34.[163] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches classified satellite for the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).[164]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
2017	May 15 (23:21:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-35.[165] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite.[166]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	No attempt
2017	June 3 (21:07:38)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-36.[167] SpaceX CRS-11 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches as the first reflight of a commercial cargo spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon C106.[168][63] The refurbished ship flies to the International Space Station, carrying onboard NASA telescope Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer. It is the first time the same unmanned spacecraft returns to the station.[44][73]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	thumb|center|150px|C106 in flight in June 2017, during CRS-11
2017	June 23 (19:10:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-37.[169] SpaceX Falcon 9 launches into orbit BulgariaSat-1, the first geostationary communications satellite in Bulgaria’s history.[170]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	[[FileBulgariaSat-1 Mission (35496027525).jpg|thumb|center|150px|BulgariaSat-1 launches on a Falcon 9]]
2017	June 25 (20:25:14)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-38.[171] Falcon 9 rocket launches and successfully deploys ten Iridium Communications satellites.[172][173][174]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
2017	July 5 (23:38:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-39.[175] Falcon 9 launches from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, carrying the Intelsat 35e satellite to geostationary transfer orbit.[176]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|Intelsat 35e Mission
2017	August 14 (16:31:37)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-41.[177] SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 carrying the Dragon vehicle in its twelfth flight (SpaceX CRS-12) to the International Space Station.[178]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	thumb|center|150px|The CRS-12 Dragon spacecraft grappled by Canadarm2
2017	August 24 (18:51:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-40.[179] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying the Formosat-5 Earth observation satellite for Taiwan’s National Space Organization.[180]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|Artist's concept of Formosat-5 in orbit
2017	September	Technology introduction	New rocket booster, the BFR rocket is announced, along with updated plans for Mars colonization.[44]
2017	September 7 (14:00:00)	Mission (spacecraft launch)	Mission N° F9-42.[181] SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launches the Boeing Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5) payload from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.[182][183][184]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
2017	September 29	Vehicle design update	At the 68th annual meeting of the International Astronautical Congress, SpaceX unveils the updated vehicle design of a big Falcon rocket. Musk says, "we are searching for the right name, but the code name, at least, is BFR."[185]
2017	October 9 (12:37:01)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-44,[186] also called Iridium-3 Mission[187], is conducted. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 next-generation Iridium communications satellites (Third flight).[188][189][190]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|Iridium-3 Mission
2017	October 11 (22:53:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-43.[191] SpaceX successfully launches the EchoStar 105/SES-11 payload from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The satellite is deployed approximately 36 minutes after liftoff into its targeted orbit.[192][193][194]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2017	October 30 (19:34:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-45.[195] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral and successfully delivers South Korean satellite Koreasat 5A to its designated orbit, marking the the company’s 16th successful mission of the year — twice the number of successful missions in 2016.[196][197][198][56]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2017	November	Program launch	SpaceX plans launch of the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V last left for the moon in 1973.[44]
2017	November	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$452.3 million from a number of investors including ACE & Company, Ecosystem Ventures, and Matthew Pritzker Company, in Series H funding round, reaching a valuation of US$21.3 billion.[48]
2017	December 15 (15:36:09)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-47.[199] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the 13th operational Dragon cargo spacecraft (SpaceX CRS-13) to the International Space Station on the company’s fourth mission under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services Program in the year.[200]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	thumb|center|170px|CRS-13 Dragon attached to the ISS
2017	December 23 (01:27:34)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-48.[201] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 next-generation Iridium Communications satellites (fourth flight).[56]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Controlled landing on the ocean
2018	January 8 (01:00:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-46.[202] SpaceX launches classified spacecraft Zuma for the United States government.[203]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
2018	January 21	Competition	American aerospace company Rocket Lab officially becomes the second private company to make it into orbit on private funds, and the first private company to launch cargo into orbit from a private launch site, after successful launch of its Electron rocket from Mahia Launch Center, located on the north island of New Zealand on the Mahia Peninsula.[204]	Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1
2018	January 31 (21:25:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-49.[205] Falcon 9 rocket launches Luxembourg’s first military spacecraft, the SES-16/GovSat 1 geostationary communications satellite, into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). GovSat-1, also known as SES-16, is the first satellite to be launched for LuxGovSat, a partnership between the government of Luxembourg and commercial satellite operator SES S.A.[206]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Controlled landing on the ocean
2018	February 6, 20:45 UTC	Milestone mission	Mission N° FH-01[207] (Falcon Heavy test flight) is conducted. SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon Heavy rocket carrying aboard a Tesla Roadster and “Starman”, a dummy in a SpaceX spacesuit. The Roadster is destined into a billion-year orbit around Mars.[208]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Failed B3 B1033 booster landing at Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship. Successful B2 B1023.2 and B2 B1025.2 booster landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zones 1 and 2), Florida	thumb|center|150px
2018	February 22 (14:17:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-50.[209] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Spain’s Paz radar satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The launch also carries the first demonstration satellites for SpaceX’s own satellite internet constellation, the SpaceX Starlink.[210]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|PAZ mission launch
2018	March 6 (05:33:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-51.[211] SpaceX launches its 50th Falcon 9 rocket, successfully orbiting a city bus-sized satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat.[212][213]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2018	March 15	Contract	The United States Air Force announces a deal with SpaceX to fly three of the newest generation of Global Positioning System satellites into space, at an average cost of US$97 million per flight.[214][215][216]
2018	March 30 (14:13:51)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-52. Falcon 9 launches carrying 10 Iridium satellites and a satellite dispenser.[217]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	No attempt
2018	April 2 (20:30:38)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-53.[218] The SpaceX CRS-14 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches with a reused Falcon 9 Full Thrust.[219]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|SpaceX CRS-14 arriving at the ISS on 4 April 2018
2018	April 18 (22:51:30)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-54.[220] SpaceX launches NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into outer space in a mission aimed at surveying nearly the entire sky for exoplanets.[221][222][223][224]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2018	April 21	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$214 million from Fidelity Investments, Otter Rock Capital, The K Fund, 7percent Ventures, Hemisphere Ventures, TH Capital, ACE Capital, StraightPath Venture Partners, Aeon Family of Funds, and Team in Residence, in Series I funding round, reaching a valuation of US$24.7 billion.[48]
2018	May 11 (20:14:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-55.[225] SpaceX launches updated version of Falcon 9 rocket carrying Bangladeshi Bangabandhu-1 Satellite into geostationary orbit.[226][227][228][229]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2018	May 22 (19:47:58)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-56.[230] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket carrying seven satellites intended to replace earlier spacecraft, including five Iridium NEXT telephone relay stations and a pair of Earth-observing satellites for NASA.[231][232][233][234]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	No attempt
2018	June 4 (04:45:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-57. Falcon 9 launches carrying the geostationary communications satellite SES-12, operated by SES S.A.[235]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2018	June 29 (09:42:42)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-58.[236] SpaceX reuses Dragon Cargo Ship and launches aboard a Falcon 9 Full Thrust[237] its 15th cargo mission (SpaceX CRS-15) to the International Space Station for NASA, sending up nearly 3 tons of supplies, including coffee, berries and ice cream, mice and the first orbiting robot with artificial intelligence.[238][239][240][241][242][243][244]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|Dragon spacecraft on approach to ISS
2018	July 22 (05:50:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-59.[245] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket deploying the Telstar 19V communications satellite for Canada’s Telesat.[246][247][248][249]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	[[FileTelstar 19 Vantage Mission (29700000688).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Telstar 19V Launches aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5]]
2018	July 25 (11:39:26)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-60. Falcon 9 launches carrying 10 Iridium NEXT satellites, plus a satellite dispenser.[250]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
2018	August 7 (05:18:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-61. Falcon 9 launches carrying Telkom 4 (Merah Putih) satellite to geostationary transfer orbit.[251]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2018	September 10 (04:45:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-62. Falcon 9 launches carrying into orbit the Telstar 18V communication satellite, from the Telstar series of the Canadian satellite communications company Telesat.[252]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2018	September 13	Contract	SpaceX reports having signed its first customer to fly on the company’s new rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR).[253][254][255][256] Days later SpaceX reveals that the customer is Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online clothing retailer.[257][258][259][260]
2018	October 8 (02:21:28)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-63.[261] Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, successfully delivering Argentina's SAOCOM-1A Earth-observation satellite to orbit. The rocket lands for the first time back at its California launch site.[262][263][264][265]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Vandenberg Air Force Base (SpaceX Landing Zone 4), California	thumb|center|150px|Mockup of the SAOCOM satellite
2018	November 15	Permission grant	The U.S. Federal Communications Commission votes to let SpaceX launch more than 7,000 internet-beaming satellites, all planned to begin launch in 2019. SpaceX separately sought approval for 7,518 satellites operating even closer to the ground, saying that these would boost capacity and reduce latency in heavily populated areas.[266][267][268]
2018	November 15 (20:46:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-64.[269]SpaceX launches and lands another used Falcon 9 rocket, carrying Es'hail-2 communications satellite built by Mitsubishi and owned by the nation of Qatar.[270][271][272][273]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|Launch of Falcon 9 flight 63 carrying Es'hail-2
2018	December 3 (18:34:05)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-65. Falcon 9 launches carrying 64 small satellites.[274][275]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4), California	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
2018	December 5 (18:16:16)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-66.[276] SpaceX CRS-16 Commercial Resupply Service mission is launched aboard a Falcon 9 Full Thrust, carrying to the International Space Station more than 2 tons of crew supplies, science investigations and equipment for NASA Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation mission.[277]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	thumb|center|150px|The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft
2018	December 23 (13:51:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-67.[278] Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying the first advanced, next-generation "GPS III" satellite, built by Lockheed Martin.[279][280][281][282]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2019	January 11	Team	SpaceX announces reduction of its workforce by about 10 percent of the company's more than 6,000 employees, explaining that the layoffs are in pursuit of becoming a “leaner company”, and citing "extraordinarily difficult challenges ahead."[283][284][285][286]
2019	January 11 (15:31:33)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-68.[287] SpaceX launches its first Falcon 9 rocket of the year, sending up 10 satellites for long-time customer Iridium Communications.[288][289][290][291]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
2019	January	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$273.2 million from a large number of investors including Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, and Scott Banister, in Series J funding round, reaching a valuation of US$28 billion.[48]
2019	February 19	Contract	SpaceX secures a US$297 million contract from the United States Air Force to launch another three national security missions, all slated to launch no earlier than FY 2021.[292]
2019	February 22 (01:45:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-70.[293] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, carrying an Indonesian communications satellite into orbit, and a small Israeli spacecraft attempting the first privately-funded, non-superpower moon landing in April.[294][295][296][297][298]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2019	March 2 (07:49:03)	Mission (ISS technology demonstration)	Mission N° F9-69.[299] Crew Dragon Demo-1 launches as the first orbital test of the Dragon 2 spacecraft, in an uncrewed mission.[300] On March 3, the Crew Dragon docks with the International Space Station, becoming the first American spacecraft to autonomously dock with the orbiting laboratory.[13]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|120px
2019	March 29	Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk proposes an unusual approach to conducting a robotic survey of the Solar System’s major outer planets, asteroids, and comets, requiring a stripped-down Starship with a minimalist payload of Starlink satellites modified for interplanetary cruises and high-resolution cameras.[301]
2019	April 3	Mission (test) (Starship)	A test version of SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft, the Starship, successfully ignites its onboard engine for the first time.[302][303][304]	SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Texas		thumb|center|170px|Artist's concept of an earlier version of Starship upper stage following stage separation
2019	April 5	Mission (test) (Starship)	In a nighttime test, SpaceX Starship (Starhopper) lifts off and hits tether limits reaching the end of it. SpaceX performs the test with the tether serving as a safety line on the vehicle.[305][306]	SpaceX South Texas Launch Site
2019	April 11 (22:35:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° FH-02.[307] Falcon Heavy launches carrying into orbit the Arabsat-6A satellite, operated by the Arab Satellite Communications Organization.[308]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	B5 B1055 booster landing at Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship, B5 B1052.1 booster landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LZ-1), B5 B1053.1 booster landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LZ-2)	[[FileArabsat-6A Mission (40628438523).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Launch of Arabsat-6A on Falcon Heavy]]
2019	April 12	Contract	NASA announces a launch services contract with SpaceX for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) space probe. The launch is scheduled for June 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket. The total cost to launch DART is about US$69 million.[309][310][311]	Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
2019	April 20	Mission (failed test)	A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule explodes during tests being carried out on the ground.[312]	Kennedy Space Center, Florida
2019	April 30	Contract	The United States Federal Communications Commission grants a request by SpaceX to begin launching spacecraft for the company’s Starlink broadband network to a lower orbit than originally planned. The regulatory commission approves SpaceX’s proposal to fly more than 1,500 of the Starlink satellites at an altitude of 550 kilometers, instead of the 1,150-kilometer orbit originally planned.[313][314]
2019	May 4, 06:48:58 UTC	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-71.[315] SpaceX CRS-17 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches aboard a Falcon 9 toward the International Space Station for resupply, carrying NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3.[316]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Ocean (Autonomous spaceport drone ship)	thumb|center|150px|The SpaceX CRS-17 Dragon approaching to the ISS for RMS capture.
2019	May 9	Competition	Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Origin's vision for space and also plans for a moon lander known as "Blue Moon".[317]
2019	May 24	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$500 million from Baillie Gifford, FoundersX Ventures, and Gigafund in Series K funding round, reaching a valuation of US$32.3 billion.[48]
2019	May 24, 02:30:00 UTC	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-72.[318] SpaceX launches a batch of 60 Starlink internet communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.[319][320][321]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Ocean (Autonomous spaceport drone ship)	thumb|center|150px|60 Starlink satellites stacked together before deployment
2019	May 31	Financial (valuation)	SpaceX valuation rises to US$33.3 billion, surpassing in worth to Tesla, Inc.[322][323]
2019	May	Elon Musk biography	Elon Musk floats the idea of using single-stage Starship to travel up to 10,000 kilometers on Earth-to-Earth flights at speeds approaching Mach 20 (25,000 km/h) with an acceptable payload saying it "dramatically improves cost, complexity & ease of operations."[324]
2019	June 12 (14:17:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-73.[325] Falcon 9 launches carrying the RADARSAT Constellation, a three-spacecraft fleet of Earth observation satellites operated by the Canadian Space Agency.[326][327]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California	Vandenberg Air Force Base (SpaceX Landing Zone 4), California
2019	June 25 (06:30:00)	Mission (Communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° FH-03.[328] NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission launches aboard Falcon Heavy carrying 24 satellites for the United States Department of Defense (Space Test Program) and other customers. Elon Musk calls this mission SpaceX’s “most difficult launch ever.”[329][330][331]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zones 1 and 2), Florida
2019	June 27	Financial (funding)	SpaceX raises US$314 million from a number of investors including Vanedge Capital and Space Angels, in Series L funding round, reaching a valuation of US$34.1 billion.[48]
2019	July 25 (22:01:56)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-74.[332] SpaceX CRS-18 ressupply mission launches toward the International Space Station, for the first time reusing a Dragon Capsule for a third flight.[333]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	[[FileCRS-18 Mission (48380511427).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Falcon 9 Block 5 landing during CRS-18 Mission]]
2019	July 25	Mission (test) (Starship)	SpaceX Starship (Starhopper) launches for the first time. The rocket makes its first free-flying test launch at SpaceX's Boca Chica proving ground in South Texas.[334][335][336]	SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Texas		thumb|center|120px|SpaceX Starhopper
2019	August 6 (23:23:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-75.[337] SpaceX Falcon 9 launches carrying Israeli commercial communication satellite AMOS-17.[338]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	No attempt
2019	August 27 (22:00:00)	Mission (test) (Starship)	SpaceX Starhopper, the first prototype for its Mars-colonizing Starship vehicle, is put to final test flight, rising several hundred feet off the ground at the SpaceX South Texas Launch Site in Boca Chica Village, Texas. Starhopper reaches a hover altitude and then flies sideways to touch town at a separate nearby landing pad. The entire flight lasts just 57 seconds.[339]	SpaceX South Texas Launch Site	SpaceX South Texas Launch Site nearby landing pad
2019	October 3	Financial (funding)	SpaceX receives a US$3 million grant from NASA.[48]
2019	November 11 (14:56:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-76.[340] Falcon 9 launches carrying a payload of 60 Starlink satellites.[341]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2019	December 5 (17:29:24)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-77.[342] SpaceX CRS-19 Commercial Resupply Service mission reuses Dragon C106 (first launched on September 21, 2014) aboard Falcon 9, delivering cargo toward the International Space Station for resupply.[343]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px
2019	December 17 (00:10:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-78.[344] Falcon 9 launches carrying heavyweight JCSAT-18 and Kacific1 satellites into orbit.[345]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2020	January 7 (02:19:21)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-79.[346] Falcon 9 launches carrying sixty more satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink global internet network.[347]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2020	January 19 (15:30:00)	Mission (launch)	Mission N° F9-80[348] (Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test) is conducted. SpaceX simulates an in-flight emergency to verify if the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft has the capability to catapult itself away from a failing Falcon 9 rocket. Following the ejection of Crew Dragon C205, Falcon 9 booster B1046 is destroyed by aerodynamic forces, as intended.[349]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	No attempt	thumb|center|150px|Booster explosion during SpaceX's in flight abort
2020	January 29 (14:06:00)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-81.[350] Falcon 9 launches carrying fourth batch of Starlink satellites, deployed in a circular 290km orbit. A total of 60 satellites are delivered.[351][352][353]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2020	February 4	Contract	SpaceX is selected by NASA to provide launch services for the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.[354]			thumb|center|150px|An artist's concept of NASA's PACE spacecraft in orbit.
2020	February 11	Team	SpaceX announces that aerospace engineer William H. Gerstenmaier has joined the company as a consultant.[355]			thumb|center|120px|William H. Gerstenmaier
2020	February 17 (15:05:55)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-82.[356] Falcon 9 launches carrying to orbit a total of 60 Starlink satellites for new megaconstellation. The mission misses rocket landing.[357][358]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Failed landing at Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2020	February 28	Contract	SpaceX is awarded launch contract for NASA’s 2022 mission to explore the mineral-rich asteroid 16 Psyche. The contract includes launch services and other mission-related costs valued at US$117 million, an amount remarkably low for a mission of this scale.[359]
2020	February 28	Mission (failed test) (Starship)	SpaceX Starship SN1 prototype explodes during pressure test.[360][361]
2020	March 7 (04:50:31)	Mission (ISS resupply)	Mission N° F9-83.[362] SpaceX conducts last launch of phase 1 of the CRS contract (SpaceX CRS-20), carrying Bartolomeo, an ESA platform for hosting external payloads onto International Space Station.[363][364][365]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida	thumb|center|150px|C112 approaches the ISS
2020	March	Financial (funding)	SpaceX receives US$221.2 million in funding in a Series M funding round, reaching a valuation of US$36.1 billion.[48]
2020	March 18 (12:16:39)	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. Towards the end for the first stage burn, the booster suffers premature shut down of an engine, the first of a Merlin 1D variant and first since the CRS-1 mission in October 2012. However, the payload still manages to reach the targeted orbit.[366] The mission misses rocket landing, considered to be the second Starlink launch booster landing failure in a row. It is later revealed that the cause was a residual cleaning fluid trapped inside a sensor.[367]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|SpaceX testing Merlin 1D Engine
2020	April 22 (19:30:00)	Milestone mark achievement	Mission N° F9-85.[368] Falcon 9 launches carrying 60 Starlink satellites. The SpaceX’s Starlink network surpasses 400-satellite mark after successful launch.[369]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2020	April 26	Mission (test) (Starship)	SpaceX Starship SN4 becomes the first full-scale prototype to pass and survive a cryogenic proof test, in which the ship’s normal liquid oxygen and methane is replaced with similarly frigid but non-explosive liquid nitrogen.[370]
2020	April 30	Competition	Blue Origin's Blue Moon Lander is selected by NASA as a winner of the Human Lander Systems award under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2), besting competitive companies, SpaceX and Dynetics.[371][372]
2020	May 1	Contract	SpaceX is selected by NASA to develop a lunar optimized starship to transport crew between lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program.[373][374][375]			thumb|center|150px
2020	May 1	Team safety	SpaceX's chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell announces that SpaceX has put measures aimed at ensuring the safety of its astronauts who would pilot incoming missions and for the company's broader workforce, against infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also asks space enthusiasts to stay home to watch footage of the company's first-ever crewed mission take off from Florida.[376]
2020	May	Notable comment	Elon Musk says: “SpaceX has been working this entire time because we have a national security exemption. We’ve had 8,000 people working full time through the whole pandemic. We’ve had zero serious illnesses or deaths despite working in L.A., Washington, Texas and Florida.”[68][377]			thumb|center|150px
2020	May 23	Notable comment	Elon Musk tweets: "We need to accelerate progress towards fully reusable rockets. Cost per ton to orbit needs to improve by >1000% from where Falcon is today for there to be a self-sustaining city on Mars", implying it is presently too costly for self-sustaining metropolis on Mars.[378]			thumb|center|150px|Elon Musk in Mission Control at SpaceX
2020	May 30 (19:22:00)	Milestone mission (ISS crew transport)	Mission N° F9-87.[379] Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches as a crewed flight test, transporting astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken toward the International Space Station.[380] This mission marks the beginning of a SpaceX human spaceflight era[381], and the first American crewed mission in years since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program.[382]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship	thumb|center|150px|Behnken (left) and Hurley (right)
2020	June 3, 9:25 p.m. EDT	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX eighth Starlink mission is conducted. Falcon 9 carrying 60 Starlink satellites into orgbit.[383][384]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2020	June 4, 01:25:33 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Mission N° F9-86[385] (Starlink-7 mission). Falcon 9 launches carrying a batch of 60 Starlink broadband satellites, including one with a deployable sunshield meant to test out a new way to reduce the brightness of future satellites.[386][387][388]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
2020	June 13, 9:21 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX launches its ninth Starlink mission, with Falcon 9 carrying 58 Starlink satellites and three of Planet's SkySats. This mission marked SpaceX’s first SmallSat Rideshare Program launch."[389]
2020	June 30, 20:10 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 launches, carrying the United States Space Force's GPS III Space Vehicle 03 mission, an advanced GPS satellite delivery.[390]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
2020	July 20	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 launches carrying South Korean military/government communications satellite ANASIS-II into orbit.[391]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2020	August 2	Mission	SpaceX Crew Dragon splashes down successfully in the Gulf of Mexico, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley returning after being in space since May 30, when the mission N° F9-87 launched as the first crewed U.S. mission to orbit on a private spacecraft.[392]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida		thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Demo-2 landing
2020	August 4, 4:56 p.m. CDT	Mission (test)	Starship serial number 5 (SN5) lifts-off from its launch mount and conducts a fly test to a height of 150 meters before successfully touching down on a near-by landing pad. SN5 is powered by a single Raptor engine. This test flight is considered to be an important step in development of SpaceX’s fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars.[393] Starship SN5 prototype successfully conducts a 150-meter test flight, marking a major milestone in SpaceX's efforts to build the largest spacecraft ever created, which is aimed to eventually get humans to Mars.[394]	SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Texas		thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Starship SN5 during a flight test, August 2020.
2020	August 7, 5:12 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX launches its tenth Starlink mission, with Falcon 9 delivering 57 Starlink satellites and 2 satellites from BlackSky, a Spaceflight customer.[395]
2020	August 18, 10:31 a.m. EDT	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX launched its eleventh Starlink mission, with Falcon 9 delivering 58 Starlink satellites and three of Planet’s SkySats.[396]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2020	August 30, 23:19 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 Block 5 launches carrying Argentine earth-observation satellite SAOCOM 1B, plus two secondary payloads for PlanetiQ and Tyvak.[397][398][399]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida		thumb|center|150px|SAOCOM 1B
2020	September 3, 12:46 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX launches its twelfth Starlink mission, with Falcon 9 delivering 60 Starlink satellites to orbit.[400]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2020	September 3	Mission (test)	SpaceX launches Starship SN6 prototype, in a brief uncrewed test flight of a rocket designed for eventual trips to the moon and Mars.[401]	SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Texas
2020	September 25	Contract	The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center announces an agreement with SpaceX to recover the first stage booster and, for the first time on a National Security Space Launch (NSSL) mission, launch previously flown boosters on future GPS missions. SpaceX is proud to leverage its flight-proven capabilities toward national security space launch missions."[402]
2020	October 6, 11:29 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX delivers its 13th batch of Starlink satellites, with Falcon 9 carrying 60 satellites to orbit.[403][404]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida
2020	October 18, 12:25 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 launches carrying 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.[405]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida
2020	October 20, 6:21 UTC	Mission (test)	SpaceX conducts the first static fire, with Starship SN8 igniting all three of its Raptors’ preburners. Two hours later, with no break in between, the steel rocket prototype fully ignites all three Raptor engines for the first time.[406]
2020	October 24, 11:31 UTC	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying 60 Starlink satellites to orbit.[407]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2020	November 5, 6:24 p.m. EST	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 launches the GPS III Space Vehicle 04, completing its second mission of the year for the United States Space Force.[408]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2020	November 10	Contract	SpaceX is designated the first commercial system in history, as NASA certifies Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon human spaceflight system for crew missions to and from the International Space Station.[409]
2020	November 16	Mission (test)	SpaceX Crew-1 launches on Crew Dragon spacecraft as the first crewed flight. It is considered not an operational but a test flight. It is the first operational mission to the International Space Station in the Commercial Crew Program.[410]			thumb|center|120px|SpaceX Crew-1 logo
2020	November 21	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying into orbit the oceanography satellite Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, an advanced ocean-mapping satellite developed by NASA, the European Space Agency, and weather agencies.[411][412]	Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California		thumb|center|150px|Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
2020	November 24, 9:13 p.m. EDT	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	Falcon 9 rocket launches for a seventh time, carrying 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit.[413][414]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida	Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
2020	December 6, 16:17:08 UTC[415]	Mission (ISS resupply)	SpaceX CRS-21 launches as a Commercial Resupply Service mission, carrying 2,972 kg of cargo to the International Space Station.[416][417][418][419]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida		thumb|center|120px|SpaceX CRS-21 Patch
2020	December 9	Mission (test)	Starship SN8 lifts off from the launch pad and successfully ascends, transitions propellant, and performs its landing flip maneuver with precise flap control to reach its landing point.[420]	SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Texas
2020	December 12	Facility	The Government of Indonesia invites SpaceX to assess the possibility of setting up a rocket launch site in the country.[421][422]
2020	December 13	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX Launches mission deploying an audio satellite for digital radio broadcaster Sirius XM Holdings Inc.[423]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
2020	December 19	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 launches carrying a classified spacecraft payload for the United States National Reconnaissance Office.[424][425]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2021	January 8	Mission (communications satellite delivery)	SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 launches carrying Turkish communications satellite Türksat 5A.[426]	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2021	February 4	Controversy	SpaceX is challenged regarding Starlink when the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) urges the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to "actively, and aggressively, and thoughtfully vet" the subsidy applications of SpaceX and other broadband providers. SpaceX had provisionally won $886 million for a commitment to provide service to 642,925 locations in 35 states as part of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF).[427]
2021	April 23	Mission	SpaceX Crew-2 launches as the second operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight of the Commercial Crew Program. The mission uses the same capsule as Crew Dragon Demo-2 (Endeavour) and launches on the same Falcon 9 booster as SpaceX Crew-1. The Crew Dragon Endeavour (C206), docks to the International Docking Adapter (IDA) on the Harmony module at its forward port. This mission is the first with astronauts on board with a previously used booster rocket.[428][429][430]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida		thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Crew-2 logo
2021	September 16	Mission	Human spaceflight mission Inspiration4 launches the Crew Dragon Resilience atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, placing the Dragon capsule into low Earth orbit, and successfully completing the first orbital spaceflight with only private citizens aboard, as part of a charitable effort on behalf of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.[431][432]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida
2021	October	Mission	SpaceX Crew-3 mission is launched. It is the fourth operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight of the Commercial Crew Program. This is the maiden flight of Crew Dragon Endurance.[433]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida		thumb|center|150px|Crew Dragon Endurance docked to the ISS during Crew-3
2021	October	Mission	SpaceX Axiom Space-1 mission is planned to launch around this time, with Tom Cruise on board in order to shoot an actual movie in space.[434][435]
2021	December 21	Mission	SpaceX CRS-24 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches toward the International Space Station. Using a Cargo Dragon, this is the fourth flight for SpaceX under NASA's CRS Phase 2 contract awarded in January 2016.[436] The mission carries four Redwire payloads focused on advanced materials manufacturing and plant science experiments in low-Earth orbit.[437]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39A), Florida		SpaceX CRS-24 mission patch
2022	April 27	Mission	SpaceX Crew-4 mission launches towards the International Space Station, with three American (NASA) astronauts and one European (ESA) astronaut onboard. Thisn is the Crew Dragon's fourth NASA Commercial Crew operational flight, and its seventh overall crewed orbital flight.[438]	Kennedy Space Center (LC-39A), Florida		thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Crew-4 mission patch
2022	September	Mission	SpaceX Crew-5 mission is planned for launch around this time.
2023	April	Mission	SpaceX Crew-6 mission is planned for launch around this time.
2023	September	Mission	SpaceX Crew-7 mission is planned for launch around this time.[439]
2024		Mission	According to Elon Musk, SpaceX's 1st crewed Mars mission could launch as early as this year.[440]

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