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This is a '''timeline of {{w|Spacex}}'''.
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This is a '''timeline of {{w|SpaceX}}''', which attempts to describe important events in the history of the company.
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== Sample questions ==
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The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:
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* What are some notable events in the {{w|history of spaceflight}} preluding the creation of SpaceX?
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** Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Prelude".
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** You will see mostly events related to {{w|private spaceflight}}, as well as other historical significant events.
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* What are some significant events describing the life of SpaceX founder Elon Musk?
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** Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Elon Musk biography".
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** You will see mostly events preluding the creation of SpaceX, with some mentioning other companies launched by Musk.
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** For some notable comments by Musk, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Notable comment".
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* Who are some notable people working or having worked at SpaceX?
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** Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Team".
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* What are the several tests, mostly rocket launches, performed by SpaceX?
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** For failed tests, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission (Failed test)".
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** You will see events describing failed operations generally located earlier than successful attempts on the timeline, which indicates progress toward successful rocket launches.
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** For successful tests, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission (test)".
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* What are the multiple missions conducted by SpaceX thoughout the years?
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** Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission".
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** For communications satellite deliveries, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery)" or "Milestone mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery)".
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** For the multiple resupply missions toward the {{w|International Space Station}}, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply)".
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** For milestone missions, sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Milestone mission".
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* What are the several funding rounds SpaceX has had over the years, and how has the valuation of the company grown accordingly?
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** Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Financial (funding)".
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* What [[w:Spaceport|rocket launch site]]s have been used by SpaceX?
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** Look for the column entitled "Rocket launch location (applicable for mission and test)".
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** You will see detailed locations, starting with early launches at {{w|Omelek Island}}, and following with launch sites in {{w|Florida}} ({{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}}, {{w|Kennedy Space Center}}), {{w|California}} ({{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}}), and {{w|Texas}} ({{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}}).
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* What are the several facilities operated by SpaceX, includings offices, industrial and launch sites?
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** Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Facility".
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** You will mostly see locations in {{w|Texas}} and {{w|California}}.
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* What are the several booster landing locations used by SpaceX?
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** Look for the column entitled "Booster landing location (applicable for mission and test)".
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** You will read "No attempt" on applicable rows describing missions and tests for those with no attemt to land the booster.
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* What are some important contracts awarded to SpaceX by major organizations?
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** Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Contract".
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** You will see mostly contracts awarded by {{w|NASA}}, but also other organizations, like the {{w|United States Air Force}} and the {{w|Federal Communications Commission}}.
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* What are some notable events describing competition in commercial spaceflight?
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** Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Competition".
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** You will see a number of private enterprises, and read names like {{w|Blue Origin}} and {{w|Virgin Galactic}}, among others.
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==Big picture==
 
==Big picture==
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! Time period !! Development summary !! More details
 
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| 2002–2007 || Early period || Early period of SpaceX, characterized by funding and testing.
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| 2008–2019 || [[w:Uncrewed spacecraft|Unmanned]] spaceflight period || SpaceX achieves its first commercial spaceflight mission in 2008, starting a period of several dozens of missions serving agencies all over the world.
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| 2020 onwards || {{w|Human spaceflight}} period || SpaceX begins its era of manned spaceflight after achieving its first crewed mission.
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=== Summary by technology ===
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| 2005 onwards || Falcon development || {{w|Falcon 1}} development period, starting with the first failed launch in 2005, to actual recovery and reuse of Falcon rockets.
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| 2010 onwards || [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon]] development || SpaceX Dragon is introduced in 2010, and becomes the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to be recovered successfully from orbit.<ref name="10 things to know about spacex">{{cite web|title=10 things to know about spacex|url=http://time.com/space-x-ten-things-to-know/|website=time.com|accessdate=4 March 2018}}</ref> SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch a payload into orbit and return it to Earth intact. {{w|Cape Canaveral}} becomes SpaceX's main launch site.
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| 2011 onwards || {{w|SpaceX reusable launch system development program}} || SpaceX launches this program with the purpose to build an orbital launch system that may be reused many times in a manner similar to the reusability of aircraft.
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| 2012 onwards || [[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship]] development || [[w:reusable launch vehicle|Fully reusable]] {{w|super heavy-lift launch vehicle}} Starship begins development in 2012. In 2014, SpaceX begins construction on its own spaceport in South Texas, which would serve as launch site of the Starship rockets.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Vance|first1=Ashlee|title=Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=_LFSBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA332&dq=%22in+2014+spacex%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNt-OlpsXYAhWBPpAKHQjWCBsQ6AEIOjAE#v=onepage&q=%22in%202014%20spacex%22&f=false|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref> 
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=== Summary by year ===
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| 2005 || SpaceX begins testing {{w|Falcon 1}}, its first real rocket design created with the goal of reusable space flight.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Reusable Rocket Revolution |url=http://streetfins.com/the-reusable-rocket-revolution/ |website=streetfins.com |accessdate=4 July 2020}}</ref>
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| 2006 || SpaceX wins its first {{w|NASA}} award for US$278 million to help develop {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket and [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon space capsule]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Don’t expect a space race between SpaceX and NASA. They need each other |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-nasa-20170301-story.html |website=latimes.com |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref>
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| 2007 || SpaceX moves to {{w|Hawthorne, California}}, to build a new rocket factory that could handle its larger Falcon 9 rockets.
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| 2008 || {{w|Falcon 1}} becomes the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit.
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| 2009 || SpaceX becomes the first privately funded company to put a satellite in Earth orbit.<ref name="Impey"/>
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| 2010 || SpaceX becomes the first commercial company to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit with its Dragon spacecraft.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX CRS-5 Mission Press Kit |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/SpaceX_NASA_CRS-5_PressKit.pdf |website=nasa.gov |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref>
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| 2011 || SpaceX begins the development of {{w|Falcon Heavy}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sommariva |first1=Andrea |title=The Political Economy of the Space Age: How Science and Technology Shape the Evolution of Human Society |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=rJ7YDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=%22in+2011+spacex%22&source=bl&ots=x3LnoPKwnQ&sig=ACfU3U2FeK94baH2HH5P_6MPMFs5xtoDhg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7j4Dd_bHqAhX-H7kGHQCTDPw4ChDoATAAegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=%22in%202011%20spacex%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 2012 || SpaceX becomes the first commercial company to dock with the {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref name="Impey">{{cite book |last1=Impey |first1=Chris |title=Beyond: Our Future in Space |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=DAedBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT107&lpg=PT107&dq=%22in+2009+spacex%22&source=bl&ots=8MVXwouswA&sig=ACfU3U0CNVdAC_lLD0F7TFHKtZrx-xB8tA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI7uf387HqAhVEI7kGHTIJAlMQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%202009%20spacex%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 2013 || SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit ({{w|SES-8}}).
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| 2014 || SpaceX reveals its {{w|Crew Dragon}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches Crew Dragon on demo mission to space station |url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-030219a-spacex-crew-dragon-dm1-launch.html |website=collectspace.com |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a probe beyond Earth orbit as well as the first to achieve landing of a first stage orbital capable rocket. 
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| 2016 || SpaceX achieves the first water landing of a first stage orbital capable rocket ({{w|Falcon 9}}).
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| 2017 || SpaceX achieves one of its great ambitions, the recovery and reuse of rockets, conducting the historic first reflight of an orbital class rocket.<ref name="other planets"/>
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| 2018 || SpaceX begins launching {{w|Falcon Heavy}}, the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two.<ref name="other planets">{{cite web |title=SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. |url=https://www.spacex.com/about |website=spacex.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft, a [[w:Starship (rocket)|Starship]] orbital prototype, begins initial tests with success.<ref name=trati20190312>{{cite web |last=Ralph|first=Eric |url=https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starhopper-static-tests/ |title=SpaceX begins static Starhopper tests as Raptor engine arrives on schedule |work=Teslarati |date=12 March 2019 |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref>
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| 2020 || SpaceX successfully achieves its first-ever crewed mission.
 
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| 1958 || July 29 || Prelude || The {{w|National Aeronautics and Space Administration}} (NASA) is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 |url=https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=729#:~:text=National%20Aeronautics%20and%20Space%20Act%20of%201958&text=Signed%20by%20President%20Dwight%20Eisenhower,and%20Space%20Administration%20(NASA). |website=archives.gov |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 1961 || December 12 || Prelude (private spaceflight) || {{w|OSCAR 1}} is launched as the first {{w|amateur radio satellite}}, aboard an American {{w|Thor-Agena}} rocket.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief History of Amateur Satellites |url=https://www.om3ktr.sk/druzice/history.html#:~:text=OSCAR%20I,Orbit%20372%20x%20211%20km. |website=om3ktr.sk |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=OSCAR-1 |url=http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/Bilsing.pdf |website=arrl.org |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Exciting Beginnings of Amateur Radio Satellites in the 1960s |url=http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/Hamsats/Hamsats1960s.html |website=spacetoday.org |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 1962 || August 31 || Prelude (private spaceflight) || United States President {{w|John F. Kennedy}} signs the {{w|Communications Satellite Act of 1962}}, which provides the regulatory framework for private companies in the United States to own and operate their own satellites.<ref>{{cite web |title=BILL SIGNING, H.R. 11040 PUBLIC LAW 87-624, COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE ACT OF 1962, 9:45AM |url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHP/1962/Month%2008/Day%2031/JFKWHP-1962-08-31-A |website=jfklibrary.org |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=John F. |title=John F. Kennedy: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=kbA3MUsJS-cC&pg=PA657&lpg=PA657&dq=1962+August+31+President+John+F.+Kennedy+signs+the+Communications+Satellite+Act&source=bl&ots=Ldk_lglJfg&sig=ACfU3U3YrcdZ8L_nq-jabWQZAaLPp3J20Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFwpKV3J3qAhWgILkGHaHvCJIQ6AEwB3oECA8QAQ#v=onepage&q=1962%20August%2031%20President%20John%20F.%20Kennedy%20signs%20the%20Communications%20Satellite%20Act&f=false}}</ref> || ||
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| 1971 || June 28 || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} is born in {{w|Pretoria}}, {{w|South Africa}}, to Canadian-born model and dietitian {{w|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 {{w|Kalahari desert}}. Elon’s grandfather was the first person to fly from Africa to Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Childhood of Elon Musk |url=http://eclecticuniverse.org/childhood-elon-musk-biography/ |website=eclecticuniverse.org |access-date=25 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="Elon Musk and SpaceX: A Case Study of Entrepreneuring as Emancipation">{{cite web |title=Elon Musk and SpaceX: A Case Study of Entrepreneuring as Emancipation |url=https://timreview.ca/article/1258 |website=timreview.ca |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Elon Musk 2015.jpg|120px|thumb|Elon Musk]]
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| 1975 || || Prelude (private spaceflight) || {{w|OTRAG}} from {{w|Germany}} becomes the first company to attempt private development and manufacture of space propulsion systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=Otrag |url=http://www.astronautix.com/o/otrag.html |website=astronautix.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 1982 || September 9 || Prelude (private spaceflight) || [[w:Conestoga (rocket)|Conestoga 1]] rocket by {{w|Space Services Inc.}} becomes the first privately funded rocket to reach space.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dubbs |first1=Chris |last2=Paat-Dahlstrom |first2=Emeline |title=Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=g-4agkc8_IAC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=1982+++Conestoga+1+rocket+by+Space+Services+Inc.+becomes+the+first+privately+funded+rocket+to+reach+space.&source=bl&ots=smXctGM8Zf&sig=ACfU3U0lJa7QeuTri4Nx8BPqjTHxF15x6A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiBwYTD353qAhViF7kGHZPOBTgQ6AEwC3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=1982%20%20%20Conestoga%201%20rocket%20by%20Space%20Services%20Inc.%20becomes%20the%20first%20privately%20funded%20rocket%20to%20reach%20space.&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=THE LAUNCH OF CONESTOGA 1 |url=https://www.celestis.com/about/conestoga-1/ |website=celestis.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sept. 9, 1982: 3-2-1 ... Liftoff! The First Private Rocket Launch |url=https://www.wired.com/2009/09/dayintech0909privaterocket/ |website=wired.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 1984 || October 30 || Prelude (private spaceflight) || {{w|Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984}}<ref>{{cite web |title=H.R. 3942 (98th): Commercial Space Launch Act |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/98/hr3942/text |website=govtrack.us |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=THE COMMERCIAL SPACE LAUNCH ACT OF 1984 |url=https://www.spacelegalissues.com/the-commercial-space-launch-act-of-1984/ |website=spacelegalissues.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Origins of the Commercial Space Industry |url=https://www.faa.gov/about/history/milestones/media/commercial_space_industry.pdf |website=faa.gov |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 1988 || || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} graduates from {{w|Pretoria Boys High School}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elon Musk Says “Pedo Guy” Was a Common Insult in His Youth. We Checked With His Schoolmates. |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006045204/https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/elon-musk-trial-pedo-guy-diver-lawsuit.html |website=web.archive.org |access-date=25 December 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:PBHS-facade.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Pretoria Boys High School in South Africa]]
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| 1989 || March 29 || Prelude (private spaceflight) || Starfire rocket, by {{w|Space Services Inc.}}, launches carrying NASA experiments. This flight becomes the first federally licensed commercial launch in the United States.<ref>{{cite book |title=Aeronautics and Space Report of the President |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=wHe401TbkC4C&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=1989+March+29+Starfire&source=bl&ots=oJegImTv33&sig=ACfU3U1uEm6UYWBu7EJtt4Eg0dGRblE0Mg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj61szYy6_qAhVWJLkGHfa7AWIQ6AEwDXoECAwQAQ#v=onepage&q=1989%20March%2029%20Starfire&f=false}}</ref> || ||
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| 1989 || || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} moves to {{w|Canada}} and enrolls at {{w|Queen's University at Kingston}}, {{w|Ontario}}.<ref name="Elon Musk and SpaceX: A Case Study of Entrepreneuring as Emancipation"/> || ||
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| 1990 || April 5 || Prelude (private spaceflight) || {{w|Orbital Sciences Corporation}} launches the [[w:Northrop Grumman Pegasus | Pegasus]] vehicle,<ref>Warren Frick (May 2, 2002). "[https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1129&context=space-congress-proceedings Pegasus - History of the First Successful Air-Paper Session III-C - Pegasus - History of the First Successful Air-Launched Space Vehicle]," 39th Space Congress Proceedings 2002, Paper Session III-C - P. Retrieved June 1, 2020.</ref> becoming the first private company to develop an orbital launch system.<ref name=Howell2020>Elizabeth Howell (May 26, 2020), [https://www.space.com/northrop-grumman-space-systems.html Northrop Grumman Space Systems: One of NASA's top contractors], Space.com, retrieved June 1, 2020. Quote: "Pegasus — a winged three-stage rocket designed to fly to low-Earth orbit — was the first privately developed space launch vehicle."</ref><ref name=Belfiore2012>Michael Belfiore (April 17, 2012), "[https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/g789/launching-spacecraft-from-airplanes-a-brief-history/ Launching Spacecraft From Airplanes: A Brief History]", ''Popular Mechanics''. Retrieved June 1, 2020</ref><ref name=Sci_Medals1991>National Science and Technology Medals Foundation, [https://www.nationalmedals.org/laureates/robert-r-lovell Robert R. Lovell, 1991, National Medal of Technology and Innovation]. Retrieved June 1, 2020.</ref> || ||
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| 1991 || || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} is transferred to the {{w|University of Pennsylvania}}.<ref name="Elon Musk and SpaceX: A Case Study of Entrepreneuring as Emancipation"/> || ||
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| 1995 || June 10 || Prelude (private spaceflight) || {{w|International Launch Services}} is formed as a private spaceflight partnership between Lockheed Martin (LM), {{w|Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center}} and {{w|Energia (corporation)}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=CREATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH SERVICES |url=https://www.ilslaunch.com/creation-of-international-launch-services/ |website=ilslaunch.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 1995 || || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} moves to {{w|California}} and co-founds (with his brother [[w:Kimbal Musk|Kimbal]]) {{w|Zip2}}, a web software company.<ref name="Elon Musk and SpaceX: A Case Study of Entrepreneuring as Emancipation"/> || ||
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| 1999 || || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Zip2}} is acquired by {{w|Compaq}} for US$340 million.<ref name="Elon Musk and SpaceX: A Case Study of Entrepreneuring as Emancipation"/> || ||
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| 1999 || November || Elon Musk biography || Elon Musk founds {{w|X.com}}, an online bank.<ref name="Elon Musk and SpaceX: A Case Study of Entrepreneuring as Emancipation"/> || ||
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| 2000 || September 8 || Prelude (private spaceflight) || American internet entrepreneur {{w|Jeff Bezos}} founds {{w|Blue Origin}} as an {{w|aerospace manufacturer}} and {{w|sub-orbital spaceflight}} services company.<ref>{{cite web |title=BLUE ORIGIN GOES STEP BY STEP FEROCIOUSLY INTO SPACE |url=https://www.rocketstem.org/2019/10/25/blue-origin-goes-step-by-step-ferociously-into-space/#:~:text=Blue%20Origin%20was%20mostly%20founded,where%20Amazon%20also%20is%20headquartered. |website=rocketstem.org |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Everything you need to know about Blue Origin |url=https://www.axios.com/blue-origin-jeff-bezos-space-factsheet-64d5c5bf-b12a-4285-a7ef-3ce8ca564109.html |website=axios.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || || 
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| 2000 || October || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} is replaced by {{w|Peter Thiel}} as CEO of {{w|X.com}}, which would be renamed {{w|PayPal}} in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |title=POWER PLAYERS Why Elon Musk says taking ‘vacations will kill you’ |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/02/why-elon-musk-says-taking-vacations-will-kill-you.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2001 || || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} conceptualizes "Mars Oasis", a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse containing seeds with dehydrated gel on Mars to grow plants on {{w|Martian soil}}, "so this would be the furthest that life's ever traveled"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://milesobrien.com/?p=3359|title=Miles O'Brien – Journalist}}</ref> in an attempt to regain public interest in space exploration and increase the {{w|budget of NASA}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3698|title=Elon Musk, Life to Mars Foundation|work=Mars Now, a weekly column|first=John Carter|last=McKnight|publisher=Space Frontier Foundation|date=25 September 2001}}</ref><ref name=spectrum>{{cite news|title=Risky Business|first=Elon|last=Musk|accessdate=4 December 2017|work=IEEE Spectrum|url=http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/risky-business}}</ref> || ||
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| 2001 ||  || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} travels to {{w|Moscow}} with aerospace supplies fixer {{w|Jim Cantrell}}, and {{w|Adeo Ressi}} (Musk's best friend from college), to buy refurbished ICBMs ([[w:Dnepr (rocket)|Dnepr]]) that could send payloads into space.<ref name=A&Ssmithsonian201201>{{cite news |url=http://www.airspacemag.com/space/is-spacex-changing-the-rocket-equation-132285884/?no-ist |title=Is SpaceX Changing the Rocket Equation? |author=Andrew Chaikin |work=Air & Space Smithsonian |accessdate=4 December 2017 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/641B56u8L?url=http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Visionary-Launchers-Employees.html?c=y&page=2 |archive-date=December 18, 2011|deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> || || || [[File:Tdx launch.jpg|thumb|center|120px|[[w:Dnepr (rocket)|Dnepr]] rocket]]
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| 2002 || May 6 || Early development || {{w|Elon Musk}} launches {{w|SpaceX}}<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings">{{cite web|title=Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings|url=https://newatlas.com/spacex-pictorial-launches-landings/51517/|website=newatlas.com|accessdate=8 December 2017}}</ref>, with original base established in {{w|El Segundo, California}}.<ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced">{{cite web|title=History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/2915630/history-of-spacex-10-milestones-and-hurdles-the-space-company-has-faced/|website=globalnews.ca|accessdate=8 December 2017}}</ref> Musk founds the company paying US$100 million of his own money.<ref name="Elon Musk and SpaceX: A Case Study of Entrepreneuring as Emancipation"/> || ||
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| 2002 || May || Team || American rocket engineer {{w|Tom Mueller}} joins SpaceX as a founding employee.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Mueller |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-mueller-2094513b/ |website=linkedin.com |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> || || 
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| 2002 || || Team || American engineer {{w|Gwynne Shotwell}} joins SpaceX as vice president of business development, also being given a seat on the SpaceX board of directors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gwynne Shotwell SpaceX |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBoHAChEcfY |website=youtube.com |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Gwynne Shotwell at 2018 Commercial Crew announcement.jpg|thumb|center|120px|Gwynne Shotwell]]
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| 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.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds">{{cite web |title=SpaceX Funding Rounds |url=https://craft.co/spacex/funding-rounds |website=craft.co |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2003 || December 3 || Engineering || {{w|Elon Musk}} announces plan to build a more powerful 3.7 meter diameter launch vehicle named "{{w|Falcon 5}}" that would be capable of hauling 4.2 tons to {{w|low earth orbit}} and 1.25 tons to {{w|geosynchronous transfer orbit}}. Falcon 5 launches would be priced at US$12 million.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.coms">{{cite web |title=Space Launch Report:  SpaceX Falcon 9 Data Sheet |url=http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon9.html |website=spacelaunchreport.com |access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:SpaceX falcon v.png|thumb|center|170px|Early Falcon 5 design]]
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| 2004 || May 17 || Competition || A successful rocket launch to outer space is completed by the {{w|Civilian Space eXploration Team}} (CSXT), a team of around 30 civilians interested in private spaceflight. CSXT becomes the first [[w:amateur rocketry|amateur]] organization to send a rocket into space.<ref>{{cite web |title=CSXT GO FAST! Rocket Confirms Multiple World Records |url=https://www.coloradospacenews.com/csxt-go-fast-rocket-confirms-multiple-world-records/ |website=coloradospacenews.com |accessdate=2 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Advanced Rocketry |url=https://www.hobbyspace.com/Rocketry/Advanced/records.html |website=hobbyspace.com |accessdate=2 July 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2004 || September 27 || Competition || {{w|Virgin Galactic}} is founded as a spaceflight company by British business magnate {{w|Richard Branson}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Short Review of Virgin Galactic’s Long History |url=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/09/27/short-review-virgin-galactics-long-history/ |website=parabolicarc.com |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2004 || December 22 || Background (policy) || Unted States President {{w|George W. Bush}} signs the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, which provides a basic legal framework for commercial human spaceflight.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6682611/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/private-spaceflight-bill-signed-law/#.V2P1srS4nR0|title=Private-spaceflight bill signed into law|last=Boyle|first=Alan|publisher=NBC|accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2005 || March || Financial (funding) || SpaceX raises US$22 million in Series B funding round, reaching a valuation of US$70.5 million.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 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.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.com"/> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} || || [[File:SpaceX Falcon vertical on the launch pad.jpg| thumb|center|150px|The first Falcon 1 at Vandenberg AFB. This vehicle would eventually be launched from {{w|Kwajalein}}.]]   
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| 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.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.com"/> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} || || [[File:RTS Kwajalein.gif|thumb|center|150px|{{w|Kwajalein}} infrastructure and RTS headquarters. Click to enlarge]]
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| 2006 || January 18 || Program launch || {{w|NASA}} launches its {{w|Commercial Orbital Transportation Services}} to coordinate the delivery of crew and cargo to the {{w|International Space Station}} by private companies.<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA Seeks Proposals for Crew and Cargo Transportation to Orbit |url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18791 |website=spaceref.com |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Cots logo.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Logo used for the COTS program]]
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| 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.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.com"/> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} ||
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| 2006 || March 24 (22:30:00) || Mission (failed test) || {{w|Falcon 1}} fails in its inaugural launch attempt from {{w|Omelek Island}} in {{w|Kwajalein Atoll}}, {{w|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.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.com"/><ref name="COMPLETED MISSIONS">{{cite web|title=COMPLETED MISSIONS|url=http://www.spacex.com/missions|website=spacex.com|accessdate=8 December 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} || No attempt
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| 2006 || July 12 || Competition || {{w|Genesis I}}, an experimental inflatable space habitat developed and owned by {{w|Bigelow Aerospace}}, is successfully launched aboard Russian-Ukrainian [[w:Dnepr (rocket)|Dnepr]] rocket. Genesis I becomes the first inflatable habitat module to reach orbit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/05/iss-inflatable-module-beam-expansion/|title=ISS controllers complete BEAM module expansion|last=Harding|first=Pete|publisher=NASA Spaceflight|date=May 28, 2016|accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2006 || August 18 || Contract || SpaceX announces it has been selected by {{w|NASA}} to demonstrate delivery and return of cargo to the {{w|International Space Station}} as part of the agency's {{w|Commercial Orbital Transportation Services competition}}.<ref name="Seedhouse">{{cite book |last1=Seedhouse |first1=Erik |title=SpaceX: Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=5VVDAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=December+19,+2005+spacex&source=bl&ots=OiH7Av2jGH&sig=ACfU3U0ZB2NXyH3zOLGEDO7LLpwd3sQvow&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlhLChwfjpAhWcIbkGHfWHCyIQ6AEwA3oECAwQAQ#v=onepage&q=December%2019%2C%202005%20spacex&f=false}}</ref> || ||
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| 2006 || September || Contract || SpaceX wins one of two NASA {{w|Commercial Orbital Transportation Services}} contracts, a US$278 million award for three flight demonstrations by SpaceX of its to-be-developed 7 ton "[[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon]]" spacecraft on {{w|Falcon 9}} launch vehicles. The launches would demonstrate Dragon's ability to haul 3.1 tons of cargo to the {{w|International Space Station}} and to return cargo to Earth.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.coms"/> || ||
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| 2006 || November 27 || Team || American aerospace engineer {{w|John Insprucker}} agrees a full-time contract at SpaceX to oversee the development of the {{w|Falcon 9}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spacenews.com/maser-leaves-spacex-lead-pratt-whitney-rocketdyne/|title=Maser Leaves SpaceX To Lead Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne|date=2006-12-07|website=SpaceNews.com|access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2007 || March 15 || Mission (test) ([[w:SpaceX Merlin|Merlin]]) || SpaceX performs a brief, successful static test ignition of the {{w|Falcon 1}} first stage [[w:SpaceX Merlin|Merlin]] engine.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.com"/> || ||
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| 2007 || March 21 (01:10:00) || Mission (failed test) || {{w|Falcon 1}} demo flight 2 is launched from Kwajalein site in {{w|Omelek Island}}, failing to reach orbit, and being the second Falcon 1 launch failure in two attempts.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.com"/><ref name="COMPLETED MISSIONS"/> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} || No attempt
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| 2007 || March || Financial (funding) || SpaceX raises US$31.5 million in Series C funding round, reaching a valuation of US$316.5 million.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2007 || || Facility || SpaceX moves from its {{w|El Segundo, California}} headquarters into a new, huge facility in [[w:Hawthorne, California|Hawthorne]], with the purpose to build a new rocket factory that could handle its larger {{w|Falcon 9}} rockets.<ref name="businessnewsdaily.com">{{cite web |title=4 Tips for Business Success From Entrepreneur Elon Musk |url=https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/98-tips-for-business-success-from-entrepreneur-elon-musk-100802html.html |website=businessnewsdaily.com |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:SpaceX Headquarters, Hawthorne, CA.jpg|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Headquarters, Hawthorne, California]]
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| 2008 || June 25 || Mission (test) || The third Falcon 1 rocket performs a [[w:SpaceX Merlin|Merlin 1C]] static test at Omelek.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.com"/> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} || || [[File:SpaceX factory Merlin engine.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Merlin 1C under construction at SpaceX]]
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| 2008 || August 3 (03:34:00) || Failed mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || The third SpaceX {{w|Falcon 1}} rocket launches, failing shortly after lifting off. {{w|United States Air Force}} [[w:Trailblazer (satellite)|Trailblazer]] satellite, {{w|CubeSat}} {{w|nanosatellite}} {{w|PRESat}} and {{w|NASA}}'s {{w|NanoSail-D}} are lost. This is the third Falcon 1 failure in three attempts.<ref name="spacelaunchreport.com">{{cite web |title=Space Launch Report:  SpaceX Falcon Data Sheet |url=https://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon.html |website=spacelaunchreport.com |accessdate=10 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} || No attempt
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| 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.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2008 || September 28 (23:15:00) || Milestone mission || [[w:Falcon 1|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 {{w|Ratsat}}.<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX">{{cite web|title=THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX|url=https://www.yaabot.com/8479/rise-rise-spacex/|website=yaabot.com|accessdate=4 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/><ref name="spacelaunchreport.com"/> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} || No attempt
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| 2008 || December || Contract || {{w|NASA}} awards SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract for US$1.6 billion.<ref>{{cite web|title=NASA Awards Space Station Commercial Resupply Services Contracts|url=https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/dec/HQ_C08-069_ISS_Resupply.html|website=nasa.gov|accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/> || ||
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| 2008 || December 30 || Infrastructure || The first {{w|Falcon 9}} vehicle is integrated at {{w|Cape Canaveral}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX's Falcon 9 on Launch Pad at Cape Canaveral (with photos) |url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=27338#:~:text=SpaceX%20completed%20the%20Falcon%209,rocket%20to%20the%20launch%20pad. |website=spaceref.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2009 || March 10 || Mission (test) ({{w|SpaceX Merlin}}) || SpaceX announces successful testing of the [[w:SpaceX Merlin|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Completes Full Mission Firing of Merlin Vacuum Engine |url=https://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2009/03/12/spacex-completes-full-mission-firing-of-merlin-vacuum-engine/ |website=satellitetoday.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Merlin 1C Vacuum engine at Hawthorne factory (2008).jpg|120px|Merlin 1C Vacuum engine at Hawthorne factory in 2008|SpaceX Merlin 1C Vacuum engine built at the company's Hawthorne, California facility.]]
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| 2009 || May || Recognition || NASA administrator {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Berger |first1=Eric |title=Forget Dragon, the Falcon 9 rocket is the secret sauce of SpaceX’s success |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/forget-dragon-the-falcon-9-rocket-is-the-secret-sauce-of-spacexs-success/ |website=Ars Technica |access-date=12 May 2022 |language=en-us |date=3 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2009 || June || Financial (funding) || SpaceX raises US$47.3 million from Scott Banister, DFJ Growth, Threshold, and {{w|Elon Musk}} in Series E funding round, reaching a valuation of US$796.4 million.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2009 || June || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} joins {{w|Twitter}}, where he becomes a notable figure.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elon Musk |url=https://twitter.com/elonmusk |website=twitter.com |accessdate=8 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="Elon Musk Is the Her"/> || ||   
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| 2009 || July 14 (03:36:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|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 {{w|Astronautic Technology Sdn Bhd}} (ATSB).<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/><ref name="COMPLETED MISSIONS"/> || {{w|Reagan Test Site}}, {{w|Omelek Island}} || No attempt || [[File:SpaceX Control We are go flight (3719586980).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Inside Mission Control for Flight 5 of the Falcon1 rocket]]
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| 2010 || June 4 (18:45:00) || Mission (test) || Mission N° F9-01.<ref>{{cite web |title=Falcon 9 Demo |url=https://spacex-info.com/falcon-9-demo/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref>. {{w|Falcon 9}} innaugural test flight from {{w|Cape Canaveral}} is conducted. The {{w|Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit}} meets 100% of mission objectives on the first flight.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/> The company makes its inaugural test flight from {{w|Cape Canaveral}}, {{w|Florida}}.<ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/><ref name="COMPLETED MISSIONS"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Falcon 1 launches with RazakSat for Malaysia’s ATSB|url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/07/live-falcon-1-razaksat-for-malaysias-atsb/|website=nasaspaceflight.com|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SPACEX ACHIEVES ORBITAL BULLSEYE WITH INAUGURAL FLIGHT OF FALCON 9 ROCKET|url=http://www.spacex.com/press/2012/12/19/spacex-achieves-orbital-bullseye-inaugural-flight-falcon-9-rocket|website=spacex.com|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt ||
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| 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.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2010 || December 8 (15:43:00) || Mission (test) || Mission N° F9-02.<ref>{{cite web |title=COTS Demo C1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/cots-demo-c1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1}}. SpaceX tests its Falcon 9 and a fully functioning Dragon capsule combination in a launch from {{w|Cape Canaveral}}. The test flight is the first under a {{w|NASA}} contract called COTS ({{w|Commercial Orbital Transportation Services}}. The rocket returns, with SpaceX becoming the first privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref name="MAKING HISTORY">{{cite web|title=MAKING HISTORY|url=http://www.spacex.com/about|website=spacex.com|accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/><ref name="SpaceX is blazing a trail to Mars, one milestone at a time">{{cite web|title=SpaceX is blazing a trail to Mars, one milestone at a time|url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/spacex-biggest-milestones/|website=digitaltrends.com|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/><ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Launches Success with Falcon 9/Dragon Flight|url=https://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/spacexfeature.html|website=nasa.gov|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:COTS-1 Dragon After Return from Orbit (crop).jpg|thumb|center|150px|COTS-1 Dragon After Return from Orbit]]
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| 2011 || January 31 || Facility || {{w|Elon Musk}} announces new SpaceX offices in {{w|Chantilly, Virginia}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX To Grow Operations with Northern Va. Office |url=https://spacenews.com/spacex-grow-operations-northern-va-office/ |website=spacenews.com |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> || ||
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| 2011 || December || Contract || {{w|Stratolaunch Systems}} announces that it would contract with SpaceX to develop an [[w:Air launch to orbit|air-launched]], multiple-stage {{w|launch vehicle}}, as a derivative of Falcon 9 technology, called the Falcon 9 Air.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stratolaunch Systems |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217202825/http://www.stratolaunch.com/team.html |website=web.archive.org |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2011 || || Program launch || SpaceX announces [[w:Grasshopper (rocket)|Grasshopper]] program to develop reusable rockets.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/> || || || [[File:SpaceX Grasshopper (7971310054).jpg|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Grasshopper]]
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| 2012 || May 22 (07:44:38) || Milestone mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-03<ref>{{cite web |title=COTS Demo C2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/cots-demo-c2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> ({{w|SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2}}) is conducted. [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon]] reaches the {{w|International Space Station}}. SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a spacecraft to the ISS ({{w|Falcon 9 Flight 3}}). The launch is the company's second demonstration test flight for NASA's {{w|Commercial Orbital Transportation Services}} (COTS) Program.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dragon Fire|url=https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2254.html|website=nasa.gov|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/><ref name="SpaceX is blazing a trail to Mars, one milestone at a time"/><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:COTS2Dragon.6.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Dragon approaching ISS on 25 May.]]
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| 2012 || June || Infrastructure || SpaceX starts purchasing a number of real estate properties in {{w|Cameron County}}, {{w|Texas}}, where {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}} would be established.<ref>{{cite web |title=SPACEX LAND BUYS GROW |url=http://frankerealty.com/?/news/article/10716 |website=frankerealty.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:SpaceX private-launch facility location--TexasProposal--201304.jpg|thumb|center|120px]]
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| 2012 || October 8, 00:34:07 UTC || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-04<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> is conducted. Falcon 9 launches Dragon on Commercial Resupply Services {{w|SpaceX CRS-1}} mission to the {{w|International Space Station}}, bringing 1,000 lbs of food and cargo to the astronauts on board.<ref>{{cite web|title=How SpaceX's First Space Station Cargo Mission Will Work|url=https://www.space.com/17926-spacex-dragon-capsule-cargo-mission-explained.html|website=space.com|accessdate=8 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Falcon 9 launches Dragon on CRS-1 mission to the ISS|url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/10/falcon-9loft-dragon-crs-1-mission-iss-attempt1/|website=nasaspaceflight.com|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:SpaceX CRS-1 approaches ISS-cropped.jpg|thumb|center|150px|The Dragon CRS-1 is seen approaching the ISS.]]
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| 2013 || February || Team || Bulgarian aeronautical engineer {{w|Margarita Marinova}} joins SpaceX as vehicle systems and propulsion engineer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Margarita Marinova |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarita-marinova-80a578bb/ |website=linkedin.com |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Margarita Marinova October 2017(cropped).jpg|thumb|center|100px|Margarita Marinova]]
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| 2013 || March 1, 15:10:13 UTC || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-05.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> The second SpaceX mission to the {{w|International Space Station}} under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is launched from {{w|Cape Canaveral}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=NASA Coverage Set for March 1 SpaceX Mission to Space Station|url=https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/feb/HQ_M13-037_SpaceX_2_Coverage.html|website=nasa.gov|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-2}} becomes the fourth flight for {{w|SpaceX}}'s uncrewed [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon]] [[w:Comparison of space station cargo vehicles|cargo spacecraft]]. || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:SpX CRS-2 berthing.jpg|thumb|center|150px|The Dragon spacecraft being berthed to Harmony on March 3, 2013]]
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| 2013 || March || Mission (test) || SpaceX completes the first 24-storey test flight of a newly developed rocket, the [[w:Grasshopper (rocket)|Grasshopper]]. Meant to be a prototype for a reusable rocket into space, it safely returns to Earth, landing upright.<ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/> || ||
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| 2013 || September 29 (16:00:13) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-06.<ref>{{cite web |title=CASSIOPE |url=https://spacex-info.com/cassiope/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX successfully launches debut {{w|Falcon 9 v1.1}}, carrying an array of payloads including Canadian {{w|CASSIOPE}} technology demonstration satellite.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX successfully launches debut Falcon 9 v1.1|url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/09/spacex-debut-falcon-9-v1-1-cassiope-launch/|website=nasaspaceflight.com|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || Uncontrolled landing on the ocean || [[File:Launch of Falcon 9 carrying CASSIOPE (130929-F-ET475-012).jpg|thumb|center|170px|The launch of the first Falcon 9 v1.1 from [[w:Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4|SLC-4]], [[w:Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]]]
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| 2013 || December || Contract || {{w|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 [[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|Pad 39A]] at {{w|Kennedy Space Center}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX to Lease Historic NASA Launch Pad|url=https://www.space.com/23963-spacex-leases-historic-nasa-launch-pad.html|website=space.com|accessdate=19 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=HANLEY FRANK|first1=BLAIR|title=NASA chooses SpaceX for launchpad lease, passing over Bezos-backed Blue Origin|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2013/blue-origin-loses-protest-nasa-launch-pad-contract/|website=geekwire.com|accessdate=19 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX beats off Bezos' rocket for rights to historic NASA launch pad|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/14/spacex_historic_nasa_launch_pad/|website=theregister.co.uk|accessdate=19 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Leone|first1=Dan|title=NASA Negotiating Pad Lease with SpaceX after GAO Rejects Blue Origin Protest|url=http://spacenews.com/38660nasa-negotiating-pad-lease-with-spacex-after-gao-rejects-blue-origin/|website=spacenews.com|accessdate=19 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon founder Bezos' space company loses challenge over NASA launch pad|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-launchpad/amazon-founder-bezos-space-company-loses-challenge-over-nasa-launch-pad-idUSBRE9BB1CI20131213|website=reuters.com|accessdate=19 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX wins NASA’s nod to take over historic Launch Pad 39A SHARE Share Tweet Email Print|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/science/spacex-wins-nasas-nod-take-over-historic-launch-pad-39a-2d11741834|website=nbcnews.com|accessdate=19 December 2017}}</ref> || || || [[File:LC39A and LC39B.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Aerial view of Launch Complex 39, showing the launch pads 39B (top) and 39A (bottom)]]
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| 2013 || December 3, 22:41:00 UTC || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit when {{w|Falcon 9}} v1.1 rocket launches the {{w|SES-8}} commercial communications satellite into orbit from Cape {{w|Canaveral Air Force Station}}. The mission is SpaceX's first commercial satellite launch into a geostationary transfer orbit.<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Launch Photos: SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Blasts Off On Landmark Satellite Mission|url=https://www.space.com/23727-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-photos-ses8-satellite.html|website=space.com|accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:Falcon 9 carrying SES-8 (08).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SES-8 communications satellite.]]
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| 2014 || January 6 (22:06:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-08.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thaicom-6 |url=https://spacex-info.com/thaicom-6/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9 v1.1}} launches carrying {{w|Thai}} commercial telecommunications satellite {{w|Thaicom 6}} placing it into geosynchronous transfer orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Delivers Thaicom-6 Satellite to Orbit |url=https://spacenews.com/38959spacex-delivers-thaicom-6-satellite-to-orbit/ |website=spacenews.com |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2014 || April 18 (19:25:22) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-09.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-3 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-3/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-3}} {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission launches aboard {{w|Falcon 9}} toward the {{w|International Space Station}} for resupply. Payload includes {{w|High Definition Earth Viewing cameras}}<ref>{{cite web |title=CRS-3 Dragon di SpaceX in orbita verso la ISS |url=https://www.astronautinews.it/2014/04/crs-3-dragon-di-spacex-in-orbita-verso-la-iss/ |website=astronautinews.it |accessdate=11 June 2020}}</ref>, the {{w|Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science}} (OPALS) device<ref>{{cite web |title=Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science |url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/optical-payload-for-lasercomm-science-opals/ |website=jpl.nasa.gov |accessdate=11 June 2020}}</ref>, and the {{w|Vegetable Production System}}, among other instruments.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches CRS-3 Dragon |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/04/spacex-crs-3-dragon-new-milestones/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=11 June 2020}}</ref> The rocket first stage lands on barge in ocean, but is destroyed by heavy seas.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Controlled landing on the ocean
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| 2014 || May || Team || Canadian aerospace engineer {{w|Andrew Rader}} joins SpaceX as mission manager.<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew Rader |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-rader/ |website=linkedin.com |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Andrew Rader Headshot.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Andrew Rader]]
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| 2014 || May–July || Background (private spaceflight) || NASA's {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/science/space/calling-back-a-zombie-ship-from-the-graveyard-of-space.html?_r=1|title=Calling Back a Zombie Ship From the Graveyard of Space|last=Chang|first=Kenneth|publisher=The New York Times|date=June 14, 2014|accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2014/20140814-isee-3-spacecraft-for-all.html|title=Data From the Rescued ISEE-3 Spacecraft Have a New Internet Home|last=Davis|first=Jason|publisher=The Planetary Society|date=August 8, 2014|accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2014 || July 14 (15:15:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-10.<ref>{{cite web |title=Orbcomm OG2-1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/orbcomm-og2-1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX conducts its {{w|Falcon 9 flight 10}} mission, lofting a constellation of six [[w:Orbcomm (satellite)|ORBCOMM OG2]] satellites to orbit.<ref>{{cite web|title=FALCON 9 LAUNCHES ORBCOMM OG2 SATELLITES TO ORBIT|url=http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/14/falcon-9-launches-orbcomm-og2-satellites-orbit|website=spacex.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Controlled landing on the ocean
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| 2014 || August 4 || Facility || The [[w:Texas|state of Texas]] and {{w|SpaceX}} announce agreement to build a [[w:SpaceX South Texas Launch Site|spaceport at Boca Chica Beach]], near {{w|Brownsville, Texas}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Texas, SpaceX announce spaceport deal near Brownsville |url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Texas-SpaceX-announce-spaceport-deal-near-5667434.php |website=mysanantonio.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2014 || August 5 (08:00:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-11.<ref>{{cite web |title=AsiaSat 8 |url=https://spacex-info.com/asiasat-8/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches {{w|Falcon 9}} to deliver Hong Kong geostationary communications satellite {{w|AsiaSat 8}} to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nightly Launch & successful Orbital Delivery by Falcon 9, lofting AsiaSat-8|url=http://www.spaceflight101.net/spacex-falcon-9---asiasat-8-launch-updates.html|website=spaceflight101.net|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2014 || September 7 (05:00:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-13.<ref>{{cite web |title=AsiaSat 6 |url=https://spacex-info.com/asiasat-6/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches {{w|Falcon 9}} with {{w|AsiaSat 6}} satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit.<ref>{{cite web|title=SPACEX FALCON 9 LAUNCHES ASIASAT 6 SATELLITE|url=http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/09/08/spacex-falcon-9-launches-asiasat-6-satellite|website=spacex.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Falcon Launches AsiaSat 6 Satellite After Weeks of Delay |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/spacex-falcon-launches-asiasat-6-satellite-after-weeks-delay-n197561 |website=nbcnews.com |accessdate=3 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:Launch of Falcon 9 carrying ASIASAT 6 (16233828644).jpg|thumb|center|110px|Launch of Falcon 9 carrying ASIASAT 6]]
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| 2014 || September || Contract || {{w|NASA}} awards SpaceX a US$2.6 billion contract to fly American astronauts, and announces that SpaceX and {{w|Boeing}} will be the two companies developing spacecraft to send astronauts to the {{w|International Space Station}}. SpaceX’s crew capsule is called the [[w:Dragon 2|Dragon V2]].<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/> || ||
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| 2014 || September 21 (05:52:03) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-12.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-4 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-4/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX Dragon C106}} spacecraft is first launched aboard {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket from {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}}, carrying fourth cargo delivery flight ({{w|SpaceX CRS-4}}) to the {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=NASA Cargo Launches to Space Station Aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission|url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/releases/2014/release-20140921.html|website=nasa.gov|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> It would splash down in October, being successfully retrieved. || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Uncontrolled landing on the ocean || [[File:SpaceX CRS-4 Dragon.jpg|thumb|center|150px|CRS-4 Dragon approaching ISS on 23 September 2014]]
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| 2014 || September 22 || Facility || SpaceX conducts a groundbreaking ceremony on the new [[w:SpaceX South Texas Launch Site|South Texas Launch Site]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Breaks Ground on Texas Spaceport |url=https://spacenews.com/41957spacex-breaks-ground-on-texas-spaceport/ |website=spacenews.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Sentinel-2 L1C image on 2020-08-09 (1).jpg|thumb|center|150px]]
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| 2014 || September 22 || Notable comment || Elon Musk indicates that "the first person to go to another planet could launch from the [[w:SpaceX South Texas Launch Site|Boca Chica launch site]]" ({{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}})<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Plans To Send People From Brownsville To Mars In Order To Save Mankind |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/spacex-plans-to-send-people-from-brownsville-to-mars-in-order-to-save-mankind/ |website=texasmonthly.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:SpaceX Boca Chica launch site.jpg|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Boca Chica launch site]]
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| 2014 || October 23 || Background (private spacecraft) || The {{w|Manfred Memorial Moon Mission}} (4M) is launched by European space systems contractor {{w|LuxSpace}}. This is the first commercial payload sent to fly by the {{w|Moon}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/10/25/first-commercial-mission-to-the-moon-launched-from-china/|last=Clark|first=Stephen|title=First commercial mission to the moon launched from China|publisher=Spaceflight Now|date=October 25, 2014|accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2015 || January 10 (09:47:10) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-14.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-5 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-5/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-5}} {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission launches aboard {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=CRS-5 Dragon successfully launched – Core ASDS landing attempted |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/01/spacex-dragon-crs-5-launch-historic-core-return/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX begins a series of first stage landing attempts of its Falcon 9 rocket on an {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/> The rocket crashes and burns.<ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Failed landing at original ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:CRS-5 Dragon on approach to ISS (ISS042-E-119867).jpg|thumb|center|150px|CRS-5 Dragon on approach to ISS]]
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| 2015 || January || Financial (funding) || SpaceX raises US$1 billion from a number of investors including {{w|Founders Fund}}, {{w|Google}}, and {{w|Fidelity Investments}}, in Series G funding round, reaching a valuation of US$10.1 billion.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2015 || February 11 || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-15.<ref>{{cite web |title=DSCOVR |url=https://spacex-info.com/dscovr/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} successfully launches the {{w|Deep Space Climate Observatory}} DSCOVR spacecraft.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches the DSCOVR spacecraft|url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/02/spacex-falcon-9-dscovr-mission/|website=nasaspaceflight.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Controlled landing in the ocean
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| 2015 || March 2 (03:50:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-16.<ref>{{cite web |title=ABS / Eutelsat-1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/abs-eutelsat-1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} launches two communications satellites, the {{w|Eutelsat 115 West B}} and {{w|ABS-3A}} to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Achieves Three-for-Three, With Nocturnal Launch of Two Communications Satellites|url=http://www.americaspace.com/2015/03/02/spacex-achieves-three-for-three-with-nocturnal-launch-of-two-communications-satellites/|website=americaspace.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2015 || April 14 (20:10:41) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-18.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-6 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-6/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} lifts off from {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} carrying the [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon]] resupply spacecraft on the sixth commercial resupply services mission ({{w|SpaceX CRS-6}}) to the {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Launches NASA Cargo and Research To International Space Station|url=https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-launches-nasa-cargo-and-research-to-international-space-station|website=nasa.gov|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Failed landing at original ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:SpaceX CRS-6 Patch.png|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX CRS-6 Patch]]
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| 2015 || April 27 (23:03:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-17. Falcon 9 launches {{w|Turkmenistan}}'s first {{w|satellite}} ({{w|TürkmenÄlem 52°E / MonacoSAT}}), into orbit.<ref>{{cite web|title=FALCON 9 LAUNCHES SATELLITE FOR THALES ALENIA SPACE|url=http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/04/28/falcon-9-launches-turkmenalem52emonacosat-thales-alenia-space|website=spacex.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Thales Alenia Space |url=https://spacex-info.com/thales-alenia-space/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2015 || May 6, 13:00 UTC || Mission (test) || {{w|Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test}} is conducted. SpaceX launches a rocket escape system for its manned [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon]] spaceships, a critical system designed to save astronauts in a launch emergency.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Tests 'Revolutionary' Dragon Launch Escape System to Save Astronauts|url=https://www.space.com/29329-spacex-tests-dragon-launch-abort-system.html|website=space.com|accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ||[[File:Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test (16814592054).jpg|thumb|center|150px|DragonFly launches at the start of the flight]]
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| 2015 || June 28 (14:21:11) || Failed mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-20.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-7 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-7/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> A {{w|Falcon9}} rocket explodes during takeoff.<ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/> The {{w|SpaceX CRS-7}} launch vehicle disintegrates a few minutes after liftoff.<ref>{{cite web |title=Unmanned SpaceX rocket explodes after Florida launch |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33305083 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File:SpaceX CRS-7 Patch.png|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX CRS-7 Patch]]
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| 2015 || October || Facility || SpaceX begins soil preparation at {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Foundation Problems Delay SpaceX Launch |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318130257/http://www.krgv.com/story/30994915/foundation-problems-delay-spacex-launch |website=web.archive.org |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2015 || November 23 || Competition || [[w:Human-rating certification|Human-rated]] {{w|suborbital}} {{w|rocket}} {{w|New Shepard}} is successfuly launched by {{w|Blue Origin}} into space, landing back vertically. This makes it the first {{w|VTVL}} rocket to land on Earth from space.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spacenews.com/blue-origin-successfully-flies-new-shepard-suborbital-vehicle/|title=Blue Origin Flies — and Lands — New Shepard Suborbital Spacecraft|last=Foust|first=Jeff|publisher=Space News|date=November 24, 2015|accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2015 || November 25 || Background (policy) || United States President {{w|Barack Obama}} signs the [[w:Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=H.R.2262 - U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2262 |website=congress.gov |accessdate=4 July 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2015 || December 22 (01:29:00) || Milestone mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-21.<ref>{{cite web |title=Orbcomm OG2-2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/orbcomm-og2-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|Falcon 9 flight 20}} launches carrying 11 {{w|Orbcomm-OG2}} communications satellites to Earth orbit. In this mission SpaceX achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on land.<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/><ref name="History of SpaceX: 10 milestones and hurdles the space company has faced"/><ref name="TIMELINE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPACEX’S REUSABLE ROCKET LAUNCHES"/><ref name="SpaceX is blazing a trail to Mars, one milestone at a time"/> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:Falcon 9 first stage in hangar; upgraded Merlin engines close-up (24175842635).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Falcon 9 first stage engines after its flight]]
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| 2016 || January 17 (18:42:18) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-19.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jason-3 |url=https://spacex-info.com/jason-3/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches the {{w|Jason-3}} satellite for {{w|NASA}}, which plans to measure the height of the ocean surface, aboard a {{w|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.<ref name="TIMELINE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPACEX’S REUSABLE ROCKET LAUNCHES">{{cite web|last1=ZIV|first1=STAV|title=TIMELINE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPACEX’S REUSABLE ROCKET LAUNCHES|url=http://www.newsweek.com/spacex-timeline-brief-history-reusable-rocket-launches-417944|website=newsweek.com|accessdate=8 December 2017}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || Failed landing at ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2016 || January 22 || Competition || {{w|Blue Origin}}'s {{w|VTVL}} rocket becomes the first VTVL to reach space twice, after launching and landing the same {{w|New Shepard}} booster flown in November.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial/blue-origin-re-flies-new-shepard/|last=Rhian|first=Jason|title=Blue Origin re-flies New Shepard used on Nov. 2015 flight|publisher=Spaceflight Insider|date=January 22, 2016}}</ref> || ||
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| 2016 || March 4 (23:35:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-22.<ref>{{cite web |title=SES-9 |url=https://spacex-info.com/ses-9/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches into orbit carrying the {{w|SES-9}} communications satellite.<ref>{{cite web|title=Photos: SpaceX Launches SES-9 Satellite, Attempts Rocket Landing|url=https://www.space.com/32040-spacex-ses-9-satellite-launch-rocket-landing-try-photos.html|website=space.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Failed landing at ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} 
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| 2016 || April 8 (20:43:31) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-23.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-8 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-8/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> ({{w|SpaceX CRS-8}}). The company achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on an ocean platform ({{w|Falcon 9 Flight 23}}).<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:SpaceX CRS-8 Patch.png|thumb|center|120px|SpaceX CRS-8 Patch]]
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| 2016 || May 6 (05:21:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-24.<ref>{{cite web |title=JCSAT-14 |url=https://spacex-info.com/jcsat-14/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|Falcon 9 Full Thrust}} launches carrying Japanese satellite {{w|JCSAT-14}} toward {{w|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 {{w|Florida}} coast.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX records another rocket landing|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36223745|website=bbc.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:JCSAT-14 Launch (26778141661).jpg|thumb|center|150px|JCSAT-14 Launch]]
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| 2016 || May 27 (21:39:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-25.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thaicom-8 |url=https://spacex-info.com/thaicom-8/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches placing the {{w|Thaicom 8}} commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX launches Thaicom-8, returns Falcon 9 first stage to offshore drone ship|url=http://spacenews.com/spacex-successfully-launches-thaicom-8-returns-falcon-9-first-stage-to-offshore-drone-ship/|website=spacenews.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2016 || June 15 (14:29:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9 flight 26}} launches both [[w:ABS (satellite operator)|ABS]]'s {{w|ABS-2A}} and {{w|Eutelsat}}'s {{w|Eutelsat 117 West B}} (formerly {{w|Satmex}} 9) to {{w|geostationary transfer orbit}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=ABS / Eutelsat-2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/abs-eutelsat-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mission events timeline for Falcon 9’s launch for ABS and Eutelsat |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/06/14/mission-events-timeline-for-falcon-9s-launch-for-abs-and-eutelsat/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=14 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2016 || July 7 || Facility || SpaceX signs a five-year lease for almost 8,000 square feet of office space in {{w|Irvine, California}}, and starts advertising engineering positions for this office.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hawthorne-based SpaceX leases office space in Irvine |url=https://www.dailybreeze.com/2016/07/07/hawthorne-based-spacex-leases-office-space-in-irvine/ |website=dailybreeze.com |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> || ||
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| 2016 || July 18 (04:45:29) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-27.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-9 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-9/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-9}} {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission launches aboard {{w|Falcon 9 Full Thrust}} carrying a [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon]] capsule toward the {{w|International Space Station}} for resupply.<ref>{{cite web|title=No. 5! SpaceX Lands Another Rocket During Space Station Cargo Launch|url=https://www.space.com/33443-spacex-dragon-launch-rocket-landing.html|website=space.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:CRS-9 (27776229243).jpg|thumb|center|150px]]
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| 2016 || August 14 (05:26:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-28.<ref>{{cite web |title=JCSAT-16 |url=https://spacex-info.com/jcsat-16/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} successfully launches {{w|JCSAT-16}} commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit, before landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX successfully launches JCSat-16 satellite, faces crowded end-year manifest|url=http://spacenews.com/spacex-successfully-launches-jcsat-16-satellite-faces-crowded-end-year-manifest/|website=spacenews.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:JCSAT-16 first stage landing.png|thumb|center|150px|JCSAT-16 first stage landing]]
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| 2016 || September 1 (13:07) || Failed mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-29, scheduled for launch on September 3, fails as the {{w|Falcon 9}} explodes on the pad, just before a static-fire test.<ref>{{cite web |title=AMOS-6 |url=https://spacex-info.com/amos-6/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Israeli Earth {{w|communications satellite}} {{w|Amos-6}} is destroyed.<ref>{{cite web |title=AMOS-6 |url=https://spacex-info.com/amos-6/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File:SLC-40 after Falcon 9 fire.png|thumb|center|150px|SLC-40 after Falcon 9 fire]]
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| 2017 || January 14 (17:54:39) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-30.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iridium NEXT-1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/iridium-next-1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} successfully delivers 10 Iridium NEXT satellites to low-Earth orbit for {{w|Iridium Communications}}, an American company that operates mobile voice and data satellite communications.<ref>{{cite web|title=IRIDIUM-1 MISSION IN PHOTOS|url=http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/01/14/iridium-1-mission-photos|website=spacex.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:Iridium-1 Launch (31467130374).jpg|thumb|center|120px]]
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| 2017 || February 19 ( 14:39:00) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-32.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-10 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-10/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-10}} [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon]] {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission launches aboard {{w|Falcon 9}} carrying nearly 5,500 pounds of supplies to the {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Watch SpaceX’s second launch attempt from one of NASA’s most historic launch pads|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/18/14648594/spacex-rocket-launch-falcon-9-dragon-39a-watch-livestream|website=theverge.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:Dragon approaches the ISS (32238998454).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Dragon approaching the ISS on 23 February 2017]]
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| 2017 || March 2 || Contract || SpaceX files with the {{w|Federal Communications Commission}} plans to field a constellation of an additional 7,518 [[w:V band|V-band]] satellites in non-{{w|geosynchronous orbit}}s to provide communications services.<ref>{{cite web |title=FCC gets five new applications for non-geostationary satellite constellations |url=https://spacenews.com/fcc-gets-five-new-applications-for-non-geostationary-satellite-constellations/ |website=SpaceNews |access-date=12 May 2022 |date=3 March 2017}}</ref> || ||
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| 2017 || March 16 (06:00:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-31.<ref>{{cite web |title=EchoStar 23 |url=https://spacex-info.com/echostar-23/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket delivers heavyweight {{w|EchoStar}} 23 communications satellite into a high-altitude orbit, a mission near the limit of capability.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Rocket Launches EchoStar 23 Communications Satellite Into Orbit|url=https://www.space.com/36051-spacex-rocket-launches-echostar-23-satellite.html|website=space.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2017 || March 30 (22:27:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-33.<ref>{{cite web |title=SES-10 |url=https://spacex-info.com/ses-10/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX reuses a rocket for the first time ever. The {{w|Falcon 9}} launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the {{w|SES-10}} communications satellite.<ref>{{cite web|title=Live coverage: SpaceX launches previously-flown rocket|url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/03/30/ses-10-mission-status-center/|website=spaceflightnow.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="SpaceX is blazing a trail to Mars, one milestone at a time"/><ref name="fairingrec">{{cite web |url=http://fortune.com/2017/04/01/spacex-nose-cone-falcon9/ |title=SpaceX, In Another First, Recovers $6 Million Nose Cone From Reused Falcon 9 |publisher=Fortune.com |accessdate=4 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:SES-10 Launch - world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket (33616913981).jpg|thumb|center|150px]]
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| 2017 || May 1 (11:15:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-34.<ref>{{cite web |title=NROL-76 |url=https://spacex-info.com/nrol-76/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches classified satellite for the United States {{w|National Reconnaissance Office}} (NRO).<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite on Secret Mission, Nails Rocket Landing|url=https://www.space.com/36666-spacex-launches-first-spy-satellite-nails-landing.html|website=space.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}}
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| 2017 || May 15 (23:21:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-35.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inmarsat-5 F4 |url=https://spacex-info.com/inmarsat-5-f4/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches from {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} [[w:Inmarsat|Inmarsat 5 F4]] communications satellite.<ref>{{cite web|title=Live coverage: SpaceX succeeds in commercial satellite launch|url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/05/15/falcon-9-inmarsat-5-f4-mission-status-center/|website=spaceflightnow.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2017 || June 3 (21:07:38) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-36.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-11 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-11/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-11}} {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission launches as the first reflight of a commercial cargo spacecraft, the {{w|SpaceX Dragon C106}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spacex.com/webcast|title=ZUMA MISSION|first=|last=spacexcmsadmin|date=4 December 2017|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/> The refurbished ship flies to the {{w|International Space Station}}, carrying onboard {{w|NASA}} telescope {{w|Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer}}. It is the first time the same unmanned spacecraft returns to the station.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/><ref name="SpaceX is blazing a trail to Mars, one milestone at a time"/> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:SpaceX CRS-11 Dragon approaching ISS (ISS052e000368).jpg|thumb|center|150px|C106 in flight in June 2017, during CRS-11]]
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| 2017 || June 23 (19:10:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-37.<ref>{{cite web |title=BulgariaSat-1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/bulgariasat-1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} launches into orbit {{w|BulgariaSat-1}}, the first geostationary communications satellite in Bulgaria’s history.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rocket Launch: June 23, 2017 2:10 PM|url=https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2017/june/rocket-launch-spacex-falcon-9-bulgariasat-1|website=kennedyspacecenter.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:BulgariaSat-1 Mission (35496027525).jpg|thumb|center|150px|BulgariaSat-1 launches on a {{w|Falcon 9}}]]
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| 2017 || June 25 (20:25:14) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-38.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iridium NEXT-2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/iridium-next-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches and successfully deploys ten {{w|Iridium Communications}} satellites.<ref>{{cite web|title=Live coverage: Ten Iridium satellites successfully deployed by Falcon 9 rocket|url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/06/24/iridium-next-mission-2-mission-status-center/|website=spaceflightnow.com|accessdate=7 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Set for Second Falcon 9 Launch in Three Days |url=https://www.space.com/37301-spacex-second-launch-in-three-days.html |website=space.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Doubleheader Part 2 – Falcon 9 conducts Iridium NEXT-2 launch |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/06/spacex-falcon-9-iridium-next-2-launch/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2017 || July 5 (23:38:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-39.<ref>{{cite web |title=Intelsat 35e |url=https://spacex-info.com/intelsat-35e/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|Falcon 9}} launches from {{w|Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39}}, carrying the {{w|Intelsat 35e}} satellite to {{w|geostationary transfer orbit}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Three Launches in 12 Days! SpaceX Lofts Heavy Communications Satellite|url=https://www.space.com/37373-spacex-falcon9-intelsat-launch-success.html|website=space.com|accessdate=8 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:Intelsat 35e Mission (35577536822).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Intelsat 35e Mission]]
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| 2017 || August 14 (16:31:37) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-41.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-12 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-12/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} launches from {{w|Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39}} carrying the Dragon vehicle in its twelfth flight ({{w|SpaceX CRS-12}}) to the {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rocket Launch: August 14, 2017 12:31 PM|url=https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2017/august/rocket-launch-spacex-crs-12|website=kennedyspacecenter.com|accessdate=8 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:SpaceX CRS-12 Dragon grappled by the ISS Canadarm2.jpg|thumb|center|150px|The CRS-12 Dragon spacecraft grappled by Canadarm2]]
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| 2017 || August 24 (18:51:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-40.<ref>{{cite web |title=Formosat-5 |url=https://spacex-info.com/formosat-5/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} in California, carrying the {{w|Formosat-5}} Earth observation satellite for {{w|Taiwan}}’s {{w|National Space Organization}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket soars into space from California|url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/08/24/falcon-9-formosat-5-mission-status-center/|website=spaceflightnow.com|accessdate=8 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:FORMOSAT-5 in orbit (artist concept).png|thumb|center|150px|Artist's concept of Formosat-5 in orbit]]
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| 2017 || September || Technology introduction || New rocket booster, the [[w:BFR (rocket)|BFR rocket]] is announced, along with updated plans for {{w|Mars colonization}}.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/> || ||
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| 2017 || September 7 (14:00:00) || Mission (spacecraft launch) || Mission N° F9-42.<ref>{{cite web |title=Boeing X-37B OTV-5 |url=https://spacex-info.com/boeing-x-37b-otv-5/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX’s {{w|Falcon 9}} successfully launches the [[w:Boeing X-37|Boeing Orbital Test Vehicle 5]] (OTV-5) payload from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} in Florida.<ref>{{cite web|title=OTV-5 MISSION|url=http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/09/07/otv-5-mission|website=spacex.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Rocket Launch: September 7, 2017 9:50 am SpaceX Falcon 9 OTV-5|url=https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2017/september/rocket-launch-spacex-otv-5|website=kennedyspacecenter.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Live coverage: Falcon 9 blasts off with X-37B mini-shuttle|url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/09/07/falcon-9-otv-5-mission-status-center/|website=spaceflightnow.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}}
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| 2017 || September 29 || Vehicle design update || At the 68th annual meeting of the {{w|International Astronautical Congress}}, SpaceX unveils the updated vehicle design of a big [[W:SpaceX Falcon|Falcon rocket]]. Musk says, "we are searching for the right name, but the code name, at least, is BFR."<ref>{{cite web |title=BFR Colonial/Transport (CT) Rocket |url=https://aminoapps.com/c/space/page/item/bfr-colonial-transport-ct-rocket/pXL3_zxDUpIqmqNgx0GMv8zZGlVnr7Zlzel |website=aminoapps.com |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> || ||
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| 2017 || October 9 (12:37:01) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-44,<ref>{{cite web |title=Iridium NEXT-3 |url=https://spacex-info.com/iridium-next-3/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> also called Iridium-3 Mission<ref>{{cite web |title=SPACEX LAUNCHES 10 IRIDIUM NEXT SATELLITES ON IRIDIUM-3 MISSION |url=https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-exploration-technologies/spacex-launches-10-iridium-next-satellites-iridium-3-mission/ |website=spaceflightinsider.com |access-date=20 December 2020}}</ref>, is conducted. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 next-generation Iridium communications satellites (Third flight).<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX static fires Falcon 9 for Iridium 3, Vandenberg manifest realigns|url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/spacex-falcon-9-iridium-3-static-fire-vandenberg-manifest-realigns/|website=nasaspaceflight.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from California, lands in Pacific|url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/10/09/falcon-9-iridium-3-mission-status-center/|website=spaceflightnow.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Drone Ships Return to Home Ports with More & Less Used Falcon 9 Rockets|url=https://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-iridium-next-flight-3/|website=spaceflight101.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:Iridium-3 Mission (37610547226).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Iridium-3 Mission]]
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| 2017 || October 11 (22:53:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-43.<ref>{{cite web |title=SES-11 |url=https://spacex-info.com/ses-11/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX successfully launches the {{w|EchoStar}} 105/SES-11 payload from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s {{w|Kennedy Space Center}}, {{w|Florida}}. The satellite is deployed approximately 36 minutes after liftoff into its targeted orbit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rocket Launch: October 11, 2017 6:53 PM |url=https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2017/october/rocket-launch-spacex-falcon-9-echostar-105-ses-11|website=kennedyspacecenter.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX just landed the 12th Falcon 9 rocket of 2017|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/11/16455292/spacex-live-stream-time-falcon-9-launch-echostar-105-ses-11-reusable-rocket|website=theverge.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ECHOSTAR 105/SES-11 MISSION|url=http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/10/11/echostar-105ses-11-mission|website=spacex.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2017 || October 30 (19:34:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-45.<ref>{{cite web |title=Koreasat-5A |url=https://spacex-info.com/koreasat-5a/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches from Cape Canaveral and successfully delivers South Korean satellite {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rocket Launch: Monday, October 30, 2017 3:34 p.m. |url=https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2017/october/rocket-launch-spacex-falcon-9-koreasat-5a|website=kennedyspacecenter.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=O'Kane|first1=Sean|title=SpaceX lands the 13th Falcon 9 rocket of the year in flames|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/30/16570874/spacex-falcon-9-watch-koreasat-launch|website=theverge.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Falcon 9 launch timeline with Koreasat 5A|url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/10/30/falcon-9-launch-timeline-with-koreasat-5a/|website=spaceflightnow.com|accessdate=7 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="COMPLETED MISSIONS"/> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2017 || November || Program launch || SpaceX plans launch of the most powerful rocket since the {{w|Saturn V}} last left for the moon in 1973.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/> || ||
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| 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.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2017 || December 15 (15:36:09) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-47.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-13 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-13/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches the 13th operational Dragon cargo spacecraft ({{w|SpaceX CRS-13}}) to the International Space Station on the company’s fourth mission under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services Program in the year.<ref>{{cite web|title=FALCON 9 • DRAGON SPX-13|url=https://spaceflight101.com/events/falcon-9-dragon-spx-13/|website=spaceflight101.com|accessdate=8 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:CRS-13 Dragon at the ISS.jpg|thumb|center|170px|CRS-13 Dragon attached to the ISS]]
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| 2017 || December 23 (01:27:34) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-48.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iridium NEXT-4 |url=https://spacex-info.com/iridium-next-4/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches from {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} in {{w|California}} with 10 next-generation {{w|Iridium Communications}} satellites (fourth flight).<ref name="COMPLETED MISSIONS"/> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || Controlled landing on the ocean
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| 2018 || January 8 (01:00:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-46.<ref>{{cite web |title=ZUMA |url=https://spacex-info.com/zuma/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches classified spacecraft [[w:Zuma (satellite)|Zuma]] for the {{w|United States}} government.<ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX to Launch Mysterious Zuma Spacecraft Tonight: Watch It Live|url=https://www.space.com/39310-spacex-mysterious-zuma-mission-launch-webcast.html|website=space.com|accessdate=8 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}}
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| 2018 || January 21 || Competition || American aerospace company {{w|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 [[w:Electron (rocket)|Electron]] rocket from [[w:Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1|Mahia Launch Center]], located on the north island of New Zealand on the Mahia Peninsula.<ref>{{cite web |title=IS ROCKET LAB THE NEW SPACEX? THE ELECTRON VS FALCON |url=https://everydayastronaut.com/is-rocket-lab-the-new-spacex-the-electron-vs-falcon/ |website=everydayastronaut.com |accessdate=2 July 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1}} ||
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| 2018 || January 31 (21:25:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-49.<ref>{{cite web |title=GovSat-1 / SES-16 |url=https://spacex-info.com/govsat-1-ses-16/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|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 {{w|Luxembourg}} and commercial satellite operator {{w|SES S.A.}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Falcon 9 launches GovSat-1 from SLC-40 – Booster survives water landing|url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/01/spacex-govsat-1-falcon-9-launch/|website=nasaspaceflight.com|accessdate=8 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Controlled landing on the ocean
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| 2018 || February 6, 20:45 UTC || Milestone mission || Mission N° FH-01<ref>{{cite web |title=Falcon Heavy Demo |url=https://spacex-info.com/falcon-heavy-demo/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> ({{w|Falcon Heavy test flight}}) is conducted. SpaceX successfully launches its {{w|Falcon Heavy}} rocket carrying aboard a [[w:Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster|Tesla Roadster]] and “Starman”, a dummy in a SpaceX spacesuit. The Roadster is destined into a billion-year orbit around {{w|Mars}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Live Feed Shows SpaceX "Starman" Traveling Through Space in a Tesla|url=https://www.inverse.com/article/41015-spacex-starman-traveling-through-space-live-feed|website=inverse.com|accessdate=4 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || Failed B3 B1033 [[w:Booster (rocketry)|booster]] landing at ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}. Successful B2 B1023.2 and B2 B1025.2 [[w:Booster (rocketry)|booster]] landing at  {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ({{w|Landing Zones 1 and 2}}), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster (40110297852).jpg|thumb|center|150px]]
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| 2018 || February 22 (14:17:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-50.<ref>{{cite web |title=Paz / Starlink Demo |url=https://spacex-info.com/paz-starlink-demo/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches Spain’s [[w:Paz (satellite)|Paz]] radar satellite from {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}}. The launch also carries the first demonstration satellites for SpaceX’s own satellite internet constellation, the SpaceX [[w:Starlink (satellite constellation)|Starlink]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Falcon 9 Launches PAZ Radar Satellite & SpaceX Starlink Prototypes, Debuts Fairing 2.0|url=https://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-paz/|website=spaceflight101.com|accessdate=8 March 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || No attempt || [[File:PAZ Mission (25557987937).jpg|thumb|center|150px|PAZ mission launch]]
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| 2018 || March 6 (05:33:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-51.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hispasat 30W-6 |url=https://spacex-info.com/hispasat-30w-6/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches its 50th {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket, successfully orbiting a city bus-sized satellite for Spanish operator {{w|Hispasat}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Launches Satellite the Size of a City Bus |url=https://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2018/03/06/spacex-launches-satellite-the-size-of-a-city-bus/ |website=satellitetoday.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches Spanish satellite for 50th successful Falcon 9 mission |url=https://www.wtsp.com/article/tech/science/space/spacex-launches-spanish-satellite-for-50th-successful-falcon-9-mission/67-526204355 |website=wtsp.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2018 || March 15 || Contract || The {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fernholz |first1=Tim |title=SpaceX wins lucrative new contracts to fly GPS and earth-imaging satellites |url=https://qz.com/1229463/elon-musks-spacex-wins-lucrative-new-contracts-to-fly-gps-and-earth-imaging-satellites-for-the-us-air-force/ |website=qz.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX and United Launch Alliance land $640 million in Air Force launches |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/spacex-and-united-launch-alliance-land-640-million-in-air-force-launches/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Shieber |first1=Jonathan |title=SpaceX is making big money moves |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/16/spacex-is-making-big-money-moves/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref> || ||
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| 2018 || March 30 (14:13:51) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-52. Falcon 9 launches carrying 10 [[w:Iridium Communications|Iridium]] satellites and a satellite dispenser.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iridium NEXT-5 |url=https://spacex-info.com/iridium-next-5/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || No attempt
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| 2018 || April 2 (20:30:38) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-53.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-14 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-14/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> The {{w|SpaceX CRS-14}} {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission launches with a reused {{w|Falcon 9 Full Thrust}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=CRS-14: SpaceX Falcon 9 conducts second flight with previously flown Dragon |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/04/crs-14-spacex-falcon-9-second-flight-previously-flown-dragon/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:SpaceX CRS-14 Dragon approaches the ISS (1).jpg|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX CRS-14 arriving at the ISS on 4 April 2018]]
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| 2018 || April 18 (22:51:30) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-54.<ref>{{cite web |title=TESS |url=https://spacex-info.com/tess/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches NASA's {{w|Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite}} (TESS) into outer space in a mission aimed at surveying nearly the entire sky for exoplanets.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Launches NASA Satellite To Search For Alien Worlds |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/18/603746206/watch-live-spacex-launches-nasa-satellite-to-search-for-alien-worlds |website=npr.org |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches NASA’s TESS spacecraft on mission to seek out alien planets |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2018/tess-spacex-nasa-exoplanets/ |website=geekwire.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX hits triple success with launch of NASA's planet-hunter TESS |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-bz-spacex-tess-second-attempt-20180418-story.html |website=orlandosentinel.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s planet hunting satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/watch-spacex-launch-nasa-tess-on-a-falcon-9-rocket.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 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.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2018 || May 11 (20:14:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-55.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bangabandhu-1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/bangabandhu-1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches updated version of {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket carrying {{w|Bangladesh}}i {{w|Bangabandhu-1}} Satellite into geostationary orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches new rocket primed for future crewed missions |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex/spacex-launches-new-rocket-primed-for-future-crewed-missions-idUSKBN1IC2J0 |website=reuters.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=BERGER |first1=ERIC |title=After “crazy hard” development, SpaceX’s Block 5 rocket has taken flight |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/spacexs-block-5-rocket-passes-its-first-test-but-final-exams-remain/ |website=arstechnica.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=MACK |first1=ERIC |title=SpaceX launches Block 5 Falcon 9, a radically reusable rocket |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-launches-block-5-falcon-9-reusable-rocket/ |website=cnet.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sparks |first1=Patrick |title=WATCH: SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket launch successful |url=https://www.corsicanadailysun.com/news/watch-spacex-falcon-rocket-launch-successful/article_b3d3fe32-548b-11e8-9c1a-a7e6323ced65.html |website=corsicanadailysun.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2018 || May 22 (19:47:58) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-56.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iridium NEXT-6 / GRACE-FO |url=https://spacex-info.com/iridium-next-6-grace-fo/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches {{w|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 {{w|NASA}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=WATCH SPACEX LAUNCH NASA'S NEXT EARTH-OBSERVING SATELLITES |url=https://www.wired.com/story/watch-spacex-launch-nasas-next-earth-observing-satellites/ |website=wired.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Weitering |first1=Hanneke |title=SpaceX Launches Twin NASA Probes to Track Earth’s Water (and Satellites Hitch a Ride) |url=https://www.space.com/40672-spacex-launches-grace-fo-iridium-satellites.html |website=space.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Coldewey |first1=Devin |title=Watch SpaceX launch the GRACE-FO and Iridium NEXT satellites here |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/22/watch-spacex-launch-the-grace-fo-and-iridium-next-satellites-here/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Potenza |first1=Alessandra |title=SpaceX Falcon 9 launches seven satellites |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-flight-features-seven-satellites/ |website=cbsnews.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || No attempt
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| 2018 || June 4 (04:45:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-57. Falcon 9 launches carrying the geostationary communications satellite {{w|SES-12}}, operated by {{w|SES S.A.}}<ref>{{cite web |title=SES-12 |url=https://spacex-info.com/ses-12/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2018 || June 29 (09:42:42) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-58.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-15 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-15/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX reuses Dragon Cargo Ship and launches aboard a {{w|Falcon 9 Full Thrust}}<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches AI-enabled robot companion, vegetation monitor to space station |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/06/29/spacex-launches-ai-enabled-robot-companion-vegetation-monitor-to-space-station/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> its 15th cargo mission ({{w|SpaceX CRS-15}}) to the {{w|International Space Station}} for {{w|NASA}}, sending up nearly 3 tons of supplies, including coffee, berries and ice cream, mice and the first orbiting robot with artificial intelligence.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX delivers ice cream, mice, AI robot to space station |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/2/spacex-delivers-ice-cream-mice-ai-robot-to-space-s/ |website=washingtontimes.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Malik |first1=Tariq |title=SpaceX Dragon Delivers 'World's Strongest Coffee,' Ice Cream & More to Space Station |url=https://www.space.com/41054-spacex-dragon-delivers-worlds-strongest-coffee-space-station.html |website=space.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=MORRIS |first1=DAVID Z. |title=How to Watch SpaceX’s Dragon Ship Deliver Coffee, Experiments, and a Smiling Robot to the International Space Station |url=http://fortune.com/2018/07/01/how-to-watch-spacex-dragon-dock-international-space-station/ |website=fortune.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Whitwam |first1=Ryan |title=SpaceX Launches Previously Flown Falcon 9 and Dragon Capsule |url=https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/272643-spacex-launches-previously-flown-falcon-9-and-dragon-capsule |website=extremetech.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wall |first1=Mike |title=SpaceX Launches Used Dragon Cargo Ship to Space Station, Flexing Reusability Muscles |url=https://www.space.com/41028-spacex-launches-cargo-mission-space-station.html |website=space.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SPACEX IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH ITS FINAL BLOCK 4 FALCON |url=https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-is-about-to-launch-its-final-block-4-falcon/ |website=wired.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX is sending an AI robot ‘crew member’ to join the astronauts on the space station |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/28/17513410/spacex-iss-nasa-commercial-resupply-15-falcon-9-launch-dragon-watch-live |website=theverge.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:SpaceX CRS-15 Dragon approaches the ISS (2).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Dragon spacecraft on approach to ISS]]
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| 2018 || July 22 (05:50:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-59.<ref>{{cite web |title=Telstar 19 VANTAGE |url=https://spacex-info.com/telstar-19-vantage/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket deploying the {{w|Telstar 19V}} communications satellite for Canada’s {{w|Telesat}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Falcon 9 sets new record with Telstar 19V launch from SLC-40 |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/07/spacex-falcon-9-telstar-19v-launch/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Boyle |first1=Alan |title=SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Telstar 19V satellite and lands on drone ship |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-063442927.html |website=finance.yahoo.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=BOYLE |first1=ALAN |title=SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Telstar 19V satellite and lands on drone ship |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2018/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-telstar-19v-satellite-lands-drone-ship/ |website=geekwire.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lewin |first1=Sarah |title=Watch Live Tonight: SpaceX Launches Telstar Communications Satellite |url=https://www.space.com/41243-spacex-launches-telstar-satellite-watch-live.html |website=space.com |accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:Telstar 19 Vantage Mission (29700000688).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Telstar 19V Launches aboard a {{w|Falcon 9 Block 5}}]]
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| 2018 || July 25 (11:39:26) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-60. Falcon 9 launches carrying 10 [[w:Iridium satellite constellation|Iridium NEXT]] satellites, plus a satellite dispenser.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iridium NEXT-7 |url=https://spacex-info.com/iridium-next-7/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2018 || August 7 (05:18:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-61. Falcon 9 launches carrying {{w|Telkom 4}} (Merah Putih) satellite to {{w|geostationary transfer orbit}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Merah Putih |url=https://spacex-info.com/merah-putih/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} 
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| 2018 || September 10 (04:45:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-62. Falcon 9 launches carrying into orbit the {{w|Telstar 18V}} communication satellite, from the {{w|Telstar}} series of the Canadian satellite communications company {{w|Telesat}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Telstar 18 VANTAGE |url=https://spacex-info.com/telstar-18-vantage/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2018 || September 13 || Contract || SpaceX reports having signed its first customer to fly on the company’s new rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sheridan |first1=Kerry |title=SpaceX announces new plan to send tourist around Moon |url=https://phys.org/news/2018-09-spacex-tourist-moon.html |website=phys.org |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=HARWOOD |first1=WILLIAM |title=SpaceX says Elon Musk to unveil new plans for private citizens to fly to the moon |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-elon-musk-to-unveil-plans-for-private-citizens-to-pilot-moon-missions/ |website=cbsnews.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pasztor |first1=Andy |title=Elon Musk’s SpaceX Says It Signed Up Its First Round-the-Moon Tourist |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-says-it-has-signed-up-its-first-round-the-moon-tourist-1536898342 |website=wsj.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX says it will send someone around the Moon on its future monster rocket |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/13/17857872/spacex-moon-trip-passenger-announcement-bfr |website=theverge.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref> Days later SpaceX reveals that the customer is {{w|Yusaku Maezawa}}, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online clothing retailer.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX will send Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the Moon |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/17/17869990/elon-musk-spacex-lunar-mission-ticket-moon-passenger-bfr-falcon-yusaku-maezawa |website=theverge.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=KOOSER |first1=AMANDA |title=SpaceX reveals mystery moon passenger, and he's a billionaire |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-mystery-moon-passenger-yusaku-maezawa-first-bfr-tourist/ |website=cnet.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Malik |first1=Tariq |title=SpaceX to Unveil 1st Passenger for Private BFR Moon Trip Tonight! How to Watch |url=https://www.space.com/41853-spacex-bfr-moon-passenger-flight-reveal-webcast.html |website=space.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Koerner |first1=Claudia |title=Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Has Signed Up To Be SpaceX's First Tourist |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-spacex |website=buzzfeednews.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref> || ||
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| 2018 || October 8 (02:21:28) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-63.<ref>{{cite web |title=SAOCOM 1A |url=https://spacex-info.com/saocom-1a/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launches from {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}}, successfully delivering {{w|Argentina}}'s {{w|SAOCOM}}-1A Earth-observation satellite to orbit. The rocket lands for the first time back at its California launch site.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wall |first1=Mike |title=SpaceX Aces First-Ever Rocket Landing in California After Spectacular Satellite Launch |url=https://www.space.com/42056-spacex-aces-1st-california-rocket-landing-saocom-1a-launch.html |website=space.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Vera |first1=Nathalie |title=SpaceX's Elon Musk celebrates successful rocket launch at Lompoc bar |url=https://www.keyt.com/news/santa-maria-north-county/spacex-s-elon-musk-celebrates-successful-rocket-launch-at-lompoc-bar-1/804638678 |website=keyt.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chowdhury |first1=Hasan |title=Elon Musk's SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket in California for the first time |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/08/elon-musks-spacex-lands-falcon-9-rocket-california-first-time/ |website=telegraph.co.uk |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=EPIC ROCKET LAUNCH |url=https://www.tmz.com/2018/10/08/elon-musk-spacex-rocket-launch-los-angeles-falcon-nine-lands-booster/ |website=tmz.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ({{w|SpaceX Landing Zone 4}}), {{w|California}} || [[File:SAOCOMPLO2.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Mockup of the SAOCOM satellite]]
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| 2018 || November 15 || Permission grant || The U.S. {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Is About to Launch More Than 7,000 Internet-Beaming Satellites |url=http://time.com/5456083/elon-musk-spacex-satellites/ |website=time.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Grush |first1=Loren |title=FCC approves SpaceX’s plan to launch more than 7,000 internet-beaming satellites |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18096943/spacex-fcc-starlink-satellites-approval-constellation-internet-from-space |website=theverge.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=BRODKIN |first1=JON |title=FCC tells SpaceX it can deploy up to 11,943 broadband satellites |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/spacex-gets-fcc-approval-for-7500-more-broadband-satellites/ |website=arstechnica.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref> || ||
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| 2018 || November 15 (20:46:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-64.<ref>{{cite web |title=Es’hail-2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/eshail-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref>SpaceX launches and lands another used Falcon 9 rocket, carrying {{w|Es'hail-2}} communications satellite built by {{w|Mitsubishi}} and owned by the nation of {{w|Qatar}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grush |first1=Loren |title=SpaceX launched and landed another used Falcon 9 rocket |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18095633/spacex-launch-landing-falcon-9-watch-live-stream-used-rocket-how-to |website=theverge.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wall |first1=Mike |title=A Used SpaceX Rocket Just Launched a Satellite for Qatar, Then Aced a Landing |url=https://www.space.com/42446-spacex-rocket-launches-eshail-2-satellite-aces-landing.html |website=space.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket  from Space Coast and lands it |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/national/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-rocket-from-space-coast-and-lands/fT4G9DLYl8yJjJ4YKRKZLO/ |website=ajc.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Graham |first1=William |title=SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Es’Hail-2 from 39A |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/11/spacex-falcon-9-launch-eshail-2-39a/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:Es'hail-2 Mission (32040174268).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Launch of Falcon 9 flight 63 carrying Es'hail-2]]
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| 2018 || December 3 (18:34:05) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-65. Falcon 9 launches carrying 64 small satellites.<ref>{{cite web |title=SSO-A: SmallSat Express |url=https://spacex-info.com/sso-a-smallsat-express/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches swarm of satellites, flies rocket for third time |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/03/spacex-launches-swarm-of-satellites-re-flies-rocket-for-third-time/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]]), {{w|California}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2018 || December 5 (18:16:16) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-66.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-16 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-16/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-16}} {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission is launched aboard a {{w|Falcon 9 Full Thrust}}, carrying to the {{w|International Space Station}} more than 2 tons of crew supplies, science investigations and equipment for {{w|NASA}} {{w|Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation}} mission.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Launches Dragon Cargo Ship to Space Station, But Misses Rocket Landing |url=https://www.space.com/42629-spacex-dragon-launch-missed-landing-crs16.html |website=space.com |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:SpaceX CRS-16 Dragon approaches the ISS (2).jpg|thumb|center|150px|The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft]]
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| 2018 || December 23 (13:51:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-67.<ref>{{cite web |title=GPS III-2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/gps-iii-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying the first advanced, next-generation "GPS III" satellite, built by {{w|Lockheed Martin}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wall |first1=Mike |title=SpaceX Launches Super-Accurate Next-Gen GPS Satellite for US Air Force |url=https://www.space.com/42774-spacex-launches-next-gen-gps-satellite.html |website=space.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dean |first1=James |title=SpaceX shooting for Sunday morning launch from Cape Canaveral after third scrub |url=https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/spacex/2018/12/22/spacex-shooting-sunday-morning-launch-after-third-scrub/2396319002/ |website=floridatoday.com |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX record-breaking rocket launched in Florida |url=https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/spacex-recordbreaking-rocket-launched-in-florida/news-story/440302bb799c77e0a2ec25748b6e7d85 |website=news.com.au |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches Air Force’s best GPS yet, ends banner year |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/spacex-launches-air-forces-best-gps-yet-ends-banner-year |website=pbs.org |accessdate=13 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 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."<ref>{{cite web |title='SpaceX must become leaner': Elon Musk's $30.5billion company will lay off 10 percent of workforce to avoid bankruptcy as they predict 'extremely difficult challenges' in Mars mission and internet development |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6583777/SpaceX-lay-10-percent-workforce.html |website=dailymail.co.uk |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Reportedly to Lay Off About 10 Percent of Workforce |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/spacex-reportedly-to-lay-off-about-10-percent-of-workforce-/4739980.html |website=voanews.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX will lay off hundreds to ‘become a leaner company’ |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/11/spacex-will-lay-off-hundreds-to-become-a-leaner-company/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX is laying off 10 percent of its workforce |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/11/18179258/spacex-layoffs-10-percent-work-force-dragon-capsule-satellite-internet-starship |website=theverge.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref> || ||
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| 2019 || January 11 (15:31:33) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-68.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iridium NEXT-8 |url=https://spacex-info.com/iridium-next-8/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches its first Falcon 9 rocket of the year, sending up 10 satellites for long-time customer {{w|Iridium Communications}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grush |first1=Loren |title=SpaceX successfully launched its first mission of the year — and its last for customer Iridium |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/11/18177186/spacex-falcon-9-iridium-8-next-constellation-launch-watch-live |website=theverge.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bartels |first1=Meghan |title=SpaceX Launches 10 Iridium Satellites Into Orbit, Then Sticks Rocket Landing |url=https://www.space.com/42977-spacex-rocket-launches-final-iridium-satellites-then-lands.html |website=space.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches final batch of next-generation satellites |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/11/tech/spacex-iridium-satellite/index.html |website=edition.cnn.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=We have liftoff! SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket |url=https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article224285120.html |website=sanluisobispo.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2019 || January || Financial (funding) || SpaceX raises US$273.2 million from a large number of investors including {{w|Founders Fund}}, 137 Ventures, and Scott Banister, in Series J funding round, reaching a valuation of US$28 billion.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2019 || February 19 || Contract || SpaceX secures a US$297 million contract from the {{w|United States Air Force}} to launch another three national security missions, all slated to launch no earlier than FY 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Air Force awards $739 million in launch contracts to ULA and SpaceX |url=https://spacenews.com/air-force-awards-739-million-in-launch-contracts-to-ula-and-spacex/ |website=SpaceNews |access-date=12 May 2022 |date=19 February 2019}}</ref> || ||
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| 2019 || February 22 (01:45:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-70.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nusantara Satu |url=https://spacex-info.com/nusantara-satu/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches privately funded Israeli moon lander, Indonesian comsat |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launch-spacex-falcon-9-carries-privately-funded-israeli-moon-lander-indonesian-comsat-watch-live-stream-today/ |website=cbsnews.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=After SpaceX Launch, Israeli Spacecraft Begins Journey to the Moon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/science/spacex-launch-israel.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Watch SpaceX launch the first private moon landing mission (Update: Success!) |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/watch-spacex-launch-the-first-private-moon-landing-mission/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Is About To Launch Israel's First Ever Mission To The Moon |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/02/20/spacex-is-about-to-launch-israels-first-ever-mission-to-the-moon/#7715190d38ea |website=forbes.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Israel flying to moon after SpaceX launch |url=https://www.apnews.com/6f15de2ca29044c39213144a40663548 |website=apnews.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2019 || March 2 (07:49:03) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} technology demonstration) || Mission N° F9-69.<ref>{{cite web |title=Crew Dragon Demo 1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/crew-dragon-demo-1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|Crew Dragon Demo-1}} launches as the first orbital test of the [[w:Crew Dragon|Dragon 2]] spacecraft, in an uncrewed mission.<ref>{{cite web |title=Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |url=https://fcc.report/ELS/Space-Exploration-Technologies-Corp/0068-EX-ST-2019 |website=fcc.report |accessdate=10 June 2020}}</ref> On March 3, the [[w:Dragon 2|Crew Dragon]] docks with the {{w|International Space Station}}, becoming the first American spacecraft to autonomously dock with the orbiting laboratory.<ref name="other planets"/> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:CARGO DRAGON 2.jpg|thumb|center|120px]]
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| 2019 || March 29 || {{w|Elon Musk}} biography || {{w|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 [[w:Starship (rocket)|Starship]] with a minimalist payload of {{w|Starlink}} satellites modified for interplanetary cruises and high-resolution cameras.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX CEO Elon Musk proposes Starship, Starlink tech for Solar System tour |url=https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-starlink-solar-system-tour/ |website=teslarati.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2019 || April 3 || Mission (test) ([[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship]]) || A test version of SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft, the [[w:Starship (rocket)|Starship]], successfully ignites its onboard engine for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX just fired up the engine on its test Starship vehicle for the first time |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18271547/spacex-starship-starhopper-raptor-engine-ignition-hop-static-fire-test |website=theverge.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX has completed the first tethered hop for the ‘Starhopper’ |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/03/spacex-has-completed-the-first-tethered-hop-for-the-starhopper/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Get an up-close look at SpaceX's latest Starhopper test |url=https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/06/spacex-starhopper/ |website=engadget.com |accessdate=15 April 2019}}</ref> || {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}}, {{w|Texas}} || ||[[File:BFR at stage separation 2-2018.jpg|thumb|center|170px|Artist's concept of an earlier version of Starship upper stage following stage separation]]
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| 2019 || April 5 || Mission (test) ([[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship]]) || In a nighttime test, {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX's Starhopper Prototype for Starship Reaches End of Its Rope In Test Hop |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starhopper-test-hop-end-of-tether.html |website=space.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Elon Musk: SpaceX Starhopper lifts off (a little bit) |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-starhopper-lifts-off-a-little-bit/ |website=cnet.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref>  || {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}} ||
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| 2019 || April 11 (22:35:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° FH-02.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arabsat-6A |url=https://spacex-info.com/arabsat-6a/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|Falcon Heavy}} launches carrying into orbit the {{w|Arabsat-6A}} satellite, operated by the {{w|Arab Satellite Communications Organization}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches on first commercial flight |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/spacex-s-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-first-commercial-flight-ncna993201 |website=nbcnews.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || B5 B1055 [[w:Booster (rocketry)|booster]] landing at ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}, B5 B1052.1 [[w:Booster (rocketry)|booster]] landing at {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|LZ-1]]), B5 B1053.1 [[w:Booster (rocketry)|booster]] landing at {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|LZ-2]]) || [[File:Arabsat-6A Mission (40628438523).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Launch of Arabsat-6A on {{w|Falcon Heavy}}]]
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| 2019 || April 12 || Contract || {{w|NASA}} announces a launch services contract with SpaceX for the {{w|Double Asteroid Redirection Test}} (DART) {{w|space probe}}. The launch is scheduled for June 2021 on a {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket. The total cost to launch DART is about US$69 million.<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA is paying SpaceX $69 million to crash a rocket into an asteroid |url=https://newsvoice.com/i/3534964 |website=newsvoice.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NASA is paying SpaceX $69M to crash a rocket into an asteroid |url=https://thenextweb.com/insider/2019/04/13/nasa-is-paying-spacex-69m-to-crash-a-rocket-into-an-asteroid/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NASA is paying SpaceX $69M to crash a rocket into an asteroid |url=https://search.audioburst.com/burst/RaKg7R3oNPPD/2019/4/13/NASA_is_paying_SpaceX_$69M_to_crash_a_rocket_into_an_asteroid |website=search.audioburst.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}}, {{w|California}} ||
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| 2019 || April 20 || Mission (failed test) || A [[w:SpaceX Dragon 2|SpaceX Crew Dragon]] capsule explodes during tests being carried out on the ground.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lost after 'anomaly' during ground test|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200406-spacex-crew-dragon-capsule-lost-after-anomaly-during-ground-test/ |website=newscientist.com |accessdate=7 July 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}}, {{w|Florida}} ||
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| 2019 || April 30 || Contract || The United States {{w|Federal Communications Commission}} grants a request by SpaceX to begin launching spacecraft for the company’s {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Stephen |title=FCC approves SpaceX’s plan to operate Starlink satellites at lower altitude |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/04/30/fcc-approves-spacexs-plan-to-operate-starlink-satellites-at-lower-altitude/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=FCC approves SpaceX’s revised Starlink satellite plan; first wave gets set for liftoff |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2019/fcc-approves-spacexs-revised-starlink-satellite-plan-first-wave-gets-set-liftoff/ |website=geekwire.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2019 || May 4, 06:48:58 UTC || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-71.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-17 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-17/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-17}} {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission launches aboard a {{w|Falcon 9}} toward the {{w|International Space Station}} for resupply, carrying {{w|NASA}}'s {{w|Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches space station resupply mission, lands rocket on drone ship |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/05/04/spacex-launches-space-station-resupply-mission-lands-rocket-on-drone-ship/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Ocean ({{w|Autonomous spaceport drone ship}}) || [[File:ISS-59 SpaceX CRS-17 Dragon approaches the ISS (5).jpg|thumb|center|150px|The SpaceX CRS-17 Dragon approaching to the ISS for RMS capture.]]
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| 2019 || May 9 || Competition || {{w|Jeff Bezos}} unveils {{w|Blue Origin}}'s vision for space and also plans for a moon lander known as "[[w:Blue Moon (spacecraft)|Blue Moon]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Jeff Bezos Unveils Blue Origin’s Vision for Space, and a Moon Lander |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/science/jeff-bezos-moon.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=8 July 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 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.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2019 || May 24, 02:30:00 UTC || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-72.<ref>{{cite web |title=Starlink v0.9 |url=https://spacex-info.com/starlink-v0-9/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX launches a batch of 60 {{w|Starlink}} internet communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Internet Satellites Into Orbit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/science/spacex-launch.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches new legal battle against U.S. Air Force |url=https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-new-legal-battle-against-u-s-air-force/ |website=spacenews.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX’s new satellites will dodge collisions autonomously (and they’d better) |url=https://qz.com/1627570/how-autonomous-are-spacexs-starlink-satellites/ |website=qz.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Ocean ({{w|Autonomous spaceport drone ship}}) || [[File:Starlink Mission (47926144123).jpg|thumb|center|150px|60 Starlink satellites stacked together before deployment]]
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| 2019 || May 31 || Financial (valuation) || SpaceX valuation rises to US$33.3 billion, surpassing in worth to {{w|Tesla, Inc.}}<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX valuation rises to $33.3 billion as investors look to satellite opportunity |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/spacex-valuation-33point3-billion-after-starlink-satellites-fundraising.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now worth more than Tesla |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/elon-musk-spacex-is-now-worth-more-than-tesla.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2019 || May || Elon Musk biography || {{w|Elon Musk}} floats the idea of using single-stage [[w:SpaceX Starship|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."<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to use Starships as Earth-to-Earth transports |url=https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-elon-musk-wants-starship-spaceliners/ |website=teslarati.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2019 || June 12 (14:17:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-73.<ref>{{cite web |title=RADARSAT Constellation |url=https://spacex-info.com/radarsat-constellation/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Falcon 9 launches carrying the {{w|RADARSAT Constellation}}, a three-spacecraft fleet of {{w|Earth observation satellite}}s operated by the {{w|Canadian Space Agency}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mission milestones |url=https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat/updates.asp |website=asc-csa.gc.ca |accessdate=17 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Timeline of the Falcon 9 rocket’s launch of the Radarsat Constellation Mission |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/06/12/timeline-of-the-falcon-9-rockets-launch-of-the-radarsat-constellation-mission/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=17 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ({{w|SpaceX Landing Zone 4}}), {{w|California}}
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| 2019 || June 25 (06:30:00) || Mission ({{w|Communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° FH-03.<ref>{{cite web |title=STP-2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/stp-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|NASA}}'s {{w|Green Propellant Infusion Mission}} launches aboard {{w|Falcon Heavy}} carrying 24 satellites for the {{w|United States Department of Defense}} ({{w|Space Test Program}}) and other customers. {{w|Elon Musk}} calls this mission SpaceX’s “most difficult launch ever.”<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Deploys Dozens of Satellites to Orbit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/science/falcon-heavy-spacex-launch.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=5 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Falcon Heavy: Elon Musk's rocket company launches its 'most difficult' mission to date |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/24/tech/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch/index.html |website=edition.cnn.com |accessdate=5 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX loses Falcon Heavy’s center core in an otherwise successful launch |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18743998/spacex-falcon-heavy-center-core-crash |website=theverge.com |accessdate=5 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ({{w|Landing Zones 1 and 2}}), {{w|Florida}}
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| 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.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || || 
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| 2019 || July 25 (22:01:56) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-74.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-18 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-18/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-18}} ressupply mission launches toward the {{w|International Space Station}}, for the first time reusing a [[w:SpaceX Dragon|Dragon Capsule]] for a third flight.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Launches Used Dragon Capsule on Historic 3rd Cargo Run to Space Station |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-crs-18-launch-third-dragon-flight.html |website=space.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:CRS-18 Mission (48380511427).jpg|thumb|center|150px|{{w|Falcon 9 Block 5}} landing during CRS-18 Mission]]
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| 2019 || July 25 || Mission (test) ([[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship]]) || SpaceX Starship (Starhopper) launches for the first time. The rocket makes its first free-flying test launch at [[w:SpaceX South Texas Launch Site|SpaceX's Boca Chica]] proving ground in South Texas.<ref>{{cite web |title=Starhopper successfully conducts debut Boca Chica Hop |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/07/spacex-resume-starhopper-tests/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX’s Starship prototype has taken flight for the first time |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/spacexs-starship-prototype-has-taken-flight-for-the-first-time/ |website=arstechnica.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Starship Prototype Takes 1st Free-Flying Test Hop |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starhopper-first-untethered-hop-success.html |website=space.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}}, {{w|Texas}} || || [[File:SpaceX Starhopper.jpg|thumb|center|120px|SpaceX Starhopper]]
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| 2019 || August 6 (23:23:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-75.<ref>{{cite web |title=AMOS-17 |url=https://spacex-info.com/amos-17/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9}} launches carrying Israeli commercial {{w|communication satellite}} {{w|AMOS-17}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=AMOS-17 launch, Eastern Range debuts rapid launch support |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/08/amos-17-launch-debut-ranges-rapid-support/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt
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| 2019 || August 27 (22:00:00) || Mission (test) ([[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship]]) || SpaceX [[w:SpaceX Starship|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 {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}} in {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Starhopper Rocket Prototype Aces Highest (and Final) Test Flight |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starhopper-aces-final-test-launch-landing.html |website=space.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}} || {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}} nearby landing pad
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| 2019 || October 3 || Financial (funding) || SpaceX receives a US$3 million grant from {{w|NASA}}.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2019 || November 11 (14:56:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-76.<ref>{{cite web |title=Starlink-1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/starlink-1/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Falcon 9 launches carrying a payload of 60 {{w|Starlink}} satellites.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX and Cape Canaveral Return to Action with First Operational Starlink Mission |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/11/spacex-cape-return-first-operational-starlink-mission/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2019 || December 5 (17:29:24) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-77.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-19 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-19/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|SpaceX CRS-19}} {{w|Commercial Resupply Service}} mission reuses [[w:SpaceX Dragon C106|Dragon C106]] (first launched on September 21, 2014) aboard {{w|Falcon 9}}, delivering cargo toward the {{w|International Space Station}} for resupply.<ref>{{cite web |title=Falcon 9 launches Dragon cargo spacecraft to ISS |url=https://spacenews.com/falcon-9-launches-dragon-cargo-spacecraft-to-iss-2/ |website=spacenews.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:Spacex crs-19 launch.jpg|thumb|center|150px]]
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| 2019 || December 17 (00:10:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-78.<ref>{{cite web |title=JCSAT-18 / Kacific-1 |url=https://spacex-info.com/jcsat-18/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Falcon 9 launches carrying  heavyweight JCSAT-18 and [[w:Kacific Broadband Satellites|Kacific1]] satellites into orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Heavyweight Satellite Into Orbit, Nails Rocket Landing |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-falcon-9-jcsat-18-launch-landing-success.html |website=space.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2020 || January 7 (02:19:21) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-79.<ref>{{cite web |title=Starlink-2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/starlink-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Falcon 9 launches carrying sixty more satellites for SpaceX’s {{w|Starlink}} global {{w|internet}} network.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, tests design change for astronomers |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/07/spacex-launches-more-starlink-satellites-tests-design-change-for-astronomers/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2020 || January 19 (15:30:00) || Mission (launch) || Mission N° F9-80<ref>{{cite web |title=Crew Dragon In-flight Abort |url=https://spacex-info.com/inflight-abort/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> ({{w|Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test}}) is conducted. SpaceX simulates an in-flight emergency to verify if the company’s [[w:Dragon 2|Crew Dragon]] spacecraft has the capability to catapult itself away from a failing {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket. Following the ejection of Crew Dragon C205, Falcon 9 booster B1046 is destroyed by aerodynamic forces, as intended.<ref>{{cite web |title=Live coverage: SpaceX successfully performs Crew Dragon abort test |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/17/falcon-9-crew-dragon-in-flight-abort-test-mission-status-center/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || No attempt || [[File:Booster Explosion during SpaceX's In Flight Abort.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Booster explosion during SpaceX's in flight abort]]
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| 2020 || January 29 (14:06:00) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-81.<ref>{{cite web |title=Starlink-3 |url=https://spacex-info.com/starlink-3/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Falcon 9 launches carrying fourth batch of {{w|Starlink}} satellites, deployed in a circular 290km orbit. A total of 60 satellites are delivered.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches fourth batch of Starlink satellites, tweaks satellite design |url=https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-fourth-batch-of-starlink-satellites-tweaks-satellite-design/ |website=spacenews.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites, catches a fairing [Updated] |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/weather-permitting-spacex-to-launch-third-starlink-mission-monday-morning/ |website=arstechnica.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX and Cape Canaveral Return to Action with First Operational Starlink Mission |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/11/spacex-cape-return-first-operational-starlink-mission/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2020 || February 4 || Contract || SpaceX is selected by {{w|NASA}} to provide launch services for the agency’s {{w|Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem}} (PACE) mission.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Wins Launch Contract for NASA PACE Mission |url=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2020/02/04/spacex-wins-launch-contract-for-nasa-pace-mission/ |website=parabolicarc.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:PACE Spacecraft beauty2.jpg|thumb|center|150px|An artist's concept of NASA's PACE spacecraft in orbit.]]
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| 2020 || February 11 || Team || SpaceX announces that aerospace engineer {{w|William H. Gerstenmaier}} has joined the company as a consultant.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX brings on NASA’s former top spaceflight official as it prepares to launch first astronauts |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/11/spacex-hires-former-nasa-official-william-gerstenmaier.html |website=cnbc.com |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Gerstenmaier.jpg|thumb|center|120px|William H. Gerstenmaier]]
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| 2020 || February 17 (15:05:55) || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-82.<ref>{{cite web |title=Starlink-4 |url=https://spacex-info.com/starlink-4/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Falcon 9 launches carrying to orbit a total of 60 Starlink satellites for new megaconstellation. The mission misses rocket landing.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites for new megaconstellation, misses rocket landing |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-4-launch-success-misses-rocket-landing.html |website=space.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX successfully conducts fifth Starlink launch – booster misses drone ship |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/02/spacex-falcon-reusability-record-fifth-starlink-launch/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || Failed landing at ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2020 || February 28 || Contract || SpaceX is awarded launch contract for {{w|NASA}}’s 2022 mission to explore the mineral-rich asteroid {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX wins the $117 million launch contract to explore Psyche’s heavy metal asteroid |url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/28/spacex-wins-the-117-million-launch-contract-to-explore-psyches-heavy-metal-asteroid/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || February 28 || Mission (failed test) ([[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship]]) || {{w|SpaceX Starship}} SN1 prototype explodes during pressure test.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX's Starship SN1 prototype appears to burst during pressure test |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn1-prototype-bursts-videos.html |website=space.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX’s Starship SN1 prototype blows up during pressure test on its Texas pad |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2020/spacexs-starship-sn1-prototype-blows-pressure-test-texas-pad/ |website=geekwire.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || March 7 (04:50:31) || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || Mission N° F9-83.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragon CRS-20 |url=https://spacex-info.com/dragon-crs-20/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> SpaceX conducts last launch of phase 1 of the CRS contract ({{w|SpaceX CRS-20}}), carrying ''Bartolomeo'', an {{w|ESA}} platform for hosting external payloads onto {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/bartolomeo.htm|title=Bartolomeo (CEPHFISS)|website=space.skyrocket.de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=CRS-20 – Final Dragon 1 arrives at the ISS |url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/03/spacex-final-dragon-1-mission-iss/ |website=nasaspaceflight.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX CRS-20 Mission |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-20_mission_overview.pdf |website=nasa.gov |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Landing Zones 1 and 2|Landing Zone 1]]), {{w|Florida}} || [[File:CRS-20 Dragon.jpg|thumb|center|150px|C112 approaches the ISS]]
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| 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.<ref name="SpaceX Funding Rounds"/> || ||
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| 2020 || March 18 (12:16:39) || Mission ({{w|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 {{w|Merlin 1D}} variant and first since the CRS-1 mission in October 2012. However, the payload still manages to reach the targeted orbit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yeah. There was also an early engine shutdown on ascent, but it didn’t affect orbit insertion. Shows value of having 9 engines! Thorough investigation needed before next mission.|url=https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240262636547100672|date=8 June 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/spacex-engine-issue-on-last-starlink-mission-caused-by-cleaning-fluid-according-to-elon-musk/|title=SpaceX engine issue on last Starlink mission caused by cleaning fluid according to Elon Musk|date=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:SpaceX Testing Merlin 1D Engine In Texas.jpg|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX testing Merlin 1D Engine]]
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| 2020 || April 22 (19:30:00) || Milestone mark achievement || Mission N° F9-85.<ref>{{cite web |title=Starlink-6 |url=https://spacex-info.com/starlink-6/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> Falcon 9 launches carrying 60 {{w|Starlink}} satellites. The SpaceX’s Starlink network surpasses 400-satellite mark after successful launch.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX’s Starlink network surpasses 400-satellite mark after successful launch |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/22/spacexs-starlink-network-surpasses-400-satellite-mark-after-successful-launch/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2020 || April 26 || Mission (test) ([[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship]]) || {{w|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 {{w|liquid nitrogen}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX’s Starship rocket just breathed fire for the first time (and survived) |url=https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-survives-raptor-static-fire/ |website=teslarati.com |accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || April 30 || Competition || {{w|Blue Origin}}'s [[w:Blue Moon (spacecraft)|Blue Moon Lander]] is selected by {{w|NASA}} as a winner of the Human Lander Systems award under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2), besting competitive companies, {{w|SpaceX}} and {{w|Dynetics}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nasa names companies to develop Moon landers for human missions |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52465585 |website=bbc.com/ |accessdate=8 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NASA Picks Moon Lander Designs by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Rocket Companies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/science/nasa-moon-lander.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=8 July 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || May 1 || Contract || SpaceX is selected by {{w|NASA}} to develop a lunar optimized starship to transport crew between lunar orbit and the surface of the {{w|Moon}} as part of NASA’s {{w|Artemis program}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA SELECTS LUNAR OPTIMIZED STARSHIP |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/nasa-selects-lunar-optimized-starship/ |website=spacex.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landers for Artemis Moon Missions |url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-names-companies-to-develop-human-landers-for-artemis-moon-missions |website=nasa.gov |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NASA awards lunar lander contracts to Blue Origin, Dynetics—and Starship |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/nasa-awards-lunar-lander-contracts-to-blue-origin-dynetics-and-starship/ |website=arstechnica.com |accessdate=16 June 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Artemis program (original with wordmark).svg|thumb|center|150px]]
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| 2020 || May 1 || Team safety || SpaceX's chief operating officer {{w|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 {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX COO outlines SpaceX's Covid-19 response, striking contrast with Elon Musk |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/01/tech/spacex-covid-19-crew-dragon-gwynne-shotwell/index.html |website=edition.cnn.com |access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || May || Notable comment || {{w|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.”<ref name="Elon Musk Is the Her">{{cite web |title=Elon Musk Is the Hero America Deserves |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-22/elon-musk-speaks-frankly-on-coronavirus-spacex-and-rage-tweets |website=bloomberg.com |accessdate=7 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Elon Musk Says It's Currently Too Expensive for Self-Sustaining City on Mars |url=https://comicbook.com/irl/news/elon-musk-self-sustaining-mars-city-too-expensive-at-moment/ |website=comicbook.com |accessdate=7 July 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Map spacex sites.png|thumb|center|150px]]
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| 2020 || May 23 || Notable comment || {{w|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 {{w|Mars}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elon Musk Says It is Presently Too Costly for Self-Sustaining Metropolis on Mars |url=https://fooshya.com/2020/05/24/elon-musk-says-it-is-presently-too-costly-for-self-sustaining-metropolis-on-mars/ |website=fooshya.com |accessdate=7 July 2020}}</ref> || || || [[File:Elon Musk in Mission Control at SpaceX.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Elon Musk in Mission Control at SpaceX]]
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| 2020 || May 30 (19:22:00) || Milestone mission ({{w|ISS}} [[w:human spaceflight|crew transport]]) || Mission N° F9-87.<ref>{{cite web |title=Crew Dragon Demo 2 |url=https://spacex-info.com/crew-dragon-demo-2/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> {{w|Crew Dragon Demo-2}} launches as a crewed {{w|flight test}}, transporting {{w|astronaut}}s {{w|Doug Hurley}} and {{w|Bob Behnken}} toward the {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX successfully launches Nasa astronauts into orbit |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/30/spacex-nasa-crewed-spaceflight-launch-dragon-capsule-elon-musk-trump |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> This mission marks the beginning of a SpaceX {{w|human spaceflight}} era<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA, SpaceX to Launch First Astronauts to Space Station from U.S. Since 2011 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/specials/dm2/ |website=nasa.gov |accessdate=8 July 2020}}</ref>, and the first American crewed mission in years since the conclusion of the {{w|Space Shuttle Program}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Commercial Crew SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 (CREWED) |url=https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2020/may/rocket-launch-commercial-crew-spacex |website=kennedyspacecenter.com |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} || [[File:Crew Dragon Demo-2 Bob and Doug.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Behnken (left) and Hurley (right)]]
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| 2020 || June 3, 9:25 p.m. EDT || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX eighth Starlink mission is conducted. {{w|Falcon 9}} carrying 60 {{w|Starlink}} satellites into orgbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-06-03-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=6 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites and lands rocket in dazzling nighttime liftoff |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-launch-success-june-2020.html |website=space.com |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ||
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|  2020 || June 4, 01:25:33 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || Mission N° F9-86<ref>{{cite web |title=Starlink-7 |url=https://spacex-info.com/starlink-7/ |website=spacex-info.com |accessdate=13 June 2020}}</ref> (Starlink-7 mission). Falcon 9 launches carrying a batch of 60 {{w|Starlink}} broadband satellites, including one with a deployable sunshield meant to test out a new way to reduce the brightness of future satellites.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches eighth Starlink mission, first VisorSat satellite |url=https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-eighth-starlink-mission-first-visorsat-satellite/ |website=spacenews.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches first paid mission and lands all three boosters |url=https://wreg.com/news/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-launches-first-paid-mission-and-lands-all-three-boosters/ |website=wreg.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2199104-spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-has-flown-its-first-commercial-flight/ |website=newscientist.com |accessdate=4 June 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} 
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| 2020 || June 13, 9:21 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX launches its ninth Starlink mission, with {{w|Falcon 9}} carrying 58 {{w|Starlink}} satellites and three of Planet's SkySats. This mission marked SpaceX’s first SmallSat Rideshare Program launch."<ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-06-13-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=6 January 2021}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || June 30, 20:10 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9}} launches, carrying the United States Space Force's GPS III Space Vehicle 03 mission, an advanced GPS satellite delivery.<ref>{{cite web |title=GPS III SPACE VEHICLE 03 MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/gps3-mission-06-30-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=6 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Just Read the Instructions'' (JRtI) {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}} 
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| 2020 || July 20 || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9}} launches carrying South Korean military/government communications satellite {{w|ANASIS-II}} into orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=ANASIS-II MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/anasis-ii-mission-07-20-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=5 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} ||
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| 2020 || August 2 || Mission || SpaceX Crew Dragon splashes down successfully in the {{w|Gulf of Mexico}}, with {{w|NASA}} astronauts {{w|Bob Behnken}} and {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=RETURNING HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/return-human-spaceflight-america-08-02-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File:SpaceX Demo-2 Landing (NHQ202008020039).jpg|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Demo-2 landing]]
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| 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARSHIP TAKES FLIGHT |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starship-150m-hop/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=5 January 2021}}</ref>  [[w:SpaceX Starship|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Performed Successful 150 Meter Hop With Starship Prototype |url=https://www.flyinginsight.com/2020/08/05/spacex-performed-successful-150-meter-hop-with-starship-prototype-video/ |website=flyinginsight.com |access-date=31 December 2020}}</ref> || {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}}, {{w|Texas}} || || [[File:SpaceX SN5 Starship 150m Hop & Powerslide.jpg|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Starship SN5 during a flight test, August 2020.]]
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| 2020 || August 7, 5:12 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX launches its tenth Starlink mission, with {{w|Falcon 9}} delivering 57 {{w|Starlink}} satellites and 2 satellites from BlackSky, a Spaceflight customer.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-08-06-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=5 January 2021}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || August 18, 10:31 a.m. EDT || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX launched its eleventh Starlink mission, with {{w|Falcon 9}} delivering 58 Starlink satellites and three of Planet’s SkySats.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-08-18-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=5 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} ||
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| 2020 || August 30, 23:19 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9 Block 5}} launches carrying Argentine earth-observation satellite {{w|SAOCOM}} 1B, plus two secondary payloads for PlanetiQ and {{w|Tyvak}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches Earth-observation satellite for Argentina, nails rocket landing |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-saocom-1b-launch-rocket-landing-success.html |website=space.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SAOCOM-1B |url=https://everydayastronaut.com/falcon-9-block-5-saocom-1b/ |website=everydayastronaut.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Live coverage: SpaceX launches radar satellite for Argentina |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/08/30/falcon-9-saocom-1b-mission-status-center/ |website=spaceflightnow.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File:Facing SAOCOM 1B.jpg|thumb|center|150px|SAOCOM 1B]]
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| 2020 || September 3, 12:46 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX launches its twelfth Starlink mission, with {{w|Falcon 9}} delivering 60 {{w|Starlink}} satellites to orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-09-03-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || 
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| 2020 || September 3 || Mission (test) || SpaceX launches [[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship SN6]] prototype, in a brief uncrewed test flight of a rocket designed for eventual trips to the moon and Mars.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches Starship SN6 prototype test flight on heels of Starlink mission |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn6-first-test-flight.html |website=space.com |access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> || {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}}, {{w|Texas}} || 
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| 2020 || September 25 || Contract || The United States Space Force’s {{w|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."<ref>{{cite web |title=SPACE FORCE SELECTS SPACEX’S PROVEN CAPABILITIES |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/spaceforce-selection-09-25-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || October 6, 11:29 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX delivers its 13th batch of Starlink satellites, with {{w|Falcon 9}} carrying 60 satellites to orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-10-06-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites and lands rocket at sea |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-12-internet-satellites-launch |website=space.com |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} ||
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| 2020 || October 18, 12:25 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9}} launches carrying 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-10-18-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} ||
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| 2020 || October 20, 6:21 UTC || Mission (test) || SpaceX conducts the first static fire, with [[w:SpaceX Starship|Starship SN8]] igniting all three of its [[w:SpaceX Raptor|Raptor]]s’ preburners. Two hours later, with no break in between, the steel rocket prototype fully ignites all three Raptor engines for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Starship fires up three Raptor engines in prelude to high-altitude flight |url=https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-three-raptor-static-fire-flight-test/ |website=teslarati.com |access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || October 24, 11:31 UTC || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches carrying 60 Starlink satellites to orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION - SPACEX’S 100TH SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-10-24-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} ||
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| 2020 || November 5, 6:24 p.m. EST || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9}} launches the GPS III Space Vehicle 04, completing its second mission of the year for the {{w|United States Space Force}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=GPS III SPACE VEHICLE 04 MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/gps3-mission-11-05-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} ||
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| 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 {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA CERTIFIES SPACEX FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/nasa-certification-11-10-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || || ||
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| 2020 || November 16 || Mission (test) || {{w|SpaceX Crew-1}} launches on [[w:SpaceX Dragon 2|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 {{w|International Space Station}} in the {{w|Commercial Crew Program}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=CREW-1 MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/crew-1-docks-to-iss/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || || || [[File:SpaceX Crew-1 logo.png|thumb|center|120px|SpaceX Crew-1 logo]]
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| 2020 || November 21 || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches carrying into orbit the oceanography satellite {{w|Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich}}, an advanced ocean-mapping satellite developed by {{w|NASA}}, the {{w|European Space Agency}}, and weather agencies.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches advanced ocean-mapping satellite for NASA and Europe, nails rocket landing |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-launches-sentinel-6-michael-freilich-ocean-satellite |website=space.com |access-date=18 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SENTINEL-6 MICHAEL FREILICH MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/sentinel-6-michael-freilich/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Vandenberg Air Force Base}} ([[w:Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4|LC-4]], {{w|California}} || || [[File:Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich (2).jpg|thumb|center|150px|Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich]]
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| 2020 || November 24, 9:13 p.m. EDT || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || {{w|Falcon 9}} rocket launches for a seventh time, carrying 60 {{w|Starlink}} internet satellites into orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX rocket launches for record 7th time, nails landing at sea in 100th Falcon 9 mission |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-100th-falcon-9-rocket-launch |website=space.com |access-date=18 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=STARLINK MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-mission-11-24-2020/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ''Of Course I Still Love You'' {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}
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| 2020 || December 6, 16:17:08 [[w:Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]<ref name="SFN20201127">{{cite web|url=https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/|title=Launch Schedule : SpaceX CRS-21|first=Stephen|last=Clark|publisher=Spaceflight Now|date=27 November 2020|access-date=21 December 2020}}</ref> || Mission ({{w|ISS}} resupply) || {{w|SpaceX CRS-21}} launches as a [[w:Commercial Resupply Services|Commercial Resupply Service mission]], carrying 2,972 kg of cargo to the {{w|International Space Station}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX CRS-21 Mission |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-21_mision_overview_high_res_0.pdf |website=nasa.gov |access-date=31 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ISS Research Program |url=https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/iss-research/ |website=grc.nasa.gov |access-date=31 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Commercial Resupply |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/spacex.html |website=nasa.gov |access-date=31 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=CRS-21 MISSION |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/crs-21-mission-launch/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref>
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|| {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}}  || || [[File:SpaceX CRS-21 Patch.png|thumb|center|120px|SpaceX CRS-21 Patch]]
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| 2020 || December 9 || Mission (test) || {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=STARSHIP SN8 TAKES FLIGHT |url=https://www.spacex.com/updates/starship-sn8-takes-flight/index.html |website=spacex.com |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|SpaceX South Texas Launch Site}}, {{w|Texas}} || ||
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| 2020 || December 12 || Facility || The Government of {{w|Indonesia}} invites SpaceX to assess the possibility of setting up a rocket launch site in the country.<ref>{{cite web |title=Indonesia asks SpaceX to study country as venue for launch Site |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/indonesia-asks-spacex-to-study-country-as-venue-for-launch-site/story-aoW1GuMUjSYgzujB8MpqlK.html |website=hindustantimes.com |access-date=18 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Indonesia asks SpaceX to study country as venue for launch site |url=https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2020/12/12/indonesia-asks-spacex-to-study-sountry-as-venue-for-launch-site |website=thestar.com.my |access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> || ||
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| 2020 || December 13 || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX Launches mission deploying an audio satellite for digital radio broadcaster [[w:SiriusXM Satellite Radio|Sirius XM Holdings Inc]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Launches 25th Mission of 2020 |url=https://labusinessjournal.com/news/2020/dec/14/spacex-launches-25th-mission-2020/ |website=labusinessjournal.com |access-date=18 December 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ||
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| 2020 || December 19 || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9 Block 5}} launches carrying a classified spacecraft payload for the {{w|United States National Reconnaissance Office}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=NRO launches second dedicated mission with SpaceX |url=https://www.nro.gov/News/News-Articles/Article/2452908/nro-launches-second-dedicated-mission-with-spacex/ |website=nro.gov |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX will launch a spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office Thursday. |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-nrol-108-spy-satellite-launch-webcast |website=space.com |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ||
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| 2021 || January 8 || Mission ({{w|communications satellite}} delivery) || SpaceX {{w|Falcon 9 Block 5}} launches carrying Turkish communications satellite {{w|Türksat 5A}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Türksat 5A |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/turksat-5a.htm |website=Gunter's Space Page |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> ||  {{w|Cape Canaveral Air Force Station}} ([[w:Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40|LC-40]]), {{w|Florida}} || ||
 
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| 2021 || February 4 || Controversy || SpaceX is challenged regarding {{w|Starlink}} when the {{w|National Rural Electric Cooperative Association}} (NRECA) urges the U.S. {{w|Federal Communications Commission}} (FCC) to "actively, and aggressively, and thoughtfully vet" the {{w|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).<ref>{{cite web |title=Musk’s Internet-From-Space Subsidy at Risk as Rivals Protest |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-broadband-space-subsidy-irks-070000411.html |website=finance.yahoo.com |access-date=12 May 2022}}</ref> || ||
 
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| 2001 || October || || {{w|Elon Musk}} travells to {{w|Moscow with}} aerospace supplies fixer {{w|Jim Cantrell}}, and {{w|Adeo Ressi}} (Musk's best friend from college), to buy refurbished ICBMs ([[w:Dnepr (rocket)|Dnepr]]) that could send payloads into space.<ref name=A&Ssmithsonian201201>{{cite news |url=http://www.airspacemag.com/space/is-spacex-changing-the-rocket-equation-132285884/?no-ist |title=Is SpaceX Changing the Rocket Equation? |author=Andrew Chaikin |work=Air & Space Smithsonian |accessdate=4 December 2017 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/641B56u8L?url=http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Visionary-Launchers-Employees.html?c=y&page=2 |archive-date=December 18, 2011 |quote=''Significantly, the Merlin engines—like roughly 80 percent of the components for Falcon and Dragon, including even the flight computers—are made in-house. That’s something SpaceX didn’t originally set out to do, but was driven to by suppliers’ high prices. Mueller recalls asking a vendor for an estimate on a particular engine valve. 'They came back [requesting] like a year and a half in development and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Just way out of whack. And we’re like, ‘No, we need it by this summer, for much, much less money.’ They go, ‘Good luck with that,’ and kind of smirked and left.' Mueller’s people made the valve themselves, and by summer they had qualified it for use with cryogenic propellants. 'That vendor, they iced us for a couple of months,' Mueller says, 'and then they called us back: ‘Hey, we’re willing to do that valve. You guys want to talk about it?’ And we’re like, ‘No, we’re done.’ He goes, ‘What do you mean you’re done?’ ‘We qualified it. We’re done.’ And there was just silence at the end of the line. They were in shock.' That scenario has been repeated to the point where, Mueller says, 'we passionately avoid space vendors.'' |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>
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| 2021 || April 23 || Mission || {{w|SpaceX Crew-2}} launches as the second operational flight of a [[w:SpaceX Dragon 2|Crew Dragon]] spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight of the {{w|Commercial Crew Program}}. The mission uses the same capsule as {{w|Crew Dragon Demo-2}} ''([[w:Crew Dragon Endeavour|Endeavour]])'' and launches on the same {{w|Falcon 9}} booster as {{w|SpaceX Crew-1}}. The Crew Dragon [[w:Crew Dragon Endeavour|''Endeavour'']] (C206), docks to the {{w|International Docking Adapter}} (IDA) on the [[w:Harmony (ISS module)|''Harmony'' module]] at its forward port. This mission is the first with astronauts on board with a previously used booster rocket.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gohd |first1=Chelsea |title=SpaceX's Crew-2 launch lights up the predawn sky with a spectacular show (photos) |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-2-astronaut-launch-photos |website=Space.com |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=en |date=23 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX launches first astronauts on a reused rocket |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/spacex-launches-first-astronauts-on-a-reused-rocket |website=Science |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=en |date=23 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Amy |title=SpaceX launches 4 astronauts to space station, nails rocket landing |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-2-astronaut-launch-rocket-landing-success |website=Space.com |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=en |date=23 April 2021}}</ref> ||  {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File:SpaceX Crew-2 logo.png|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Crew-2 logo]]
 
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| 2002 || || || {{w|Elon Musk}} launches {{w|SpaceX}}.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings">{{cite web|title=Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings|url=https://newatlas.com/spacex-pictorial-launches-landings/51517/|website=newatlas.com|accessdate=8 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2021 || June 3 || Mission || {{w|SpaceX CRS-22}} [[w:Commercial Resupply Services|Commercial Resupply Service mission]] launches toward the {{w|International Space Station}}. Delivering more than 7,300 pounds of science, research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware, including new solar arrays, to the orbital laboratory and its crew, this is the second mission under SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with NASA.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mars |first1=Kelli |title=SpaceX CRS-22 Mission Overview |url=https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-22-mission-overview |website=NASA |access-date=20 May 2022 |date=13 May 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A|LC-39A]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File::CRS-22 docking approach (cropped).jpg|thumb|center|150px|CRS-22 Cargo Dragon approaching the ISS]]
 
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| 2008 || September 28 || || Spacex achieves the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit ([[w:Falcon 1|Falcon 1 Flight 4]]).<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX">{{cite web|title=THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX|url=https://www.yaabot.com/8479/rise-rise-spacex/|website=yaabot.com|accessdate=4 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2021 || September 16 || Mission || {{w|Human spaceflight}} mission {{w|Inspiration4}} launches the {{w|Crew Dragon}} [[w:Crew Dragon Resilience|''Resilience'']] atop a [[w:Falcon 9 Block 5|Falcon 9]] {{w|launch vehicle}}, placing the Dragon [[w:Space capsule|capsule]] into {{w|low Earth orbit}}, and successfully completing the first {{w|orbital spaceflight}} with only private citizens aboard, as part of a charitable effort on behalf of {{w|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital}} in {{w|Memphis, Tennessee}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gorman |first1=Steve |title=SpaceX prepares to send first all-civilian crew into orbit |url=https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/spacex-gets-ready-launch-first-all-civilian-crew-orbit-2021-09-12/ |website=Reuters |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=en |date=13 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Overbye |first1=Dennis |title=What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/science/fungus-pilobolus-space-astronauts.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=2 October 2021 |date=21 September 2021}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} ||
 
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| 2008 || December || || {{w|NASA}} awards SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract for US$1.6 billion.<ref>{{cite web|title=NASA Awards Space Station Commercial Resupply Services Contracts|url=https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/dec/HQ_C08-069_ISS_Resupply.html|website=nasa.gov|accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/>
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| 2021 || October || Mission || {{w|SpaceX Crew-3}} mission is launched. It is the fourth operational flight of a [[w:SpaceX Dragon 2|Crew Dragon]] spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight of the {{w|Commercial Crew Program}}. This is the {{w|maiden flight}} of {{w|Crew Dragon Endurance}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clark |first=Stephen |title=Astronauts choose ‘Endurance’ as name for new SpaceX crew capsule – Spaceflight Now |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/10/08/astronauts-choose-endurance-as-name-for-new-spacex-crew-capsule/ |access-date=12 May 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|LC-39]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File:Crew Dragon Endurance at the ISS.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Crew Dragon Endurance docked to the ISS during Crew-3]]
 
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| 2009 || July || || Falcon 1 Flight 5 becomes the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to deliver a commercial satellite to Earth orbit.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2021 || October || Mission || {{w|SpaceX Axiom Space-1}} mission is planned to launch around this time, with {{w|Tom Cruise}} on board in order to shoot an actual movie in space.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Cruise Is Officially Going to Space in October 2021, On Board Axiom Mission |url=https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tom-cruise-is-officially-going-to-space-in-october-2021-on-board-axiom-149076.html |website=autoevolution.com |access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Cruise going to space in 2021 to film movie with help of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Shuttle Almanac says |url=https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/tom-cruise-going-to-space-in-2021-to-film-movie-with-help-of-elon-musks-spacex-shuttle-almanac-says |website=fox5atlanta.com |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> || ||
 
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| 2010 || June || || {{w|Falcon 9}} meets 100% of mission objectives on the first flight.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2021 || December 21 || Mission || {{w|SpaceX CRS-24}} [[w:Commercial Resupply Services|Commercial Resupply Service mission]] launches toward the {{w|International Space Station}}. Using a [[w:SpaceX Dragon 2|Cargo Dragon]], this is the fourth flight for SpaceX under NASA's [[w:Commercial Resupply Services#Commercial Resupply Services phase 2|CRS Phase 2]] contract awarded in January 2016.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mars |first1=Kelli |title=SpaceX CRS-24 Mission Overview |url=https://www.nasa.gov/content/spacex-crs-24-mission-overview |website=NASA |access-date=20 May 2022 |date=13 December 2021}}</ref> The mission carries four Redwire payloads focused on advanced materials manufacturing and plant science experiments in low-Earth orbit.<ref>{{cite web |title=Redwire SpaceX CRS-24 Mission and Payload Resources |url=https://redwirespace.com/missions/spacex24/?rdws=nnn.xffxcv.tfd&rdwj=49164 |website=Redwire Space |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A|LC-39A]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File:SpaceX CRS-24 Patch.png|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX CRS-24 mission patch]]
 
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| 2010 || December 8 || || {{w|SpaceX Dragon}} becomes the first privately developed spacecraft in history to re-enter from low-Earth orbit.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/>
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| 2022 || April 27 || Mission || {{w|SpaceX Crew-4}} mission launches towards the {{w|International Space Station}}, with three American (NASA) astronauts and one European (ESA) astronaut onboard. Thisn is the [[w:SpaceX Dragon 2|Crew Dragon's]] fourth {{w|NASA}} [[w:Commercial Crew Program|Commercial Crew]] operational flight, and its seventh overall crewed orbital flight.<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 Mission |url=https://blogs.nasa.gov/crew-4/ |website=blogs.nasa.gov |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref> || {{w|Kennedy Space Center}} ([[w:Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A|LC-39A]]), {{w|Florida}} || || [[File:SpaceX Crew 4 logo.png|thumb|center|150px|SpaceX Crew-4 mission patch]]
 
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| 2010 || December 9 || || Spacex becomes the first privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft ({{w|Falcon 9 Flight 2}}).<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref name="MAKING HISTORY">{{cite web|title=MAKING HISTORY|url=http://www.spacex.com/about|website=spacex.com|accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2022 || September || Mission || {{w|SpaceX Crew-5}} mission is planned for launch around this time.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Crew-5 |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/spacex-crew-5/g11p5z9_40c?hl=en |website=Google Arts & Culture |access-date=20 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> || || ||
 
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| 2011 || || || Spacex announces [[w:Grasshopper (rocket)|Grasshopper]] program to develop reusable rockets.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2023 || April || Mission || {{w|SpaceX Crew-6}} mission is planned for launch around this time.<ref>{{cite web |title=United Arab Emirates astronaut to join NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission to space station |url=https://news.yahoo.com/united-arab-emirates-astronaut-join-180101521.html |website=news.yahoo.com |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref> || || ||
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| 2023 || September || Mission || {{w|SpaceX Crew-7}} mission is planned for launch around this time.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX Crew-7 – Commercial Crew Program |url=https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/tag/spacex-crew-7/ |website=blogs.nasa.gov |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref> || || ||
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| 2024 || || Mission || According to {{w|Elon Musk}}, SpaceX's 1st crewed Mars mission could launch as early as this year.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX's 1st crewed Mars mission could launch as early as 2024, Elon Musk says |url=https://www.space.com/spacex-launch-astronauts-mars-2024 |website=space.com |access-date=18 December 2020}}</ref> || || ||
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== Numerical and visual data  ==
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=== Google Scholar ===
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The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of October 28, 2021.
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{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! SpaceX
 
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| 2012 || May 25 || || Spacex becomes the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station ({{w|Falcon 9 Flight 3}}).<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2002 || 120
 
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| 2013 || October || || The [[w:Grasshopper (rocket)|Grasshopper]] program finishes with a 744m flight, hover, and landing.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/>
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| 2003 || 139
 
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| 2013 || December 3 || || Spacex becomes the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit ({{w|Falcon 9 Flight 7}}).<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/>
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| 2004 || 219
 
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| 2013 || December || || {{w|Falcon 9}} reaches {{w|Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit}}.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2005 || 249
 
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| 2014 || April || || {{w|Falcon 9}} first stage lands on barge in ocean, but is destroyed by heavy seas.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2006 || 286
 
|-
 
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| 2014 || June || || {{w|Falcon 9}} reusable test vehicle flies 1000 meters.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/>
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| 2007 || 224
 
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| 2014 || September || || {{w|NASA}} awards SpaceX a US$2.6 billion contract to fly American astronauts.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/>
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| 2008 || 379
 
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| 2015 || January || || SpaceX begins a series of first stage landing attempts on an {{w|autonomous spaceport drone ship}}.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/>
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| 2009 || 373
 
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| 2015 || May || || Crew Dragon tests launch abort system, an emergency escape measure designed to pull the crew capsule free of its Falcon 9 rocket in the event of a launch failure.<ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref>{{cite web|title=SpaceX Tests 'Revolutionary' Dragon Launch Escape System to Save Astronauts|url=https://www.space.com/29329-spacex-tests-dragon-launch-abort-system.html|website=space.com|accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2010 || 515
 
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| 2015 || December 22 || || Spacex achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on land ({{w|Falcon 9 Flight 20}}).<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2011 || 617
 
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| 2016 || April 8 || || Spacex achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on an ocean platform ({{w|Falcon 9 Flight 23}}).<ref name="THE RISE AND RISE OF SPACEX"/><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/><ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2012 || 778
 
|-
 
|-
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| 2017 || March 30 || || Spacex achieves the first controlled flyback and recovery of a payload fairing ([[w:SES-10|Falcon 9 Flight 32]])<ref name="fairingrec">{{cite web |url=http://fortune.com/2017/04/01/spacex-nose-cone-falcon9/ |title=SpaceX, In Another First, Recovers $6 Million Nose Cone From Reused Falcon 9 |publisher=Fortune.com |accessdate=4 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/>
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| 2013 || 1,070
 
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| 2017 || June 3 || || Spacex launches the first reflight of a commercial cargo spacecraft ([[w:CRS-11|Falcon 9 Flight 35]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spacex.com/webcast|title=ZUMA MISSION|first=|last=spacexcmsadmin|date=4 December 2017|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="MAKING HISTORY"/>
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| 2014 || 1,230
 
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| 2017 || June || || Refurbished {{w|SpaceX Dragon}} ship flies to the {{w|International Space Station}}, becoming the first time the same unmanned spacecraft has returned to the station.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2015 || 1,520
 
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|-
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| 2017 || September || || New rocket booster, the [[w:BFR (rocket)|BFR rocket]] is announced, along with updated plans for {{w|Mars colonization}}.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2016 || 2,280
 
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|-
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| 2017 || November || || SpaceX plans launch of the most powerful rocket since the {{w|Saturn V}} last left for the moon in 1973.<ref name="Fire and fury: A pictorial history of SpaceX's spectacular launches and landings"/>
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| 2017 || 2,790
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|-
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| 2018 || 3,410
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|-
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| 2019 || 3,640
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|-
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| 2020 || 4,020   
 
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|-
 
|}
 
|}
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[[File:Spacex gscho.png|thumb|center|700px]]
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=== Google trends ===
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The comparative chart below shows {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX and Elon Musk |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F03fkyw,%2Fm%2F03nzf1 |website=Google Trends |access-date=27 April 2021}}</ref>
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[[File:SpaceX and Elon Musk gt.png|thumb|center|600px]]
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=== Google Ngram Viewer ===
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The chart below shows {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}} data comparing "SpaceX", "Elon Musk","Blue Origin", and "Jeff Bezos" search strings (case-insensitive), from 2002 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX,Blue Origin,Elon Musk,Jeff Bezos |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=SpaceX%2CBlue+Origin%2CElon+Musk%2CJeff+Bezos&year_start=2002&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2CSpaceX%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBlue%20Origin%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CElon%20Musk%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CJeff%20Bezos%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2CSpaceX%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CBlue%20Origin%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CElon%20Musk%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CJeff%20Bezos%3B%2Cc0 |website=books.google.com |access-date=31 December 2020}}</ref>
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[[File:Spacex ngram viewer.png|thumb|center|600px]]
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=== Wikipedia views ===
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The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article {{w|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=SpaceX |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=SpaceX&allmonths=allmonths&language=en&drilldown=all |website=wikipediaviews.org |access-date=27 April 2021}}</ref>
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[[File:SpaceX wv.png|thumb|center|450px]]
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The comparative chart below shows pageviews on desktop of the English Wikipedia articles {{w|Falcon 9}}, {{w|Starlink}}, and {{w|Dragon 2}}, from July 2015 to March 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Falcon 9, Starlink and Dragon 2 |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?pages[0]=Falcon+9&pages[1]=Starlink&pages[2]=Dragon+2&allmonths=allmonths-api&language=en&drilldown=desktop |website=wikipediaviews.org |access-date=27 April 2021}}</ref>
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[[File:Falcon 9, Starlink and Dragon 2 wv.png|thumb|center|450px]]
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Big picture

Time period Development summary More details
2002–2007 Early period Early period of SpaceX, characterized by funding and testing.
2008–2019 Unmanned spaceflight period SpaceX achieves its first commercial spaceflight mission in 2008, starting a period of several dozens of missions serving agencies all over the world.
2020 onwards Human spaceflight period SpaceX begins its era of manned spaceflight after achieving its first crewed mission.

Summary by technology

Time period Development summary More details
2005 onwards Falcon development Falcon 1 development period, starting with the first failed launch in 2005, to actual recovery and reuse of Falcon rockets.
2010 onwards Dragon development SpaceX Dragon is introduced in 2010, and becomes the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to be recovered successfully from orbit.[1] SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch a payload into orbit and return it to Earth intact. Cape Canaveral becomes SpaceX's main launch site.
2011 onwards SpaceX reusable launch system development program SpaceX launches this program with the purpose to build an orbital launch system that may be reused many times in a manner similar to the reusability of aircraft.
2012 onwards Starship development Fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle Starship begins development in 2012. In 2014, SpaceX begins construction on its own spaceport in South Texas, which would serve as launch site of the Starship rockets.[2]

Summary by year

Year Development summary
2005 SpaceX begins testing Falcon 1, its first real rocket design created with the goal of reusable space flight.[3]
2006 SpaceX wins its first NASA award for US$278 million to help develop Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule.[4]
2007 SpaceX moves to Hawthorne, California, to build a new rocket factory that could handle its larger Falcon 9 rockets.
2008 Falcon 1 becomes the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit.
2009 SpaceX becomes the first privately funded company to put a satellite in Earth orbit.[5]
2010 SpaceX becomes the first commercial company to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit with its Dragon spacecraft.[6]
2011 SpaceX begins the development of Falcon Heavy.[7]
2012 SpaceX becomes the first commercial company to dock with the International Space Station.[5]
2013 SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit (SES-8).
2014 SpaceX reveals its Crew Dragon.[8]
2015 SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a probe beyond Earth orbit as well as the first to achieve landing of a first stage orbital capable rocket.
2016 SpaceX achieves the first water landing of a first stage orbital capable rocket (Falcon 9).
2017 SpaceX achieves one of its great ambitions, the recovery and reuse of rockets, conducting the historic first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[9]
2018 SpaceX begins launching Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two.[9]
2019 SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft, a Starship orbital prototype, begins initial tests with success.[10]
2020 SpaceX successfully achieves its first-ever crewed mission.

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.[11]
1961 December 12 Prelude (private spaceflight) OSCAR 1 is launched as the first amateur radio satellite, aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket.[12][13][14]
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.[15][16]
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.[17][18]
Elon Musk
1975 Prelude (private spaceflight) OTRAG from Germany becomes the first company to attempt private development and manufacture of space propulsion systems.[19]
1982 September 9 Prelude (private spaceflight) Conestoga 1 rocket by Space Services Inc. becomes the first privately funded rocket to reach space.[20][21][22]
1984 October 30 Prelude (private spaceflight) Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984[23][24][25]
1988 Elon Musk biography Elon Musk graduates from Pretoria Boys High School.[26]
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.[27]
1989 Elon Musk biography Elon Musk moves to Canada and enrolls at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.[18]
1990 April 5 Prelude (private spaceflight) Orbital Sciences Corporation launches the Pegasus vehicle,[28] becoming the first private company to develop an orbital launch system.[29][30][31]
1991 Elon Musk biography Elon Musk is transferred to the University of Pennsylvania.[18]
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).[32]
1995 Elon Musk biography Elon Musk moves to California and co-founds (with his brother Kimbal) Zip2, a web software company.[18]
1999 Elon Musk biography Zip2 is acquired by Compaq for US$340 million.[18]
1999 November Elon Musk biography Elon Musk founds X.com, an online bank.[18]
2000 September 8 Prelude (private spaceflight) American internet entrepreneur Jeff Bezos founds Blue Origin as an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company.[33][34]
2000 October Elon Musk biography Elon Musk is replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com, which would be renamed PayPal in 2001.[35]
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"[36] in an attempt to regain public interest in space exploration and increase the budget of NASA.[37][38]
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.[39]
Dnepr rocket
2002 May 6 Early development Elon Musk launches SpaceX[40], with original base established in El Segundo, California.[41] Musk founds the company paying US$100 million of his own money.[18]
2002 May Team American rocket engineer Tom Mueller joins SpaceX as a founding employee.[42]
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.[43]
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.[44]
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.[45]
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.[46][47]
2004 September 27 Competition Virgin Galactic is founded as a spaceflight company by British business magnate Richard Branson.[48]
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.[49]
2005 March Financial (funding) SpaceX raises US$22 million in Series B funding round, reaching a valuation of US$70.5 million.[44]
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.[50] Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island
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.[50] Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island
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.[51]
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.[50] 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.[50][52] 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.[53]
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.[54]
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.[45]
2006 November 27 Team American aerospace engineer John Insprucker agrees a full-time contract at SpaceX to oversee the development of the Falcon 9.[55]
2007 March 15 Mission (test) (Merlin) SpaceX performs a brief, successful static test ignition of the Falcon 1 first stage Merlin engine.[50]
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.[50][52] 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.[44]
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.[56]
SpaceX Headquarters, Hawthorne, California
2008 June 25 Mission (test) The third Falcon 1 rocket performs a Merlin 1C static test at Omelek.[50] Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island
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.[50] 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.[44]
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.[57][40][50] Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island No attempt
2008 December Contract NASA awards SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract for US$1.6 billion.[58][59]
2008 December 30 Infrastructure The first Falcon 9 vehicle is integrated at Cape Canaveral.[60]
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.[61] 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.[62]
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.[44]
2009 June Elon Musk biography Elon Musk joins Twitter, where he becomes a notable figure.[63][64]
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).[59][40][52] Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island No attempt
Inside Mission Control for Flight 5 of the Falcon1 rocket
2010 June 4 (18:45:00) Mission (test) Mission N° F9-01.[65]. Falcon 9 innaugural test flight from Cape Canaveral is conducted. The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit meets 100% of mission objectives on the first flight.[59][40][41] The company makes its inaugural test flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida.[41][52][66][67] 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.[44]
2010 December 8 (15:43:00) Mission (test) Mission N° F9-02.[68] 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.[57][59][40][41][69][41][70] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
COTS-1 Dragon After Return from Orbit
2011 January 31 Facility Elon Musk announces new SpaceX offices in Chantilly, Virginia.[71]
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.[72]
2011 Program launch SpaceX announces Grasshopper program to develop reusable rockets.[40]
SpaceX Grasshopper
2012 May 22 (07:44:38) Milestone mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-03[73] (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.[74][57][59][40][41][41][69][41] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
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.[75]
SpaceX private-launch facility location--TexasProposal--201304.jpg
2012 October 8, 00:34:07 UTC Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-04[76] 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.[77][41][78] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
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.[79]
Margarita Marinova
2013 March 1, 15:10:13 UTC Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-05.[80] The second SpaceX mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is launched from Cape Canaveral.[81] SpaceX CRS-2 becomes the fourth flight for SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
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.[41]
2013 September 29 (16:00:13) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-06.[82] SpaceX successfully launches debut Falcon 9 v1.1, carrying an array of payloads including Canadian CASSIOPE technology demonstration satellite.[83] Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California Uncontrolled landing on the ocean
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.[84][85][86][87][88][89]
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.[57][90] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SES-8 communications satellite.
2014 January 6 (22:06:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-08.[91] SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 launches carrying Thai commercial telecommunications satellite Thaicom 6 placing it into geosynchronous transfer orbit.[92] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
2014 April 18 (19:25:22) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-09.[93] 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[94], the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) device[95], and the Vegetable Production System, among other instruments.[96] The rocket first stage lands on barge in ocean, but is destroyed by heavy seas.[40] 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.[97]
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.[98][99]
2014 July 14 (15:15:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-10.[100] SpaceX conducts its Falcon 9 flight 10 mission, lofting a constellation of six ORBCOMM OG2 satellites to orbit.[101] 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.[102]
2014 August 5 (08:00:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-11.[103] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 to deliver Hong Kong geostationary communications satellite AsiaSat 8 to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.[104] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
2014 September 7 (05:00:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-13.[105] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 with AsiaSat 6 satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit.[106][107] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
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.[59][41]
2014 September 21 (05:52:03) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-12.[108] 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.[109] It would splash down in October, being successfully retrieved. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Uncontrolled landing on the ocean
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.[110]
Sentinel-2 L1C image on 2020-08-09 (1).jpg
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)[111]
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.[112]
2015 January 10 (09:47:10) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-14.[113] 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.[114] SpaceX begins a series of first stage landing attempts of its Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous spaceport drone ship.[59] The rocket crashes and burns.[41] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Failed landing at original Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
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.[44]
2015 February 11 Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-15.[115] SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches the Deep Space Climate Observatory DSCOVR spacecraft.[116] 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.[117] SpaceX Falcon 9 launches two communications satellites, the Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS-3A to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).[118] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
2015 April 14 (20:10:41) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-18.[119] 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.[120] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Failed landing at original Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
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.[121][122] 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.[59][123] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
DragonFly launches at the start of the flight
2015 June 28 (14:21:11) Failed mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-20.[124] A Falcon9 rocket explodes during takeoff.[41] The SpaceX CRS-7 launch vehicle disintegrates a few minutes after liftoff.[125] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
SpaceX CRS-7 Patch
2015 October Facility SpaceX begins soil preparation at SpaceX South Texas Launch Site.[126]
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.[127]
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.[128]
2015 December 22 (01:29:00) Milestone mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-21.[129] 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.[57][59][40][41][130][69] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
Falcon 9 first stage engines after its flight
2016 January 17 (18:42:18) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-19.[131] 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.[130] 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.[132]
2016 March 4 (23:35:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-22.[133] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches into orbit carrying the SES-9 communications satellite.[134] 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.[135] (SpaceX CRS-8). The company achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on an ocean platform (Falcon 9 Flight 23).[57][59][40] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
SpaceX CRS-8 Patch
2016 May 6 (05:21:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-24.[136] 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.[137] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
JCSAT-14 Launch
2016 May 27 (21:39:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-25.[138] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches placing the Thaicom 8 commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.[139] 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.[140][141] 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.[142]
2016 July 18 (04:45:29) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-27.[143] SpaceX CRS-9 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches aboard Falcon 9 Full Thrust carrying a Dragon capsule toward the International Space Station for resupply.[144] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
CRS-9 (27776229243).jpg
2016 August 14 (05:26:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-28.[145] SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches JCSAT-16 commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit, before landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.[146] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
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.[147] Israeli Earth communications satellite Amos-6 is destroyed.[148] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
SLC-40 after Falcon 9 fire
2017 January 14 (17:54:39) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-30.[149] 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.[150] Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
Iridium-1 Launch (31467130374).jpg
2017 February 19 ( 14:39:00) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-32.[151] SpaceX CRS-10 Dragon Commercial Resupply Service mission launches aboard Falcon 9 carrying nearly 5,500 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station.[152] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
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.[153]
2017 March 16 (06:00:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-31.[154] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivers heavyweight EchoStar 23 communications satellite into a high-altitude orbit, a mission near the limit of capability.[155] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida No attempt
2017 March 30 (22:27:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-33.[156] 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.[157][69][158][59] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
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2017 May 1 (11:15:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-34.[159] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches classified satellite for the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).[160] 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.[161] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite.[162] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida No attempt
2017 June 3 (21:07:38) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-36.[163] SpaceX CRS-11 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches as the first reflight of a commercial cargo spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon C106.[164][59] 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.[40][69] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
C106 in flight in June 2017, during CRS-11
2017 June 23 (19:10:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-37.[165] SpaceX Falcon 9 launches into orbit BulgariaSat-1, the first geostationary communications satellite in Bulgaria’s history.[166] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
BulgariaSat-1 launches on a Falcon 9
2017 June 25 (20:25:14) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-38.[167] Falcon 9 rocket launches and successfully deploys ten Iridium Communications satellites.[168][169][170] 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.[171] Falcon 9 launches from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, carrying the Intelsat 35e satellite to geostationary transfer orbit.[172] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida No attempt
Intelsat 35e Mission
2017 August 14 (16:31:37) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-41.[173] 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.[174] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
The CRS-12 Dragon spacecraft grappled by Canadarm2
2017 August 24 (18:51:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-40.[175] 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.[176] Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
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.[40]
2017 September 7 (14:00:00) Mission (spacecraft launch) Mission N° F9-42.[177] 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.[178][179][180] 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."[181]
2017 October 9 (12:37:01) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-44,[182] also called Iridium-3 Mission[183], is conducted. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 next-generation Iridium communications satellites (Third flight).[184][185][186] Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California Just Read the Instructions (JRtI) autonomous spaceport drone ship
Iridium-3 Mission
2017 October 11 (22:53:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-43.[187] 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.[188][189][190] 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.[191] 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.[192][193][194][52] 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.[40]
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.[44]
2017 December 15 (15:36:09) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-47.[195] 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.[196] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
CRS-13 Dragon attached to the ISS
2017 December 23 (01:27:34) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-48.[197] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 next-generation Iridium Communications satellites (fourth flight).[52] 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.[198] SpaceX launches classified spacecraft Zuma for the United States government.[199] 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.[200] Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1
2018 January 31 (21:25:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-49.[201] 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.[202] 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[203] (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.[204] 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
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2018 February 22 (14:17:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-50.[205] 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.[206] Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California No attempt
PAZ mission launch
2018 March 6 (05:33:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-51.[207] SpaceX launches its 50th Falcon 9 rocket, successfully orbiting a city bus-sized satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat.[208][209] 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.[210][211][212]
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.[213] Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California No attempt
2018 April 2 (20:30:38) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-53.[214] The SpaceX CRS-14 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches with a reused Falcon 9 Full Thrust.[215] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
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.[216] SpaceX launches NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into outer space in a mission aimed at surveying nearly the entire sky for exoplanets.[217][218][219][220] 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.[44]
2018 May 11 (20:14:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-55.[221] SpaceX launches updated version of Falcon 9 rocket carrying Bangladeshi Bangabandhu-1 Satellite into geostationary orbit.[222][223][224][225] 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.[226] 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.[227][228][229][230] 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.[231] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
2018 June 29 (09:42:42) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-58.[232] SpaceX reuses Dragon Cargo Ship and launches aboard a Falcon 9 Full Thrust[233] 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.[234][235][236][237][238][239][240] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida No attempt
Dragon spacecraft on approach to ISS
2018 July 22 (05:50:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-59.[241] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket deploying the Telstar 19V communications satellite for Canada’s Telesat.[242][243][244][245] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
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.[246] 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.[247] 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.[248] 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).[249][250][251][252] Days later SpaceX reveals that the customer is Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online clothing retailer.[253][254][255][256]
2018 October 8 (02:21:28) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-63.[257] 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.[258][259][260][261] Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California Vandenberg Air Force Base (SpaceX Landing Zone 4), California
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.[262][263][264]
2018 November 15 (20:46:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-64.[265]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.[266][267][268][269] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
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.[270][271] 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.[272] 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.[273] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft
2018 December 23 (13:51:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-67.[274] 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.[275][276][277][278] 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."[279][280][281][282]
2019 January 11 (15:31:33) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-68.[283] SpaceX launches its first Falcon 9 rocket of the year, sending up 10 satellites for long-time customer Iridium Communications.[284][285][286][287] 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.[44]
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.[288]
2019 February 22 (01:45:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-70.[289] 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.[290][291][292][293][294] 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.[295] Crew Dragon Demo-1 launches as the first orbital test of the Dragon 2 spacecraft, in an uncrewed mission.[296] On March 3, the Crew Dragon docks with the International Space Station, becoming the first American spacecraft to autonomously dock with the orbiting laboratory.[9] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
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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.[297]
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.[298][299][300] SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Texas
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.[301][302] SpaceX South Texas Launch Site
2019 April 11 (22:35:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° FH-02.[303] Falcon Heavy launches carrying into orbit the Arabsat-6A satellite, operated by the Arab Satellite Communications Organization.[304] 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)
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.[305][306][307] 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.[308] 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.[309][310]
2019 May 4, 06:48:58 UTC Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-71.[311] 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.[312] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Ocean (Autonomous spaceport drone ship)
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".[313]
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.[44]
2019 May 24, 02:30:00 UTC Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-72.[314] SpaceX launches a batch of 60 Starlink internet communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.[315][316][317] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Ocean (Autonomous spaceport drone ship)
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.[318][319]
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."[320]
2019 June 12 (14:17:00) Mission (Communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-73.[321] Falcon 9 launches carrying the RADARSAT Constellation, a three-spacecraft fleet of Earth observation satellites operated by the Canadian Space Agency.[322][323] 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.[324] 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.”[325][326][327] 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.[44]
2019 July 25 (22:01:56) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-74.[328] SpaceX CRS-18 ressupply mission launches toward the International Space Station, for the first time reusing a Dragon Capsule for a third flight.[329] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
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.[330][331][332] SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Texas
SpaceX Starhopper
2019 August 6 (23:23:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-75.[333] SpaceX Falcon 9 launches carrying Israeli commercial communication satellite AMOS-17.[334] 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.[335] 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.[44]
2019 November 11 (14:56:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-76.[336] Falcon 9 launches carrying a payload of 60 Starlink satellites.[337] 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.[338] 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.[339] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
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2019 December 17 (00:10:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-78.[340] Falcon 9 launches carrying heavyweight JCSAT-18 and Kacific1 satellites into orbit.[341] 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.[342] Falcon 9 launches carrying sixty more satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink global internet network.[343] 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[344] (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.[345] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida No attempt
Booster explosion during SpaceX's in flight abort
2020 January 29 (14:06:00) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-81.[346] Falcon 9 launches carrying fourth batch of Starlink satellites, deployed in a circular 290km orbit. A total of 60 satellites are delivered.[347][348][349] 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.[350]
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.[351]
William H. Gerstenmaier
2020 February 17 (15:05:55) Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-82.[352] Falcon 9 launches carrying to orbit a total of 60 Starlink satellites for new megaconstellation. The mission misses rocket landing.[353][354] 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.[355]
2020 February 28 Mission (failed test) (Starship) SpaceX Starship SN1 prototype explodes during pressure test.[356][357]
2020 March 7 (04:50:31) Mission (ISS resupply) Mission N° F9-83.[358] 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.[359][360][361] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Landing Zone 1), Florida
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.[44]
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.[362] 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.[363] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
SpaceX testing Merlin 1D Engine
2020 April 22 (19:30:00) Milestone mark achievement Mission N° F9-85.[364] Falcon 9 launches carrying 60 Starlink satellites. The SpaceX’s Starlink network surpasses 400-satellite mark after successful launch.[365] 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.[366]
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.[367][368]
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.[369][370][371]
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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.[372]
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.”[64][373]
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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.[374]
Elon Musk in Mission Control at SpaceX
2020 May 30 (19:22:00) Milestone mission (ISS crew transport) Mission N° F9-87.[375] Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches as a crewed flight test, transporting astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken toward the International Space Station.[376] This mission marks the beginning of a SpaceX human spaceflight era[377], and the first American crewed mission in years since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program.[378] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida Of Course I Still Love You autonomous spaceport drone ship
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.[379][380] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
2020 June 4, 01:25:33 UTC Mission (communications satellite delivery) Mission N° F9-86[381] (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.[382][383][384] 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."[385]
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.[386] 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.[387] 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.[388] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida
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.[389] 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.[390] SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Texas
File:SpaceX SN5 Starship 150m Hop & Powerslide.jpg
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.[391]
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.[392] 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.[393][394][395] Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (LC-40), Florida
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.[396] 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.[397] 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."[398]
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.[399][400] 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.[401] 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.[402]
2020 October 24, 11:31 UTC Mission (communications satellite delivery) Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying 60 Starlink satellites to orbit.[403] 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.[404] 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.[405]
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.[406]
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.[407][408] Vandenberg Air Force Base (LC-4, California
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.[409][410] 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[411] Mission (ISS resupply) SpaceX CRS-21 launches as a Commercial Resupply Service mission, carrying 2,972 kg of cargo to the International Space Station.[412][413][414][415] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida
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.[416] 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.[417][418]
2020 December 13 Mission (communications satellite delivery) SpaceX Launches mission deploying an audio satellite for digital radio broadcaster Sirius XM Holdings Inc.[419] 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.[420][421] 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.[422] 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).[423]
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.[424][425][426] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida
SpaceX Crew-2 logo
2021 June 3 Mission SpaceX CRS-22 Commercial Resupply Service mission launches toward the International Space Station. Delivering more than 7,300 pounds of science, research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware, including new solar arrays, to the orbital laboratory and its crew, this is the second mission under SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with NASA.[427] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39A), Florida [[File::CRS-22 docking approach (cropped).jpg|thumb|center|150px|CRS-22 Cargo Dragon approaching the ISS]]
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.[428][429] 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.[430] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39), Florida
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.[431][432]
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.[433] The mission carries four Redwire payloads focused on advanced materials manufacturing and plant science experiments in low-Earth orbit.[434] 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.[435] Kennedy Space Center (LC-39A), Florida
SpaceX Crew-4 mission patch
2022 September Mission SpaceX Crew-5 mission is planned for launch around this time.[436]
2023 April Mission SpaceX Crew-6 mission is planned for launch around this time.[437]
2023 September Mission SpaceX Crew-7 mission is planned for launch around this time.[438]
2024 Mission According to Elon Musk, SpaceX's 1st crewed Mars mission could launch as early as this year.[439]

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Google Scholar

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

Year SpaceX
2002 120
2003 139
2004 219
2005 249
2006 286
2007 224
2008 379
2009 373
2010 515
2011 617
2012 778
2013 1,070
2014 1,230
2015 1,520
2016 2,280
2017 2,790
2018 3,410
2019 3,640
2020 4,020


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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.[440]

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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.[441]

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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.[442]

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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.[443]


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