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This is a timeline of SpaceX, which attempts to describe important events in the history of the company. All completed missions are included.
Contents
Big picture
Time period | Development summary |
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2006–2009 | Early period of SpaceX, which involves the development of Falcon 1, an expendable launch system. Five missions are completed in this period, all of them launched in Kwajalein Atoll. |
2010–2013 | SpaceX Dragon is introduced, 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. |
2014–2016 | Strong period of growth. In 2014 SpaceX scheduled 14 launches, one more than it had done from 2006 through 2013. In 2014, SpaceX also began construction on its own spaceport in South Texas.[2] In 2015, SpaceX made progress with landing and reusing unmanned rockets. In 2016, SpaceX was on the list due to the discovery of the first step towards decreasing the costs of spaceflights.[3] In 2017, SpaceX more than doubled the number of completed missions achieved in 2016. |
2017 | SpaceX achieves one of its great ambitions, the recovery and reuse of rockets, conducting the historic first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[4] |
2018 | SpaceX begins launching Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two.[4] |
Full timeline
Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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2001 | Project | 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"[5] in an attempt to regain public interest in space exploration and increase the budget of NASA.[6][7] | |
2001 | October | Elon Musk travells 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.[8] | |
2002 | Foundation | Elon Musk launches SpaceX[9], with original base established in El Segundo, California.[10] | |
2006 | March 24 | Mission | Falcon 1 demo flight 1 is launched from Kwajalein site in Omelek Island.[11] |
2007 | March 20 | Mission | Falcon 1 demo flight 2 is launched from Kwajalein site in Omelek Island.[11] |
2008 | August 2 | Mission | Falcon 1 is launched from Omelek Island as mission for the United States Government, ATSB and NASA. It is SpaceX's first launch mission for customers.[11] |
2008 | September 28 | Mission | SpaceX achieves the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1 Flight 4).[12][9] |
2008 | December | Contract | NASA awards SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract for US$1.6 billion.[13][14] |
2009 | July | Mission | 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).[14][9][11] |
2010 | June 4 | Mission | Falcon 9 innaugural test flight from Cape Canaveral. The rocket meets 100% of mission objectives on the first flight.[14][9][10] The company makes its inaugural test flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida.[10][11][15][16] |
2010 | December 8 | Mission | Falcon 9 Flight 2. 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.[12][14][9][10][17][10][18] |
2011 | Program | SpaceX announces Grasshopper program to develop reusable rockets.[9] | |
2012 | May 22 | Mission | 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.[19][12][14][9][10][10][17][10] |
2012 | October 7 | Mission | Falcon 9 launches Dragon on Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station, bringing 1,000 lbs of food and cargo to the astronauts on board.[20][10][21] |
2013 | March 1 | Mission | The second SpaceX mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is launched from Cape Canaveral.[22] |
2013 | March | 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.[10] |
2013 | September 29 | Mission | SpaceX successfully launches debut Falcon 9 v1.1, carrying an array of payloads including Canadian CASSIOPE technology demonstration satellite.[23] |
2013 | October | Mission | The Grasshopper program finishes with a 744m flight, hover, and landing.[14] |
2013 | December | Contract | NASA selects SpaceX to lease a historic launch pad for the company's commercial rockets. The agreement would allow the spaceflight company to lease the historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.[24][25][26][27][28][29] |
2013 | December 3 | Mission | SpaceX 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.[12][30] |
2013 | December | Mission | Falcon 9 reaches Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.[14][9] |
2014 | April | Mission | Falcon 9 first stage lands on barge in ocean, but is destroyed by heavy seas.[9] |
2014 | June | Mission | Falcon 9 reusable test vehicle flies 1000 meters.[14] |
2014 | July | Mission | SpaceX launches its tenth consecutive successful Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station; lofting a constellation of six ORBCOMM OG2 satellites to orbit.[31] |
2014 | August 5 | Mission | SpaceX launches Falcon 9 to deliver Hong Kong geostationary communications satellite AsiaSat 8 to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.[32] |
2014 | September 7 | Mission | SpaceX launches Falcon 9 with AsiaSat 6 satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit.[33] |
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.[14][10] |
2014 | September 21 | Mission | SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft is launched on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying fourth cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station.[34] |
2015 | January | Mission | SpaceX begins a series of first stage landing attempts of its Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous spaceport drone ship.[14] The rocket crashes and burns.[10] |
2015 | February 11 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches the Deep Space Climate Observatory DSCOVR spacecraft.[35] |
2015 | March 2 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully boosts Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS-3A communications satellites to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).[36] |
2015 | April 14 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft on the sixth commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.[37] |
2015 | April 27 | Mission | Falcon 9 launches Turkmenistan's first satellite TürkmenÄlem 52°E / MonacoSAT for Franco-Italian aerospace manufacturer Thales Alenia Space.[38] |
2015 | May | Test | 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.[14][39] |
2015 | June 28 | A Falcon9 rocket explodes during takeoff.[10] | |
2015 | December 22 | Mission | SpaceX achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on land (Falcon 9 Flight 20), after delivering 11 Orbcomm communications satellites.[12][14][9][10][40][17] |
2016 | January 17 | Mission | 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.[40] |
2016 | March 4 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches into orbit carrying the SES-9 communications satellite.[41] |
2016 | April 8 | Mission | SpaceX achieves the first landing of an orbital rocket's first stage on an ocean platform (Falcon 9 Flight 23).[12][14][9] |
2016 | May 6 | Mission | In a mission to deliver Japanese satellite JCSAT-14 on a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), SpaceX records another successful landing of a rocket stage at sea when the Falcon 9 booster returns to a drone ship off the Florida coast.[42] |
2016 | May 27 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket places the Thaicom 8 commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.[43] |
2016 | July 18 | Mission | SpaceX achieves its fifth successful rocket landing after a cargo launch toward the International Space Station.[44] |
2016 | August 14 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches JCSAT-16 commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit, before landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.[45] |
2017 | January 14 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully delivers 10 satellites to low-Earth orbit for Iridium Communications, an American company that operates mobile voice and data satellite communications.[46] |
2017 | February 19 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral carrying a Dragon cargo capsule filled with nearly 5,500 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station.[47] |
2017 | March 30 | Mission | 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.[48][17] |
2017 | March 16 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivers heavyweight EchoStar 23 communications satellite into a high-altitude orbit, a mission near the limit of capability.[49] |
2017 | March 30 | Mission | SpaceX achieves the first controlled flyback and recovery of a payload fairing (Falcon 9 Flight 32)[50][14] |
2017 | May 1 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches classified satellite for the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).[51] |
2017 | May 15 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite.[52] |
2017 | June 3 | Mission | SpaceX launches the first reflight of a commercial cargo spacecraft (Falcon 9 Flight 35).[53][14] Refurbished SpaceX Dragon ship flies to the International Space Station, becoming the first time the same unmanned spacecraft has returned to the station.[9][17] |
2017 | June 23 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 launches into orbit BulgariaSat-1, the first geostationary communications satellite in Bulgaria’s history.[54] |
2017 | June 24 | Mission | Falcon 9 rocket successfully deploys ten Iridium communications satellites.[55] |
2017 | July 5 | Mission | Falcon 9 launches from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, carrying the Intelsat 35e satellite to geostationary transfer orbit.[56] |
2017 | August 14 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 carrying the Dragon vehicle in its twelfth flight to the International Space Station.[57] |
2017 | August 24 | Mission | 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.[58] |
2017 | September | Technology | New rocket booster, the BFR rocket is announced, along with updated plans for Mars colonization.[9] |
2017 | September 7 | Mission | SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launches the Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5) payload from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.[59][60][61] |
2017 | October 9 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 next-generation Iridium communications satellites (Third flight).[62][63][64] |
2017 | October 11 | Mission | 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.[65][66][67] |
2017 | October 30 | Mission | 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.[68][69][70][11] |
2017 | November | Program | SpaceX plans launch of the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V last left for the moon in 1973.[9] |
2017 | December 15 | Program | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the 13th operational Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on the company’s fourth mission under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services Program in the year.[71] |
2017 | December 22 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with 10 next-generation Iridium Communications satellites (fourth flight).[11] |
2018 | January 7 | Mission | SpaceX launched classified Zuma spacecraft for the United States government.[72] |
2018 | January 31 | Mission | 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..[73] |
2018 | February 6 | Mission | SpaceX successfully conducts a test launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket carrying aboard a Tesla Roadster and “Starman”, a dummy in a SpaceX spacesuit.[74] |
2018 | February 22 | Mission | 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.[75] |
2018 | March 6 | Mission | SpaceX launches its 50th Falcon 9 rocket, successfully orbiting a city bus-sized satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat.[76][77] |
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.[78][79][80] |
2018 | April 18 | Mission | SpaceX launches NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into outer space in a mission aimed at surveying nearly the entire sky for exoplanets.[81][82][83][84] |
2018 | May 11 | Mission | SpaceX launches updated version of Falcon 9 rocket carrying Bangladeshi Bangabandhu-1 Satellite into geostationary orbit.[85][86][87][88] |
2018 | May 22 | Mission | 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.[89][90][91][92] |
2018 | June 29 | Mission | SpaceX reuses Dragon Cargo Ship and launches 15th cargo mission to the International Space Station for NASA, sending up nearly 6,000 pounds of supplies.[93][94][95] |
2018 | July 2 | Mission | SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrives at the International Space Station, carrying nearly 3 tons of supplies, including coffee, berries and ice cream, mice and the first orbiting robot with artificial intelligence.[96][97][98][99] |
2018 | July 21 | Mission | SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket deploying the Telstar 19V communications satellite for Canada’s Telesat.[100][101][102][103] |
2018 | September 13 | Contract | SpaceX reports having signed its first customer to fly on the company’s new rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR).[104][105][106][107] Days later SpaceX reveals that the customer is Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online clothing retailer.[108][109][110][111] |
2018 | October 7–8 | Mission | Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, successfully delivering Argentina's SAOCOM-1A Earth-observation satellite to orbit. On the 8 October, the rocket lands for the first time back at its California launch site.[112][113][114][115] |
2018 | November 15 | 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.[116][117][118] | |
2018 | November 15 | Mission | 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.[119][120][121][122] |
2018 | December 23 | Mission | SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying the first advanced, next-generation "GPS III" satellite, built by Lockheed Martin.[123][124][125][126] |
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."[127][128][129][130] |
2019 | January 11 | Mission | SpaceX launches its first Falcon 9 rocket of the year, sending up 10 satellites for long-time customer Iridium Communications.[131][132][133][134] |
2019 | February 21 | Mission | 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.[135][136][137][138][139] |
2019 | March 3 | Mission | Crew Dragon docks with the International Space Station, becoming the first American spacecraft to autonomously dock with the orbiting laboratory.[4] |
2019 | April 3 | Mission | A test version of SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft, the Starship, successfully ignites its onboard engine for the first time.[140][141][142] |
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