Timeline of SpaceX
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The timeline currently offers focused coverage of the period until October 2021. It is likely to miss important developments outside this period (particularly after this period) though it may have a few events from after this period.
This is a timeline of SpaceX, which attempts to describe important events in the history of the company.
Contents
Sample questions
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- What are some significant events describing the life of SpaceX founder Elon Musk?
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- Who are some notable people working or having worked at SpaceX?
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- What are the several tests, mostly rocket launches, performed by SpaceX?
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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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- What rocket launch sites have been used by SpaceX?
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- You will see detailed locations, starting with early launches at Omelek Island, and following with launch sites in Florida (Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Kennedy Space Center), California (Vandenberg Air Force Base), and Texas (SpaceX South Texas Launch Site).
- What are the several facilities operated by SpaceX, includings offices, industrial and launch sites?
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- What are the several booster landing locations used by SpaceX?
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- What are some important contracts awarded to SpaceX by major organizations?
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- What are some notable events describing competition in commercial spaceflight?
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- You will see a number of private enterprises, and read names like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, among others.
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] | |||
| 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] | ||||
| 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] | ||||
| 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] | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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] | ||||
| 2008 | June 25 | Mission (test) | The third Falcon 1 rocket performs a Merlin 1C static test at Omelek.[50] | Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island | ||
| 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] | .jpg)
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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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] | ||||
| 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 | |
| 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] | |||
| 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 | |
| 2013 | February | Team | Bulgarian aeronautical engineer Margarita Marinova joins SpaceX as vehicle systems and propulsion engineer.[79] | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | .jpg) |
| 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] | |||
| 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 | |
| 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] | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2014 | September 22 | Facility | SpaceX conducts a groundbreaking ceremony on the new South Texas Launch Site.[110] | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | .jpg) 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | .jpg) 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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) | .jpg) 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | .jpg) 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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] | |||
| 2020 | February 11 | Team | SpaceX announces that aerospace engineer William H. Gerstenmaier has joined the company as a consultant.[351] | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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] | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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] | |||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
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]
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]
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]
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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Feedback for the timeline can be provided at the following places:
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- SpaceX Fans Facebook group
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- Artemis/SLS/Boeing CST-100 Starliner/SpaceX CrewDragon/Blue Origin/Dynetics Facebook group
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References
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