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.[7] |
2006 |
SpaceX wins its first NASA award for US$278 million to help develop Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule.[8] |
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.[9] |
2010 |
SpaceX becomes the first commercial company to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit with its Dragon spacecraft.[10] |
2011 |
SpaceX begins the development of Falcon Heavy.[11] |
2012 |
SpaceX becomes the first commercial company to dock with the International Space Station.[9] |
2013 |
SpaceX becomes the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit (SES-8). |
2014 |
SpaceX reveals its Crew Dragon.[12] |
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.[13] |
2018 |
SpaceX begins launching Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two.[13] |
2019 |
SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft, a Starship orbital prototype, begins initial tests with success.[14] |
2020 |
SpaceX successfully achieves its first-ever crewed mission.
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