SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and operates the Falcon 9 medium-lift and Falcon Heavy heavy-lift launch vehicles, featuring reusable first stages that land autonomously for refurbishment and reuse. The company is developing Starship, a fully reusable super heavy-lift system designed for high-mass orbital delivery, lunar exploration, and interplanetary missions. Dragon spacecraft provide crew and cargo transport to the International Space Station under NASA contracts. SpaceX manufactures the Merlin engine for Falcon vehicles and the Raptor engine for Starship, a staged-combustion engine fueled by liquid methane and liquid oxygen. The company conducts operations from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral in Florida, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

SpaceX operates Starlink, a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation providing high-speed broadband connectivity to commercial, government, and maritime customers globally. The company is deploying Starlink Direct to Cell, which utilizes satellite-based LTE technology to provide connectivity to unmodified smartphones. SpaceX also operates Starshield, a dedicated business line for government and national security that provides secure communications, hosted payloads, and space domain awareness. The company remains a private corporation and serves a diverse client base including NASA, the U.S. Space Force, the Department of Defense, and international telecommunications partners.