An American private aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, the first private company to develop a reusable orbital rocket and to launch, dock and return a crewed spacecraft, and a major contractor for NASA cargo and crew flights to the International Space Station.
Facts
Agency TypePrivate aerospace company 1 Founded Year HeadquartersHawthorne, California, United States 1 Annual Budget$18.67 billion in reported revenue for 2025 (SpaceX is privately held; figure from its SEC IPO filing, not a government budget) 3 Connections
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2. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia FoundationSpaceX, lead section
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services
Elon Musk article, SpaceX founding sentence
In 2002, Musk founded and became CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, a space technology company
Operates: Dragon, SpaceX Dragon article, infobox
Dragon is a family of spacecraft developed and produced by American public space transportation company SpaceX.
Operates: Starship, SpaceX Starship article, infobox
Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX.
View the Source 3. Payload: SpaceX Reveals Financial Data Ahead of IPO
PayloadPayload article on SpaceX IPO financial disclosureQuote, Payload article on SpaceX IPO financial disclosure
SpaceX generated $18.67B in revenue in 2025, according to paperwork filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of the company's IPO, expected next month.
Wikipedia: SpaceX (company)
In Group: Active Commercial Orbital Launch Providers, lead sectionQuote, In Group: Active Commercial Orbital Launch Providers, lead section
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services, headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas.
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