SpaceX is a privately owned company that was founded in the year 2002. The founder Elon Musk, took a dream and his millions and created an empire made out of rockets that raced ahead of their time.The company has a strong believe that being able to expand our race to live on other planets is another step in evolution that was meant to be. That is there overall goal, to be able to allow the human race to expand onto other planets.
Since being created the company has made the most extraordinary things happen. In the year 2010, SpaceX became the first private company to land a craft from low orbit in history with their rocket model known as the Dragon. The company is not only the most successful but also is the least expensive to transport cargo into space compared to the others that have the capability to do so. Even more recent in 2014, SpaceX and NASA made a deal for 2.6 Million dollar to allow the company to carry US astronauts into space. The deal was then increased when NASA gave SpaceX 440 million dollars to make the Dragon model rock crew ready.
The company only uses one type of engine called the pintle. The rocket is more efficient compared to rocket engines that competing companies use. Most rocket engines use droplets of fuel and oxidizer are sprayed into the combustion chamber through an injector plate resembling a shower head. However, the pintle uses a needle-like injector that’s more like the nozzle on a garden hose. The engine runs on Liquid Oxygen and RP1. The engine SpaceX has been able to create is far more efficient and has less of a chance of combustion during a launch.
The company has grown massively over the years. They have a workforce of 4000 current employees, all in which working hard with the intention of creating a second home for people of planet earth. What once was an idea has truly become a brilliant and booming business that has and will continue to expand and break through new barrier of success in outer space.
Resources
http://www.airspacemag.com/space/is-spacex-changing-the-rocket-equation-132285884/?page=2
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/02/spacex-prepares-ses-9-mission-dragons-return/
http://www.spacex.com/