SpaceX Company Profile
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. SpaceX tests its engines and structures at a 920-acre state-of-the-art rocket de...
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
SpaceX tests its engines and structures at a 920-acre state-of-the-art rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas. Every Merlin engine that powers the Falcon 9 rocket and every Draco thruster that controls the Dragon spacecraft is tested on one of 11 test stands. On our tripod test stand, the largest stand at 82 meters (269 feet) tall, the Falcon 9 first stage is tested with all nine Merlin engines firing at 1.3...
