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Company · Aerospace & Space

SpaceX

Designs, manufactures and launches rockets and spacecraft, including the Falcon and Starship vehicles.

Private 🦄 Unicorn Founded 2002 Hawthorne USA Aerospace & Space
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Founders

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Elon Musk
Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer

Where its founders came from

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The companies and labs that produced SpaceX’s founders.

Zip2 PayPal X.com

The SpaceX diaspora

29 companies Open the full tree →

People who worked at or founded SpaceX and went on to start their own companies.

Lineage of SpaceXSpaceXSpaceXElon MuskElon MuskZip2Zip2PayPalPayPalX.comX.comTeslaTeslaGeorge HotzGeorge HotzComma.aiComma.aitiny corptiny corpHarry O'HanleyHarry O'HanleyABL Space SystemsABL Space SystemsLong WallLong WallJemuel JosephJemuel JosephCoverCoverAlloy RoboticsAlloy RoboticsJordan NooneJordan NooneRelativity SpaceRelativity SpaceZooZooWill BrueyWill BrueyVardaVardaVarda Space IndustriesVarda Space IndustriesJustin LopasJustin LopasBase PowerBase PowerNeel KunjurNeel KunjurK2 SpaceK2 SpaceSigne LonholdtSigne LonholdtKadeyaKadeyaThomas MarkusicThomas MarkusicFirefly AerospaceFirefly AerospaceTom MuellerTom MuellerImpulse SpaceImpulse Space
The SpaceX lineage graph — click any node to keep exploring. ↓ CSV↓ JSON
E 14 founded
Zip2 1996 PayPal 1998 X.com 1999 Tesla 2003 Hyperloop One 2014 OpenAI 2015 Neuralink 2016 The Boring Company 2016 Thud 2017 xAI 2023 X Corp. 2023 SpaceXAI 2023 X Holdings Corp 2023 America PAC
G 2 founded
Comma.ai 2015 tiny corp 2022
H 2 founded
ABL Space Systems 2017 Long Wall
J 2 founded
Cover 2013 Alloy Robotics
J 2 founded
Relativity Space 2015 Zoo
J 1 founded
Base Power 2023
N 1 founded
K2 Space 2022
S 1 founded
Kadeya 2021
T 1 founded
Firefly Aerospace 2014
T 1 founded
Impulse Space 2021
W 2 founded
Varda 2020 Varda Space Industries 2021

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