Image: The planet Mars. Credit: Andrea Luck from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. SpaceX is an American aerospace, satellite, social media, and artificial intelligence (AI) company founded by Elon Musk in 2002. The company was created to colonize Mars and build the commercial space industry. In 2015, SpaceX announced its entrance into the satellite business via Starlink. Then, in 2026, SpaceX ex