Review of SpaceX from Management perspective

2. SpaceX
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT 1
INITIAL PRESENTATION
23RD MARCH 2017 BY: Dileepa Fernando : 100038386
Mikaela Forgione : 7656955
Maher Mahmoud : 100036468
Michael Rowland : 2048930

3. Contents
What is Spacex ?
Environmental Factors
Planning and decision Making
Innovation
Project plan
References

4. What is Spacex ?
• SpaceX designs, manufactures
and launches advanced rockets
and spacecraft.
• The company was founded in
2002 by Elon Musk
• Ultimate goal is to make man
kind a interplanetary species

5. Environmental Factors
• Reusable rockets reduce waste in manufacturing new rockets for
every new launch
• Currently using type of kerosene
• Each launch creates green house gases equal to Sydney to LA
• Research on alternate fuels to reduce Pollution

6. Planning and decision Making
• Three types of rockets :Falcon 9,Falcon Heavy, Dragon
• Dragon missions (2018-2022)
• Making mars habitable (2020)
• Sending humans to mars(2025-2027)
• Mars colonisation by 2040

7. Innovation
• Reusable launch modules
• Hydrogen based fuel types
• Cheaper space travel

8. Project plan

9. References
• https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/CBS/SearchResults?SearchType=CORP&Search
Criteria=space+exploration&SearchSubType=Keyword
• https://electrek.co/2016/11/16/elon-musk-stake-spacex-tesla-shares/
• http://www.seattletimes.com/business/spacexs-redmond-effort-very-speculative/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cT7_iySwP8
• http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/07/business/la-fi-himi-spacex-20130609
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdvv8qIl_WI#t=20sec
• https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/science/elon-musk-spacex-mars-
exploration.html?_r=0
• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/science/space/space-x-capsule-docks-at-space-
station.html
• http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon/004/index.html

10. Thank you.

11. Questions?