OTHER PROJECTS

In January 2015, Space X CEO Elon Musk announced the development of a new satellite constellation to provide global broadband internet service. In June 2015 the company asked the federal government for permission to begin testing for a project that aims to build a constellation of 4,000 satellites capable of beaming the Internet to the entire globe, including remote regions which currently do not have internet access. Owned and operated by Space X, the goal of the business is to increase profitability and cashflow, to allow Space X to build its Mars colony.

INFRASTUCTURE

Space X is headquartered in California, which also serves as their primary manufacturing plant. They own a test site in Texas, and operate three current launch sites, with another under development. Space X also run regional offices in Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. and a satellite development facility in Seattle.

HEADQUARTERS AND MANUFACTURING PLANT

Space X Headquarters is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, California. The large three-story facility, originally built by Northrop Corporation to build Boeing 747 fuselages, houses Space X's office space, mission control, and vehicle factory. The area has one of the largest concentrations of aerospace headquarters, facilities, and/or subsidiaries in the U.S., including Boeing/McDonnell Douglas main satellite building campuses, Raytheon, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and AECOM, etc., with a large pool of aerospace engineers and recent college engineering graduate.

The company's headquarters, located in Hawthorne, California.

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