
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company founded by Elon Musk in 2002 that designs, builds, and launches rockets and spacecraft with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling human colonization of Mars.

Fenix Space is an American aerospace company and inventor of a reusable air-launch system, in which a carrier aircraft tows a winged glider/launcher to high altitude, detaches, fires its engines, and propels payloads toward orbit or hypersonic trajectories — enabling launches from ordinary runways without traditional pads.