Tesla launched a satellite for this purpose.

The purpose of Tesla's satellite launch is to send human beings to Mars, realize the ambition of CEO Elon Musk to make human life "multi-planetary" and become "the most popular air transport company in the solar system".

At the beginning of 200 1, elon musk planned a project called "Mars Oasis" when he was still in PayPal, and planned to build a small experimental greenhouse on Mars, so that crops from the earth could try to grow in Martian soil.

However, elon musk later found that the cost of buying launch vehicles from Aeroflot was much higher than the cost of developing their own rockets, so elon musk suspended the implementation of the plan.

In June 2002, elon musk established Space X Company as CEO and Chief Technology Officer, and elon musk began to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launch, and planned to immigrate to Mars in the future to establish a real space civilization for mankind. ?

In 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla, a company founded by martin eberhard, and served as the company's chairman.

Tesla is a company that manufactures high-end electric sports cars. Musk's investment in it is obviously based on his love for electric vehicles and his optimism about this market. Because of management problems and the stumbling of the production process of the first sports car, Musk invested all his money in research and development.

The world's first spaceship developed by a private company;

After the establishment of Space Exploration Technology Company in 2002, many critics thought that Musk could not succeed, which is why Musk named the spaceship after the mythical image "Dragon".

The "Dragon" spacecraft is designed with seven seats and a wide cargo hold, and its overall shape is bullet-shaped. It is one of the few commercial spacecraft in the world and the first spacecraft developed by a private company in the world.

In 20 1 1 year, NASA and Space Exploration Technology Company signed a contract worth1600 million US dollars, and Space Exploration Technology Company will provide 12 transportation replenishment missions for American astronauts. This gives space exploration technology company a price advantage of $200 million more than its competitor Orbital Science Company. The goal of space exploration technology company is to minimize the cost of space transportation.

In order to reduce costs, space exploration technology company even bought second-hand instruments from the Internet and found the cheapest salvage company to salvage rocket wreckage.

On February 20 12, the materials originally carried by the Dragon spacecraft were sent to the International Space Station by the Falcon 9 rocket for replenishment, which was delayed due to the need for more preparatory work. After all, this will be the first time that a private company spacecraft has docked with an on-orbit laboratory.

This is part of the $654.38+0.6 billion contract signed by Space Exploration Technology Company and NASA. Musk has signed more than 30 contracts worth $3 billion. They put a detailed map of the inside of the dragon capsule on the website for people to browse. The ultimate goal of this capsule container is to carry people between space and the earth at a relatively low cost. ?

Only four countries in the world have mastered the technology of launching and recycling spacecraft: the United States, the Russian Federation, China and elon musk.