--- description: Find out why SpaceX was selected for the list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023: SpaceX image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a52a519201f1107/698a3dcde6e84a1b452b0320/time100-companies-SpaceX-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jun 21, 2023 # SpaceX The next frontier by [Jeffrey Kluger](/author/jeffrey-kluger/) ## Jeffrey Kluger Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large  Starship Test Flight Mission. Starship Test Flight Mission.SpaceX Last year alone, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched 61 Falcon 9 flights—or one every six days—making it the world’s workhorse rocket. It’s just the start. On April 20, 2023, SpaceX launched the most powerful rocket ever built, when it lit the fuse on its [brand-new Starship](https://time.com/6252046/spacex-starship-rocket/ "undefined"), a rocket NASA is counting on to land astronauts on the moon sometime before the end of the decade. It’s a huge feat, even though Starship exploded just four minutes into the flight. The flight (and subsequent “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” as SpaceX described it in a tweet) provides crucial information on how to succeed that will guide future testing. _A weekly newsletter featuring conversations with the world’s top CEOs, managers, and founders._ [_Join the Leadership Brief_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=leadership&source=100companies "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285122/spacex-leaders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285122/spacex-leaders/"},"headline":"SpaceX","datePublished":"2023-06-21T10:55:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:27:25.741Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285122/spacex-leaders/","keywords":["TIME100 Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a52a519201f1107/698a3dcde6e84a1b452b0320/time100-companies-SpaceX-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"creator":"Jeffrey Kluger","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a52a519201f1107/698a3dcde6e84a1b452b0320/time100-companies-SpaceX-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285122/spacex-leaders/","name":"SpaceX"}}]}] ```