Business Analysis: Spacex Launch

A home health nurse knows that a 70-year-old male client who is convalescing at home following a hip replacement, is at risk for developing decubitus ulcers. Which physical characteristic of aging contributes to such a risk?

Airborne Express the current underdog in the express mail business has been able to compete with market leaders due to innovation and optimization strategy. The company built on cutting cost and emphasizing reliability now faces pressure from the leaders UPS and FedEx to change their pricing strategy. This change from standard rate pricing to distance-based pricing puts Airborne in a dilemma in which they must choose to match the competition which will make them lose what sets them apart in the market or stay with the current strategy. Changing will increase their flexibility and could open them up to new consumers while staying the same

The Boeing Airplane Company was established in 1916 by William Boeing in the city of Seattle, Washington. Boeing has become one of the world’s biggest manufacturers when it comes to military and commercial planes and parts. There are two major corporations within the aircraft industry that are big competitors and share a great rivalry with each other and they are the Boeing and Airbus Corporations. The corporations have been competing with each other for many years when it comes to finding potential contracts for their airplane and also creating different and unique aircraft models for their targeted customers.

Apollo 10 launched from Cape Kennedy on May 18th 1969. The Apollo 10 crew Commander Tomas Stafford, John Young, and Eugene Cerman. This launch was the first live color TV transmission began three hours after launch and showed the docking process in the interior of the command service module. Another second and third telecast were made from as far as 140,000 miles away from Earth. At approximately 80 hours into the flight, Apollo 10 orbited the moon and transmitted the first color TV pictures of the moon’s surface from about 69 miles above the surface of the moon. (Loff, Sarah)

Provide examples of three businesses (from the MOS book) that faced the same economic issues by Airborne.

SpaceX is another brainchild of Elon Musk. Musk has had ambitions of space travel, hoping to be the first permanent resident of mars. In February 2018, Elon Musk launched Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket ever launched into space.

Musk conceptualized a project called “Mars Oasis,” in 2001, in which he would “land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars that contained seeds and dehydrating gel, after hydrating the gel the seeds would grow on Martian soil” (McKnight, 2001). The project was to regain a dwindling public interest in space exploration and increase the budget of NASA. Musk quickly realized that the expense of getting to Mars was far greater than he expected and that there would need to be a breakthrough in rocket technology. Musk traveled the world meeting with different rocket builders and space engineers in hopes of finding the right rocket builder and the right price to make his project a reality but did not find a suitable candidate. Musk had the idea of creating a company that could build the rockets that he needed at a fraction of the cost. Musk saw opportunity where others saw dead ends. He hired renowned rockets engineers and opened a facility in El Segundo, California, called SpaceX. “Musk decided SpaceX’s first rocket would be named Falcon 1, a nod to Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon” (Vance, 2015). A few of SpaceX’s achievements include: the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit (28 September 2008), the first privately funded company to successfully launch (Falcon 9) orbit and recover a spacecraft (9 December 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft 9Dragon) to the International Space Station (25 May 2012) and the first private company to send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit. In 2011, Musk stated that he hopes to “send humans to Mars’ surface within 10-20 years and believes that by 2035 at the latest, there will be

Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully landed a Falcon 9 rocket, so we can now officially call the CEO the real-life Tony Stark. Only a real world Iron Man could get into this many business ventures and actually succeed.

On January 7th, 2018 SpaceX successfully launched their most powerful rocket since the Apollo era-the Falcon Heavy rocket. This means that this will open more opportunities for future space launches. Some of the rocket parts like the boosters are reusable because SpaceX found a way to make the boosters land safely on the ground without getting destroyed. Falcon Heavy essentially comprises three previously tested rockets packed together to create one big spacecraft. SpaceX is planning to go to Mars one day to colonize it for human life to exist on it.

Unlike several previous attempts, SpaceX isn’t going to try to have their Falcon 9 rocket travel back to Earth and try to land on a target ship due to not having enough fuel this time around. Previous attempts did not succeed in a successful landing on the target ship, which was tried to help salvage the Falcon 9 rocket for future use I order to save money on having to build a new one for every satellite launch. Each of the Falcon 9 rockets costs millions of dollars, so this would be a significant savings once they are able to perfect the return landing

The astronauts in space have been running fairly short on food and water for these last 8 months, but NASA has said that the crew has enough food to last them until October 2015. According to information gained from a NASA news conference which was held on Sunday, June 28, the water supply at the ISS would run out by September 17, 2015. In addition to these hurdles, NASA had to build the parts for the third time. This has also been a financial struggle because each launch costs $61.2 million and the rocket itself costs $396 million to build. What’s more is that NASA called for a new $7 billion dollar project which would equate for the launching of NASA’s next 50 rockets. Right after this budget was proclaimed the SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed. If supplies were to run out, NASA said they would make arrangements for the astronauts to come back to

The construction and funding of the LNG Plants, along with the SpaceX Launching Center, contribute to the development rate of industrialization, job availability as well as the incretion of tourism rate in Brownsville. On the other hand, these industrialization sites will alter, destroy and endanger the environment, as well as the contribution to the genetic mutations in animals. As well as the creation of health issues, work hazards for the new employees, along with the foreclosure of Boca Chica Beach, are key issues on why the government in Texas should seize all funding and construction of the LNG Plants and SpaceX Launching Center in Brownsville.

The Americans first space station was called Skylab. Skylab was the first long duration orbital workshop that was established in 1973 and stayed in orbit until 1979. When they thought about building a space station it was at the end of the space race that was in 1969. Which made mankind want to make manned missions to the moon. Proposals were considered that the Saturn S-IVB to make a space station. The proposals also wanted man to use the Apollo Command-Service Module to go with the Saturn S-IVB. In February 1970 the mission was renamed Skylab. The Saturn V rocket

Corporate partnerships have been funding and sponsoring high school’s sporting events. Their advertisements are found all over school campuses, logos are found on players’ uniforms, others place the corporate name on school facilities, and some schools often negotiate exclusive contracts with soft drinks and snacks for vending machines and clothing companies. Since many claim that corporate partnerships are a necessity for monetary purposes, the education system should restrict these corporations by only allowing them to voluntarily sponsor the school, in order to provide a safe environment free from ads and influence for the students.

The competition between SpaceX and Boeing started a week after Elon Musk the CEO of SpaceX, unveiled his ambitious plan to colonize mars. After that statement, Dennis Muilenburg the CEO of Boeing announced that they also have sights on sending people to Mars. He stated during a conference in Chicago “I am convinced that the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding on a Boeing rocket”(Thorbecke).