THE PURPOSE

The purpose for this project was to give my take on the SpaceX logo by making it into a "bubbly" and "condensed" look. This is not by any means trying to make the logo look better or worse. Just look at this as the logo in another universe :)

I Hope you enjoy viewing this project, I hope this gives you another perspective on the SpaceX logo and information on the company you rather did not know about.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (doing business as SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer, space transportation services and communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. SpaceX manufactures the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, several rocket engines, Dragon cargo, crew spacecraft and Starlink communications satellites.

SpaceX's achievements include the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1 in 2008), the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Dragon in 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (Dragon in 2012), the first vertical take-off and vertical propulsive landing for an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2015), the first reuse of an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2017), and the first private company to send astronauts to orbit and to the International Space Station (SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 in 2020). SpaceX has flown and reflown the Falcon 9 series of rockets over one hundred times.

SpaceX is developing a satellite mega constellation named Starlink to provide commercial internet service. In January 2020, the Starlink constellation became the largest satellite constellation ever launched. SpaceX is also developing Starship, a privately funded, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch system for interplanetary spaceflight. Starship is intended to become the primary SpaceX orbital vehicle once operational, supplanting the existing Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon fleet. Starship is planned to be fully reusable and will have the highest payload capacity of any orbital rocket ever on its debut, scheduled for the early 2020s.

The name is an abbreviation of Space Exploration Technologies and it takes on a similar approach as the Tesla logo, not only in terms of typography but also by stylizing one of it’s letters. However, in this case not the first — but the last letter is stylized, which seems to be perfect for the job. The X is like a rocket trajectory. One of the diagonal strokes forming the X letter resembles the trajectory of a rocket launched into space. As simple as it can be.
This typographic treatment is 100% accurate and it seems that it couldn’t be done any differently.