--- title: "You Can Now Book Space on a SpaceX Rocket for $1 Million Online" description: "SpaceX has launched an online booking tool that lets companies reserve space on a Falcon 9 rocket. For $1 million, customers can send 200 kg into orbit." date: "2020-02-05" modified: "2020-02-05" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/book-space-spacex-rocket-one-million-online" categories: - "Space" - "SpaceX" tags: - "falcon 9" - "satellites" - "SpaceX" - "the digest" --- # You Can Now Book Space on a SpaceX Rocket for $1 Million Online ![SpaceX has launched an online booking tool that lets companies reserve space on a Falcon 9 rocket. For $1 million, customers can send 200 kg into orbit.]() *\Image: SpaceX/Victor Tangermann\* ## Rocket Rideshare SpaceX has officially launched an online booking tool that lets you reserve space on a Falcon 9 rocket. You won't be getting a seat to travel to space yet, though — the tool is meant to offer smaller companies a way to send payloads into space, including small satellites, as [*TechCrunch* reports](). ## Ticket to Orbit For a cool $1 million, customers will be able to send a payload of up to 200 kg (440 lbs) into orbit as part of the ["Smallsat Rideshare Program,"]() first [unveiled by SpaceX in August](). That's a significant price drop from the original $2.5 million [reported at the time](). The booking tool will ask you for a desired orbit, which clients can pick from polar orbit (a line that runs over both poles at 90 degrees to the equator), Sun-synchronous orbit (a specific orbit that allows solar panels to work continuously), or low-Earth orbit (Earth-centered at up to altitudes of 2,000 km). ## Payloader The Elon Musk-led company is also offering up its own proprietary separation system for an additional cost. Insurance and on-site fuelling are also available. SpaceX is planning to start flying these payloads on its rideshare Falcon 9 rockets starting this June, according to *TechCrunch*. Customers will have to put down a $5,000 deposit and pay up the rest in three instalments. **READ MORE:** [SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online starting at $1 million]() \[*TechCrunch*\] **More on SpaceX:** *[SpaceX Is Planning a Miles-High Starship Flight as Early as March]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()