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SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, 2026, debuting on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX at its fixed $135-per-share price for a roughly $1.77 trillion valuation and about $75B in proceeds, with Elon Musk retaining ~82% voting control; SPCX slid as low as $107.01 in late July before rebounding to close above its $135 IPO price on August 10, 2026 for the first time since mid-July. Starship returned to flight after the FAA closed the Flight 12 mishap investigation on July 13, 2026: on July 24, 2026 Flight 13 - the second flight of the Version 3 vehicle - deployed the program's first 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites and made the softest ship splashdown yet, and recovery crews towed the intact upper stage (Ship 40) through rough seas to Christmas Island, Australia by August 18, 2026 - the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after flight - before the semi-submersible vessel Forte departed Christmas Island on August 28, 2026 to carry it roughly 20,000 km back to Starbase, Texas. Days after its IPO, SpaceX agreed on June 16, 2026 to acquire AI coding startup Cursor's parent Anysphere for $60B in an all-stock deal - the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup ever - and closed the deal on August 15, 2026, ahead of its late-August target, giving Cursor access to SpaceX's GPU fleet including the Colossus supercomputer. SpaceX posted its first earnings as a public company on August 4, 2026 (Q2 revenue of $7.8B, up 92% year over year, narrowing its net loss to $541M), and on August 11 Elon Musk told employees SpaceX's AI compute business would exceed all its other revenue by September 2026 and account for 99% of the company's value within five years, targeting 10 gigawatts of AI compute capacity - up from 1.4 GW at the end of Q2 - by the end of 2027. On August 25 SpaceX announced a $100 billion Starbase Louisiana spaceport in Vermilion Parish, with construction expected in 2027 and a first launch targeted as soon as 2029. A Falcon Heavy flew its 13th mission on August 30, 2026, launching NASA's Roman Space Telescope with both side boosters landing intact at Cape Canaveral, a day after NASA and SpaceX postponed the planned September 12 Crew-13 ISS launch when an oxidizer leak was found in Dragon's propulsion system during prelaunch processing. A mid-August 13F filing also disclosed Nvidia holds roughly $21B of SpaceX stock via its earlier xAI investment, as SpaceX committed on its August 4 earnings call to building its future AI compute exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin architecture. 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In its first earnings report as a public company on August 4, 2026, SpaceX posted Q2 2026 revenue of $7.8B (up 92% year over year, beating consensus by nearly $1B) and a narrower-than-expected net loss of $541M ($0.09/share). By segment: Connectivity (Starlink) $4.29B on $1.66B operating profit, AI $2.56B (up 247% YoY) on a $1.26B operating loss, and Space $962M (up 29% YoY) on a $542M operating loss - Starlink remains the only consistently profitable segment as AI-infrastructure and Starship spending kept the others unprofitable.", "source": "https://s21.q4cdn.com/184289198/files/doc_financials/2026/q2/SpaceX-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-Results.pdf", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, "operatingStatus": { "status": "Operational", "detail": "Fully operational launch, spacecraft, broadband, government-satellite, and AI-compute business. SpaceX remains the world's leading launch provider, logging its 100th mission of 2026 on August 19 (97th Falcon 9 flight of the year) and its 651st cumulative Falcon-family booster landing the same day - the third straight year it has topped 100 launches. It runs Starlink and Starshield alongside its Falcon and Dragon programs, and returned Starship V3 to flight on July 24, 2026 (Flight 13, the program's cleanest mission yet) after the FAA closed its Flight 12 mishap investigation on July 13; recovery crews then spent 24 days towing the intact Flight 13 upper stage (Ship 40) through rough seas to Christmas Island, Australia by August 18, 2026 - the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after flight - before the semi-submersible vessel Forte departed Christmas Island on August 28, 2026 to carry it roughly 20,000 km back to Starbase, Texas. On August 28, 2026 SpaceX also completed a full-duration 33-engine static fire of the Super Heavy booster assigned to Flight 14 at Starbase. Flight 14 slipped past its 'late August' target: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said August 14 he expected early September, but an August 20 airspace-planning briefing pointed to a September 15, 2026 target, and Musk said the first tower catch of the upper stage itself will wait 'a few months' beyond Flight 14. A Falcon Heavy separately flew its 13th mission on August 30, 2026, launching NASA's Roman Space Telescope with both side boosters landing back at Cape Canaveral. NASA and SpaceX postponed the planned September 12, 2026 Crew-13 ISS launch on August 29, 2026 after finding an oxidizer leak in Dragon's propulsion system during prelaunch processing, with a new target date pending investigation. SpaceX posted its first earnings as a public company on August 4, 2026 (Q2 2026 revenue of $7.8B, up 92% year over year, narrowing its net loss to $541M) and absorbed an August 6 lock-up expiration that freed roughly 911.5M shares (~$116B) without derailing the stock, which climbed back above its $135 IPO price in mid-August before a second, ~319M-share lock-up tranche on August 20 briefly pushed it back below $135; shares closed at $141.50 on August 30, then rose about 7% to $150.84 on September 3 after Oppenheimer raised its price target to $280 from $250 on rising confidence in the AI-compute business, with Starship Flight 14 (now targeted around September 15) as the next catalyst investors are watching. On August 4 Musk also pulled SpaceX's internal $1 trillion annual-revenue target forward to 2030 and committed SpaceX to building its future AI compute exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin architecture, targeting 2 GW installed by the end of 2026 en route to 10 GW by the end of 2027; a 13F filing disclosed August 14, 2026 that Nvidia in turn holds roughly $21B of SpaceX stock via its earlier xAI investment. Following the February 2026 xAI merger, SpaceX also operates the Memphis Colossus supercomputers as an AI hyperscaler, with disclosed multi-year compute contracts worth $80B+ to Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI plus $14.1B of new Cloud Services Agreements signed in Q2 2026 alone; on August 11, 2026 Elon Musk told employees SpaceX's AI compute revenue would exceed all its other business lines by September 2026 and account for 99% of company value within five years. The same week SpaceX disclosed Starlink had grown past 13M consumer subscribers and 22M monthly Starlink Mobile users. SpaceX closed its $60B acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor's parent Anysphere on August 15, 2026. Press reporting in August 2026 also tallies SpaceX's Golden Dome missile-defense contract awards at more than $8B.", "source": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/09/03/spacex-rises-7-as-starship-test-14-approaches-tesla-jumps-7-rocket-lab-ticks-up/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-04" }, "revenueStreams": [ { "name": "Starlink Subscriptions", "description": "Recurring broadband subscriptions for residential, roaming, maritime, aviation, enterprise, and government users on the Starlink network - SpaceX's largest and only profitable segment, generating ~$11.4B of connectivity revenue in 2025 ($3.3B in Q1 2026).", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/spacex-starlink-growth-profit-nasdaq-ipo.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "Starlink Mobile (Direct-to-Cell)", "description": "Direct-to-cell service for messaging, voice, data, and IoT connectivity, currently sold through carrier partners (T-Mobile, Rogers, KDDI, One NZ, Optus, Telstra, Salt, Entel Peru, Entel Chile, Kyivstar, Virgin Media O2). With the FCC's May 2026 approval of its ~$17B EchoStar mid-band spectrum purchase, SpaceX is moving toward selling Starlink Mobile directly to US consumers and competing with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.", "source": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fcc-approves-echostars-40bn-spectrum-sales-to-att-spacex/", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-29" }, { "name": "NASA Crew & Cargo Missions", "description": "Dragon missions for NASA crew rotation, cargo resupply, and private astronaut flights to the International Space Station.", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "Commercial Launch Services", "description": "Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches for commercial satellite operators, including rideshare missions at $275K for 50 kg to SSO.", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/rideshare", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "name": "National Security Launches", "description": "Launch services for U.S. Space Force and NRO missions, including Phase 3 Lane 2 national security launch awards, plus the growing Golden Dome missile-defense book: a $4.16B Space Force AMTI satellite award and $2.29B Space Data Network Backbone award in May 2026 put SpaceX's confirmed Golden Dome-specific contracts at roughly $6.45B, and press reporting on August 20, 2026 that also counts the $1.6B, 18-launch Space-Based Sensing and Targeting order (awarded July 29, 2026) toward the program puts SpaceX's total Golden Dome-related awards above $8B - at least a third of Golden Dome contracts issued to date.", "source": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/24/spacex-has-already-won-more-than-8-billion-from-golden-dome-this-could-be-just-the-beginning/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "name": "Starshield Government Services", "description": "Government-focused satellite services built on SpaceX launch and Starlink platform capabilities for secure communications and other national-security missions.", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/starshield/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "AI Compute Services (Colossus)", "description": "Multi-year GPU compute capacity sold to external AI customers from the Memphis Colossus supercomputers (Colossus 1 acquired in the February 2026 xAI merger). Disclosed customers include Anthropic ($1.25B/month for the full ~220,000-GPU, 300 MW Colossus 1 capacity through May 2029), Google ($920M/month for ~110,000 GPUs from October 2026 through June 2029), and Reflection AI (up to $6.3B, ~$150M/month from July 2026 through 2029 for NVIDIA GB300 capacity at Colossus 2). Colossus 2 - previously under construction - became operational September 3, 2026 and was reported as the world's largest AI data center by IT power capacity (roughly 946 MW, with Epoch AI estimating around 1.1 million H100-equivalent compute units), giving SpaceX a second large leasable facility alongside Colossus 1.", "source": "https://www.credaily.com/briefs/colossus-2-becomes-fastest-growing-ai-data-center-in-the-world/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" } ], "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "Falcon Booster Landings", "value": "657 (cumulative Falcon-family landing count including the two Falcon Heavy side boosters that landed at LZ-2 and LZ-40 on August 30, 2026 during the Roman Space Telescope launch, up from 655 as of booster B1082's August 26, 2026 landing on the Starlink 15-22 mission from Vandenberg. Booster B1067 separately set the fleet's individual-booster reuse record with its 37th flight and landing on August 25, 2026, on the Starlink 10-49 mission)", "source": "https://spacenews.com/falcon-heavy-launches-nasas-roman-space-telescope/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "label": "Valuation", "value": "SPCX hit a new all-time low of $107.01 intraday on July 28, 2026 before closing at $116.49 - down ~14% from its $135 IPO price and about 48% below its $225.64 June 16 closing high. SpaceX posted its first earnings as a public company on August 4, 2026: Q2 2026 revenue of $7.8B (up 92% year over year, beating the ~$6.7-6.8B consensus by nearly $1B) and a narrower-than-expected net loss of $541M ($0.09/share loss vs. a ~$0.26 consensus estimate), with $47.5B in backlog and $100B of cash on hand. Shares initially fell on the print as investors weighed AI-infrastructure capex (Q2 capex of $18.4B, incl. $15.83B on AI infrastructure), then rallied and closed at $138.74 on August 10, 2026, up 4.2% and back above the $135 IPO price for the first time since mid-July, after the August 6 lock-up expiration released roughly 911.5M shares (~$116B) - the largest such unlock in market history - without derailing the recovery. That recovery proved short-lived: a second lock-up tranche (~319M shares, the Day-70 calendar release) freed up on August 20, 2026 and sent SPCX as much as ~6% lower intraday, dipping back below the $135 IPO price for the first time since mid-July. Shares climbed back to $146.23 by August 17, 2026 before easing to close at $140.87 on August 28, 2026 - up about 0.9% that day as news of Ship 40's successful ocean recovery buoyed the stock - then ticked up further to close at $141.50 on August 30, 2026, holding modestly above the $135 IPO price. Shares extended that recovery to close up about 7% at $150.84 on September 3, 2026, after Oppenheimer analyst Timothy Horan raised his price target to $280 from $250, citing growing confidence SpaceX can become a major AI compute player; investor attention was also turning to the approaching Starship Flight 14 test", "source": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/09/03/spacex-rises-7-as-starship-test-14-approaches-tesla-jumps-7-rocket-lab-ticks-up/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-04" }, { "label": "2026 Falcon Launches", "value": "104 Falcon 9 launches YTD as of September 10, 2026 (USSF-153 classified U.S. Space Force mission from Vandenberg SLC-4E at 8:42 a.m. PT; first-stage booster on its 27th flight landed on droneship Of Course I Still Love You). The Debrief reported USSF-153 as SpaceX's 104th Falcon 9 of 2026. Gwynne Shotwell has guided to ~140-145 Falcon 9 flights for the full year", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/ussf153", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-10" }, { "label": "2025 Launches", "value": "165 Falcon missions (annual record; 167 orbital flights incl. Starship)", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-shatters-its-rocket-launch-record-yet-again-167-orbital-flights-in-2025", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-29" }, { "label": "Starlink Customers", "value": "12M subscribers at the close of Q2 2026 (June 30), with ARPU of $66/month (up 17% quarter over quarter) on $4.29B of Connectivity revenue for the quarter. On August 11, 2026 SpaceX publicly posted a Musk-hosted employee all-hands meeting disclosing Starlink had grown past 13M consumer subscribers, plus 22M monthly Starlink Mobile (direct-to-cell) users. SpaceX targets ~25M active users by year-end 2026", "source": "https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/spacex-reaches-milestone-starlink-internet-032052994.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-02" }, { "label": "Disclosed AI Compute Backlog", "value": "$80B+ multi-year contract value through 2029 (Anthropic ~$45B at $1.25B/mo through May 2029, Google ~$30B at $920M/mo Oct 2026-Jun 2029, Reflection AI up to $6.3B at Colossus 2) - combined the three deals run at roughly $2.32B/month, or about $27.8B annualized. No new named compute customer had been disclosed since Reflection AI in June 2026 as of September 2, 2026. Separately, SpaceX's own Q2 2026 earnings report discloses $14.1B of new Cloud Services Agreements signed in the quarter alone (its non-cancellable-period accounting) plus a further $6.7B booked in the opening weeks of Q3 2026", "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/spacex-three-ai-customers-paying-142713017.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-02" } ], "nextSteps": [ { "title": "Demonstrate Starship V3 booster catch and orbital propellant transfer", "description": "Flight 13 succeeded on July 24, 2026 - the program's first operational Starlink V3 deployment (20 satellites) and controlled splashdowns of both stages - clearing SpaceX to attack the harder V3 milestones. Recovery crews spent 24 days towing the intact Flight 13 upper stage (Ship 40) through rough seas across the Indian Ocean, reaching Christmas Island, Australia on August 18, 2026 - the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after flight. SpaceX engineers inspected Ship 40 in place, collecting heat-shield samples that Musk said confirmed the heat-shield problem is solved, before loading it onto the semi-submersible vessel Forte, which departed Christmas Island on August 28, 2026 for the roughly 20,000 km trip back to Starbase, Texas. On August 28, 2026 SpaceX also completed a full-duration 33-engine static fire of the Super Heavy booster assigned to Flight 14 at Starbase, following a six-engine static fire of that flight's Ship. Flight 14 (hardware Ship 41 and Booster 21) slipped past its 'late August' target: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said August 14, 2026 that SpaceX was tracking an early-September launch, but an August 20, 2026 airspace-planning briefing for air-traffic managers instead pointed to a September 15, 2026 target. On August 20, 2026 Musk also said Flight 14 will not attempt the first launch-tower catch of the upper stage itself after all; SpaceX now expects to try the ship catch 'in a few months,' pushing the first Starship reflight out to around the end of 2026 or early 2027. A public FCC filing submitted around September 1, 2026 confirmed the September 15, 2026 target and, for the first time, that Flight 14 will attempt a genuine orbital insertion rather than the suborbital arc every prior Starship flight (including Flight 13) has flown - meaning the roughly 20 Starlink V3 satellites it carries are planned to reach an operational orbit and join the constellation, unlike Flight 13's satellites, which reentered with the ship because that flight never reached orbit. The filing also states the Super Heavy booster will return to the launch site for a tower-catch attempt, while the ship itself is still slated for an ocean splashdown rather than a catch. On September 2, 2026 the FAA issued a Finding of No Significant Impact for expanded Pacific reentry contingency landing areas and an additional Starship return trajectory to Starbase, a required environmental step before the Office of Commercial Space Transportation can modify SpaceX's vehicle operator license to use those corridors. Beyond Flight 14, the roadmap runs through flying Starlink V3 on a rapid cadence and demonstrating an orbital ship-to-ship propellant transfer - the in-space refueling demo that FCC filings and the Artemis HLS contract both hinge on.", "targetDate": "September 15, 2026 (Flight 14, per FCC filing); ship catch a few months later", "source": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_starship/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-06" }, { "title": "Next post-IPO lock-up tranche unlocks (~September 9, 2026)", "description": "SpaceX's second lock-up tranche - the Day-70 calendar release, ~319 million shares - actually unlocked on August 20, 2026, not August 31 as previously tracked here, and sent SPCX as much as ~6% lower intraday, dipping below its $135 IPO price for the first time since the June debut (see milestoneHistory). The next scheduled release is the similarly sized Day-90 tranche around September 9, 2026, followed by further calendar tranches around September 24 and October 9 and 24, 2026, before the remaining 180-day lock-up on Elon Musk's roughly 6.4B shares expires December 8, 2026.", "targetDate": "2026-09-09", "source": "https://www.benzinga.com/trading-ideas/movers/26/08/61329245/spacexs-second-unlock-hits-319-million-shares-go-loose-today", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28" }, { "title": "Artemis lunar lander (HLS)", "description": "NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said August 14, 2026 he is 'extremely confident' Artemis III will launch in 2027, saying NASA tracks 'every single component' of the program 'down to the day, down to the hour' - and tied that confidence directly to SpaceX's Starship cadence, saying that if Flight 14 flies in early September as planned and SpaceX keeps flying roughly every few weeks through year-end, NASA will 'feel very good' about Starship's readiness to contribute to Artemis III. NASA and SpaceX completed wind-tunnel testing of the upgraded Super Heavy V3 booster at NASA Ames in 2026, verifying the aerodynamic loads it will face returning from lunar missions. Artemis III is a late-2027 low-Earth-orbit demonstration testing rendezvous and docking between Orion and uncrewed pathfinder versions of both SpaceX's Starship HLS and Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 2, with the first crewed lunar landing pushed out to Artemis IV in early 2028. Progress still hinges on SpaceX demonstrating reliable Starship V3 flights - including Flight 14, now expected around September 15, 2026 - and the in-orbit propellant-transfer capability the lunar lander depends on. As of September 4, 2026, Isaacman's August 14 statement remains NASA's most recent public assessment; no new HLS schedule update had been issued since.", "targetDate": "2027-2028", "source": "https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/isaacman-extremely-confident-artemis-iii-will-launch-in-2027/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-04" }, { "title": "Launch Starmind AI1 orbital-compute prototype", "description": "SpaceX and Nvidia are jointly developing Starmind, satellites pairing a space-optimized version of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 system (Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs) to run AI workloads from low Earth orbit. On August 24, 2026 Elon Musk said the first-generation AI1 satellite (roughly 20 meters tall, 70 meters wide, about 150 kilowatts peak power and 120 kilowatts average compute) will now launch in Q4 2027, pulled forward from a prior 2028 target, with volume launches and a larger commercial orbital-compute constellation reaching significant scale in 2028. The announcement drove a roughly 3% jump in SpaceX shares.", "targetDate": "Q4 2027", "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-24/spacex-s-musk-sees-orbital-data-center-launch-near-end-of-2027", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-27" }, { "title": "Start construction of Starbase Louisiana", "description": "SpaceX's $100 billion Vermilion Parish spaceport is planned as five launch complexes (two pads each) with on-site propellant production, power generation, vehicle processing and housing. Construction is expected to begin in 2027, with SpaceX targeting a first Starship launch as soon as 2029; Louisiana Economic Development has said initial operations are expected around 2030. The project is expected to create 3,000 direct jobs over 10 years at an average salary of about $92,600.", "targetDate": "Construction 2027; first launch as soon as 2029", "source": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/spacex-launches-new-era-of-commercial-spaceflight-with-100-billion-louisiana-campus", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-27" }, { "title": "Build Terafab, a joint SpaceX-Tesla chip factory in Texas", "description": "SpaceX and Tesla confirmed on August 6, 2026 that their jointly developed Terafab semiconductor factory will be sited in Grimes County, Texas (Gibbons Creek Reservoir, outside College Station), with an initial investment phase of $16.8 billion and at least 3,000 jobs planned. The vertically integrated, roughly 100-million-square-foot plant, to be operated by SpaceX as the high-volume production site, is designed to make, package and test advanced logic and memory chips, supplying high-power silicon for SpaceX's planned space-based AI data centers as well as Tesla's Optimus and Cybercab compute needs; total investment could reach $119 billion if further phases are built out, though SpaceX's own S-1 has characterized the plan as a non-binding general framework. Intel joined the project in April 2026 as its named foundry partner, committing its next-generation 14A process node - Intel's first major external 14A customer. The Grimes County tax incentives cleared their remaining hurdles in July 2026, when the Iola and Anderson-Shiro Consolidated Independent School Districts approved a combined $1.66 billion in property-tax abatements under the Texas JETI program, following county commissioners' earlier 4-1 vote for a reinvestment zone and 100% county tax abatement. As of mid-August 2026 the Grimes County site was reported to be in site-development, financing, equipment-ordering and early-construction stages; neither company has announced a formal groundbreaking ceremony, a completion date, or a first-output target for the full-scale facility.", "targetDate": "Late 2020s", "source": "https://www.itechguides.com/tesla-terafab-what-the-25-billion-chip-fab-plan-actually-means-in-august-2026/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-04" }, { "title": "Mars cargo architecture", "description": "Flight 13's July 24, 2026 success - the first operational Starlink V3 deployment - proved Starship V3 can reach space and deploy payloads, but the architecture for regular Mars cargo missions still depends on unproven capabilities: Super Heavy booster catch and rapid reuse, in-space propellant transfer between two Starships, and long-duration ship operations. The Flight 13 upper stage (Ship 40) was itself recovered intact after a 24-day ocean tow to Christmas Island, Australia (arriving August 18, 2026) and departed for Starbase, Texas aboard the vessel Forte on August 28, 2026, giving engineers a first-ever intact post-flight ship to inspect. No Mars-specific test has flown since Flight 13; the near-term gating step remains Flight 14, now targeted for around September 15, 2026 (slipped past its 'late August' target), with the first tower-catch attempt of the upper stage pushed further out to 'a few months' after that. The S-1 explicitly anchors the long-term mission of 'making life multiplanetary' on this architecture.", "targetDate": "Late 2020s+", "source": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/spacex-rocket-begins-journey-back-to-texas-from-christmas-island/107079554", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-29" }, { "title": "Scale AI compute capacity toward 10 GW", "description": "In an August 11, 2026 address to employees, Elon Musk said SpaceX's AI compute business would exceed all its other revenue lines by September 2026 and 'significantly' exceed them by Q4, and that AI would account for 'probably 99%' of SpaceX's value within five years. On the August 4, 2026 earnings call Musk had already committed SpaceX to building its future AI compute exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin architecture, with an interim target of 2 GW of installed compute online by the end of 2026 - up from 1.4 GW at the end of Q2 2026 - en route to 10 GW by the end of 2027, which he estimated could generate $300B-$500B in annual revenue at a value of $30-$50 per watt.", "targetDate": "2 GW by end of 2026; 10 GW by end of 2027", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/spacex-could-make-usd500-billion-in-2027-elon-musk-says", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "title": "Fix AI data-center reliability and meet the Google GPU delivery deadline", "description": "SpaceX replaced several leaders of its AI data-center build-out in early September 2026 after reliability and civil-engineering problems surfaced at its Tennessee and Mississippi sites, which had run for months without backup cooling or power; the Macrohard facility relied on more than 100 mobile chillers and posted uptime well below SpaceX's internal 99.9% target, with temporary power and cooling contributing to outages that interrupted AI training. Rocket-production executive Wesley Salandro and Starbase operations director Logan McConnell moved in to run data centers as prior leaders Jake Palmer, Zach Wells and Pablo Mendoza departed, while senior Starlink executive Michael Nicolls was installed to oversee xAI. The reshuffle comes ahead of a September 30, 2026 deadline for SpaceX to deliver the GPUs committed under its roughly $920 million-a-month, ~110,000-GPU compute deal with Google; after a one-month grace period, Google can terminate the agreement or accept fewer GPUs with proportionally reduced payments if SpaceX falls short.", "targetDate": "2026-09-30", "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/spacex-ai-buildout-shows-cracks-184838938.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "title": "Launch Crew-13 to the ISS", "description": "NASA had moved up SpaceX's Crew-13 mission from a planned November launch to September 12, 2026 to increase ISS crew-rotation cadence, but on August 29, 2026 NASA and SpaceX postponed that date after an oxidizer leak was detected on Dragon's propulsion system during standard prelaunch processing. Joint teams are running additional tests and data review, with any needed rework to be completed before a new target date is set. The Dragon flight will carry NASA's Jessica Watkins (commander) and Luke Delaney (pilot), CSA's Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos's Sergey Teteryatnikov on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, continuing the Commercial Crew Program's regular ISS rotations.", "targetDate": "TBD (postponed from September 12, 2026 pending Dragon propulsion-leak investigation)", "source": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/08/29/nasa-spacex-adjust-crew-13-launch-date/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "title": "Hit $1 trillion in annual revenue by 2030", "description": "On SpaceX's August 4, 2026 earnings call - its first as a public company - Elon Musk pulled the company's internal $1 trillion annual-revenue target forward a year, to 2030 from a prior 2031 goal, and said there is a 'non-zero chance' of reaching it as soon as 2029. Hitting $1T from 2025's $18.67B consolidated revenue base implies a roughly 122% five-year compound annual growth rate, a pace Musk is betting on AI-compute revenue (which he has separately said could reach $300B-$500B annually by the end of 2027) to deliver alongside Starlink and launch. As of September 4, 2026 this remains the standing target; the September 3, 2026 Oppenheimer price-target increase to $280 cited growing analyst confidence in the AI-compute thesis underpinning it, but no revised revenue figure or timeline has been issued since the August 4 call.", "targetDate": "2030", "source": "https://www.benzinga.com/news/space/26/08/60937474/elon-musk-pulls-forward-1-trillion-revenue-target-for-spacex-as-revenue-jumps-92-theres-a-non-zero-chance", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-04" } ], "milestoneHistory": [ { "title": "Launch Crew-13 to the ISS on schedule (September 12, 2026)", "targetDate": "2026-09-12", "source": "https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/nasa/2026/08/03/558561/nasa-spacex-iss-launch-cybertrucks-elon-musk/", "status": "slipped", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-29", "outcomeNote": "NASA and SpaceX postponed the planned September 12, 2026 Crew-13 launch after detecting an oxidizer leak on Dragon's propulsion system during standard prelaunch processing. Joint teams are running additional tests and data review, with any needed rework completed before a new target date is announced; the mission remains expected to fly once the investigation closes.", "outcomeSource": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/08/29/nasa-spacex-adjust-crew-13-launch-date/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "title": "Second post-IPO lock-up tranche unlocks (Day-70, ~319M shares)", "targetDate": "2026-08-20 (Day-70 calendar lock-up tranche)", "source": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/spacex-ipo-lockup-expiry-123b-in-shares-set-to-unlock-in-early-august-2026-93CH-4796311", "status": "hit", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-20", "outcomeNote": "SpaceX's second post-IPO lock-up tranche unlocked on schedule on August 20, 2026, freeing roughly 319 million additional shares (the Day-70 calendar release under the IPO lock-up agreement). SPCX fell as much as ~6% intraday and closed below its $135 IPO price for the first time since its June debut - a sharper reaction than the far larger August 6 unlock (911.5M shares), which the stock absorbed with a 6% gain. The next scheduled tranche (~319M shares, Day-90) falls around September 9, 2026.", "outcomeSource": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/20/spacex-drops-6-dips-below-its-ipo-price-as-319m-shares-unlock-rocket-lab-falls-4/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28" }, { "title": "Close $60B Cursor (Anysphere) acquisition", "targetDate": "Late August 2026", "source": "https://satnews.com/2026/08/12/spacex-finalizes-regulatory-procedures-to-close-60-billion-acquisition-of-ai-platform-cursor/", "status": "hit", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-15", "outcomeNote": "SpaceX officially closed its all-stock acquisition of Cursor-maker Anysphere on August 15, 2026, ahead of the late-August target, giving Cursor access to SpaceX's GPU fleet including the Colossus supercomputer for AI model training. The deal, first agreed June 16, 2026, is the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup ever; Cursor and SpaceX have already jointly trained Grok models on Cursor's coding data.", "outcomeSource": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-cursor-60-billion-ai-acquisition/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-18" }, { "title": "First public earnings report as a public company", "targetDate": "August 2026", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/spacex-spcx-earnings-lock-up-expiration.html", "status": "hit", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-04", "outcomeNote": "SpaceX posted its first earnings as a public company on August 4, 2026: Q2 revenue of $7.8B (up 92% year over year, beating consensus by nearly $1B) and a narrower-than-expected $541M net loss ($0.09/share). Shares fell on the print as investors weighed AI-infrastructure capex despite the beat. The related August 6 lock-up expiration is a separate, still-upcoming event - see the current nextSteps entry.", "outcomeSource": "https://s21.q4cdn.com/184289198/files/doc_financials/2026/q2/SpaceX-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-Results.pdf", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-05" }, { "title": "Record lock-up unlock and post-earnings stock reaction", "targetDate": "August 2026", "source": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/spacex-ipo-lockup-expiry-123b-in-shares-set-to-unlock-in-early-august-2026-93CH-4796311", "status": "hit", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-06", "outcomeNote": "SpaceX's first post-IPO lock-up expired on August 6, 2026 as scheduled, freeing up to 911.5 million insider shares (worth roughly $100B) and more than doubling the public float to about 11.8% of shares outstanding from 4.9%. Despite the dilution, SPCX stock rose about 6.1% that day.", "outcomeSource": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacexs-lockup-expires-aug-6-080500494.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-12" } ], "timeline": [ { "year": 2002, "title": "Founded", "description": "Elon Musk founds SpaceX with the goal of reducing space transportation costs.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Founding", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2008, "title": "Falcon 1 reaches orbit", "description": "First privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to reach Earth orbit.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2010, "title": "Falcon 9 first flight", "description": "Successful maiden flight of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2012, "title": "Dragon docks with ISS", "description": "First commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2015, "title": "First booster landing", "description": "Falcon 9 first stage lands successfully after an orbital mission - a historic first.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_flight_20", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2020, "title": "Crew Dragon Demo-2", "description": "First crewed orbital mission by a private company, sending NASA astronauts to the ISS.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2023, "title": "Starship test flights begin", "description": "Starship/Super Heavy conducts first integrated flight tests from Starbase, Texas.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2024, "title": "Starship booster catch & Polaris Dawn", "description": "Super Heavy booster caught by launch tower 'chopstick' arms (Flight 5). Polaris Dawn mission reaches 1,408 km altitude - highest crewed orbit since Apollo - and conducts first commercial EVA.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Dawn", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2025, "title": "Record 165 launches & Starlink Direct-to-Cell", "description": "SpaceX sets annual launch record with 165 Falcon missions. Starlink direct-to-cell SMS service goes live in the US and New Zealand via T-Mobile and One NZ. Starship completes 7 more test flights (Flights 7–11).", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-shatters-its-rocket-launch-record-yet-again-167-orbital-flights-in-2025", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2025, "title": "Secondary sale values SpaceX at about $800B", "description": "A secondary share sale values SpaceX at roughly $800B, underscoring the scale of its launch and Starlink businesses ahead of public-market preparations.", "source": "https://www.business-standard.com/markets/ipo/spacex-files-for-ipo-confidentially-eyes-usd-1-75-trillion-valuation-report-126040101452_1.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "xAI merger and public IPO filing", "description": "SpaceX absorbs xAI in an all-stock deal in February 2026, then on May 20, 2026 files a public S-1 to list on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX at an implied valuation near $1.75T, with pricing expected June 11. The filing discloses $18.67B in 2025 consolidated revenue, a $2.59B operating loss, and $6.58B adjusted EBITDA.", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "First Starship V3 flight (Flight 12)", "description": "On May 22, 2026 the first Starship V3 launches from Starbase Pad 2. The upper stage completes a full-duration suborbital flight, deploys 22 Starlink simulators, and splashes down in the Indian Ocean, while the Super Heavy booster is lost during its return burn.", "source": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-first-starship-v3/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FAA classifies Flight 12 a mishap and grounds Starship V3", "description": "On May 27, 2026 the FAA formally classifies Starship Flight 12 as a mishap and requires SpaceX to complete an investigation - overseen by the agency - before Flight 13 can fly. The Super Heavy booster had failed to ignite all planned engines during its boostback maneuver, cutting the burn short and ending in the loss of the booster.", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$4.16B Space Force Golden Dome AMTI award", "description": "On May 29, 2026 the U.S. Space Force awards SpaceX a $4.16B contract to build a low-Earth-orbit constellation of airborne moving target indicator (AMTI) satellites for the Golden Dome homeland missile-defense initiative. The single award exceeds the combined prototype contracts of every other Golden Dome bidder and lifts SpaceX's total Golden Dome book to roughly $6.45B.", "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/spacex-wins-4-billion-contract-for-us-golden-dome-satellites", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq in largest IPO ever", "description": "On June 12, 2026 SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX, selling 555.6M Class A shares at the fixed $135 price to raise roughly $75B at a ~$1.77T valuation - the largest IPO in history, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's 2019 record. Reported total demand exceeded $250B with an unusually large retail allocation of up to 30% of the offering, and Elon Musk retained ~82% voting control through a multi-class share structure.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-price-date.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-12" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "IPO priced at $135 for $1.77T valuation", "description": "On June 3, 2026 SpaceX sets a fixed $135-per-share price for its Nasdaq IPO, targeting a $1.77T valuation and ~$75B in proceeds - the largest public offering in history. The roadshow opens June 4 with 555.6M shares on offer, Goldman Sachs leading a syndicate that includes Morgan Stanley, BofA, Citi and JPMorgan, trading expected to start under ticker SPCX on June 12, and Elon Musk retaining ~82% voting control.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/spacex-ipo-stock-price-roadshow-musk.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$1.25B/month Anthropic Colossus 1 compute deal", "description": "On May 6, 2026 SpaceX and Anthropic announce a multi-year compute agreement under which Anthropic will use the full capacity of SpaceX's Memphis Colossus 1 data center - more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300 MW - for $1.25B per month through May 2029. The deal is the first major external customer for SpaceX's post-xAI-merger AI hyperscaler business.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$30B Google Colossus 1 compute deal", "description": "An amended SpaceX S-1 disclosed June 5, 2026 reveals a multi-year cloud-services agreement with Alphabet's Google under which Google will pay $920M/month from October 2026 through June 2029 - about $30B in aggregate - for ~110,000 NVIDIA GPUs plus CPUs, memory, and related infrastructure routed through Memphis Colossus 1. With 90-day mutual termination rights after Dec. 31, 2026, the pact lifts SpaceX's disclosed AI-compute backlog above $70B alongside the May Anthropic deal, days before the Nasdaq SPCX debut.", "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starlink crosses 12M active customers", "description": "On June 4, 2026 SpaceX announces Starlink has surpassed 12 million active customers across more than 160 countries and territories, with ~27,700 new customers added per day on average over the prior ~53 days. The constellation now exceeds 10,400 working satellites in orbit, and SpaceX uses the milestone to outline V3 satellite plans that target greater-than-100x available bandwidth at a lower 350 km operating altitude.", "source": "https://www.techspot.com/news/112669-starlink-crosses-12-million-active-users-spacex-outlines.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-07" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 booster sets 35-flight orbital reuse record", "description": "On June 8, 2026 - days after SpaceX's Nasdaq debut - Falcon 9 booster B1067 launched and landed for a record 35th time on the Starlink 10-35 mission from Cape Canaveral, the most flights ever by an orbital-class rocket stage. The milestone puts Falcon 9 within reach of the 39-flight reuse mark set by NASA's Space Shuttle orbiters, which SpaceX intends to surpass as it certifies boosters for up to 40 flights.", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-10-35-b1067-ccsfs-asog", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Up-to-$6.3B Reflection AI Colossus 2 compute deal", "description": "On June 22, 2026 SpaceX agreed a multi-year cloud-compute deal worth up to $6.3B under which open-source AI startup Reflection will rent capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, paying about $150M per month from July 1, 2026 through 2029 for access to NVIDIA GB300 chips. Reflection - focused on open-source models for government and national-security customers - joins Anthropic, Google and Cursor as a disclosed Colossus customer, deepening SpaceX's commercialization of its post-xAI-merger AI hyperscaler business.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Debut investment-grade bond sale priced at $25B", "description": "On June 22, 2026 - ten days after its record IPO - SpaceX launched its first-ever investment-grade bond offering, and on June 23 priced it at $25B of senior unsecured notes, upsized from an initial $20B target after demand topped roughly $89B. The five-tranche deal (coupons from 5.350% on notes due 2031 to 6.650% on notes due 2056) settled June 26 and largely refinances a $20B bridge loan taken on in March. Offering documents disclosed roughly $100.8B in cash and equivalents as of June 19, 2026 and investment-grade ratings from Moody's, Fitch and S&P; SPCX shares fell more than 10% on the day the sale launched and over 20% across five sessions as investors weighed the pace of capital raising.", "source": "https://ir.spacex.com/updates/releases-details/2026/SpaceX-Announces-Pricing-of-25-Billion-Inaugural-Bond-Issuance-2026-33VwNgsx3O/default.aspx", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FCC clears ~$17B EchoStar spectrum buy; Shotwell unveils Starlink Mobile carrier push", "description": "In May 2026 the FCC approved SpaceX's ~$17B acquisition of EchoStar spectrum (part of a broader ~$40B sale that also gave AT&T 50 MHz), handing SpaceX 65 MHz of exclusive-use, contiguous nationwide mid-band spectrum (AWS-4, AWS-3, H-Block in the 1.9–2.2 GHz range) - its first dedicated direct-to-device spectrum, with licenses fully transferring by ~November 2027. On June 26, 2026 President Gwynne Shotwell told IPO-roadshow investors SpaceX plans to take Starlink Mobile directly to US consumers and compete head-on with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, potentially building its own terrestrial network.", "source": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fcc-approves-echostars-40bn-spectrum-sales-to-att-spacex/", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-29" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starfall cargo reentry capsule debut", "description": "On June 23, 2026 SpaceX launched the debut flight of Starfall, a disk-shaped cargo reentry capsule, on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. About 3.1 meters in diameter and able to carry roughly 1,000 kg, the vehicle is designed to return research and orbital-manufacturing payloads - such as pharmaceuticals - to Earth, splashing down about 700 nautical miles off the U.S. West Coast. The mission marks SpaceX's entry into the commercial cargo-return market and is the first of at least two planned Starfall demonstrations.", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/23/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-reentry-capsule-demo-mission-called-starfall/", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "SpaceX added to the Nasdaq-100 index", "description": "SpaceX joined the Nasdaq-100 index effective July 7, 2026 - only 15 trading days after its record June 12 IPO - under Nasdaq's new fast-track rule that admits mega-listings on their 15th trading day. The inclusion forces the more than $800B of funds tracking the index to buy SPCX, though its initial weighting starts small (an estimated 0.5%-0.7%) because less than 5% of its shares trade freely. It makes SpaceX one of the first launch companies in a major U.S. large-cap benchmark.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/spacex-added-to-nasdaq-100.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 13 aborted seconds before liftoff", "description": "On July 16, 2026 - SpaceX's first Starship launch attempt since its June Nasdaq debut - the Flight 13 countdown triggered an automatic abort when at least four of Super Heavy's 33 Raptor engines failed to ignite during the startup sequence. The flight, carrying the first 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites, was scrubbed at Starbase. Elon Musk said two Raptor engines would be removed and replaced 'to be confident of a good flight,' with the next attempt most likely early the following week.", "source": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-aborts-starship-flight-13-launch-attempt/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 13 succeeds; first operational Starlink V3 deploy", "description": "On July 24, 2026 SpaceX flew Starship Flight 13 from Starbase, Texas, the second flight of the Version 3 vehicle and its cleanest mission to date. Super Heavy lit all 33 Raptor 3 engines at liftoff and made a controlled offshore splashdown, though only about five of its planned landing-burn engines relit and it came down faster than intended. The upper stage reached space, deployed the program's first 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites - SpaceX later confirmed contact with all 20 - and performed the program's softest ship splashdown yet in the Indian Ocean. Each V3 satellite is designed for roughly 1 Tbps of downlink, and a full 60-satellite Starship load can add about 60 Tbps, some 20 times a Falcon 9 batch of V2 Mini satellites.", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-makes-the-softest-splashdown-ever-after-launching-next-gen-starlink-satellites-in-flight-13-test-video", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-25" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$1.6B Space Force order for 18 Falcon 9 launches", "description": "On July 29, 2026 the U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX two task orders worth $1.6B for 18 Falcon 9 launches carrying Space-Based Sensing and Targeting satellites - an orbital early-warning system for spotting airborne threats - from Vandenberg Space Force Base through the end of 2027. The award, issued under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program, pushes SpaceX's 2026 Space Force contract total above $8B.", "source": "https://thedefensepost.com/2026/07/30/us-rocket-launch-spacex/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-30" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Launches classified NROL-95 mission for the NRO", "description": "On July 30, 2026 a Falcon 9 launches the classified NROL-95 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 program. Booster B1096 flies its seventh mission and lands at Landing Zone 2; payload deployment coverage is withheld at the NRO's request.", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/29/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-classified-payload-for-national-reconnaissance-office/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-02" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Agrees to acquire Cursor-maker Anysphere for $60B", "description": "Four days after its Nasdaq debut, SpaceX confirmed on June 16, 2026 it will acquire Anysphere, the AI coding startup behind Cursor, in an all-stock deal valuing Anysphere at $60B - the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup ever. SpaceX's wholly owned merger subsidiary X67 Inc. will absorb Anysphere, whose shareholders receive SpaceX Class A stock based on a seven-trading-day volume-weighted average price ahead of closing; the deal follows an April 2026 option giving SpaceX the choice between a $10B compute partnership or the full buyout, and is expected to close in Q3 2026 pending regulatory approval.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisition-ipo.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "First earnings report as a public company", "description": "SpaceX posted its first quarterly results as a public company on August 4, 2026: Q2 2026 revenue of $7.8B, up 92% year over year and beating the roughly $6.7-6.8B consensus by nearly $1B, with a narrower-than-expected net loss of $541M ($0.09/share) versus a ~$0.26 consensus estimate. The company disclosed $47.5B in backlog, $100B of cash on hand, and $18.4B of capex for the quarter (including $15.83B on AI infrastructure). On the same call Musk committed SpaceX to building its future AI compute exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin architecture, targeting 2 GW of installed compute online by the end of 2026 - up from 1.4 GW at quarter-end - en route to 10 GW by the end of 2027.", "source": "https://s21.q4cdn.com/184289198/files/doc_financials/2026/q2/SpaceX-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-Results.pdf", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Record post-IPO lock-up expires", "description": "SpaceX's first post-IPO lock-up expired on August 6, 2026 as scheduled, freeing up to 911.5 million insider shares (worth roughly $116B) and more than doubling the public float to about 11.8% of shares outstanding from 4.9%. Despite the dilution, SPCX rose about 6.1% that day and went on to close back above its $135 IPO price on August 10, 2026 for the first time since mid-July.", "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacexs-lockup-expires-aug-6-080500494.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starlink tops 13M subscribers and 22M Starlink Mobile users", "description": "SpaceX publicly posted a Musk-hosted employee all-hands meeting on August 11, 2026 disclosing that Starlink had grown past 13 million consumer subscribers - up from 12M at the June 30 close of Q2 - and 22 million monthly Starlink Mobile (direct-to-cell) users. In the same address Musk pulled SpaceX's internal $1 trillion annual-revenue target forward to 2030.", "source": "https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/spacex-reaches-milestone-starlink-internet-032052994.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Closes $60B Cursor (Anysphere) acquisition", "description": "SpaceX officially closed its all-stock acquisition of Anysphere, the AI coding startup behind Cursor, on August 15, 2026 - ahead of the late-August target set when the deal was agreed June 16, 2026. Cursor gains access to SpaceX's GPU fleet, including the Colossus supercomputer, to scale AI model training; the companies say they have already jointly trained Grok models using trillions of tokens of Cursor's coding data, extending SpaceX's AI-compute push that began with the February 2026 xAI merger.", "source": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-cursor-60-billion-ai-acquisition/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-18" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "100th mission of 2026 and 651st booster landing", "description": "SpaceX flew its 100th mission of 2026 on August 19 - a 24-satellite Starlink launch from Vandenberg that was also the year's 97th Falcon 9 flight - making it the third consecutive year SpaceX has topped 100 launches, reached about two months faster than in 2024. Booster B1097 landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You for the mission's cumulative 651st Falcon-family booster landing, five days after booster B1088 notched the 650th landing during a record 38.5-minute back-to-back Falcon 9 launch pair for Globalstar and a classified Space Force payload.", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-100-launches-2026-starlink-group-17-50-launch", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Last Florida Falcon 9 Starlink launch", "description": "SpaceX flew its final planned Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Florida on August 25, 2026, closing out roughly seven years and about 260 Starlink launches from Cape Canaveral's Pad 40 on that rocket. Going forward, all Florida Starlink launches will fly on Starship, with Falcon 9 Starlink missions continuing only from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the West Coast.", "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/spacex-ends-falcon-9-starlink-180904062.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-26" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Announces $100B Starbase Louisiana spaceport", "description": "SpaceX announced on August 25, 2026 a $100 billion investment to build its fourth and largest launch site at Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on former Exxon land. The planned campus includes five launch complexes of two pads each plus propellant production, power generation, vehicle processing and employee housing, with 3,000 direct jobs at an average salary of about $92,600. Construction is expected to begin in 2027, with SpaceX targeting a first launch as soon as 2029; Louisiana Economic Development has said initial operations are expected around 2030. Under the local incentive agreement, SpaceX will pay Vermilion Parish $25 million annually for 25 years (plus a $20 million upfront payment) and is offering area residents a 50% discount on Starlink internet service.", "source": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/spacex-launches-new-era-of-commercial-spaceflight-with-100-billion-louisiana-campus", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Second lock-up tranche unlocks; SPCX dips below IPO price", "description": "SpaceX's second post-IPO lock-up tranche unlocked on August 20, 2026 - the Day-70 calendar release under the IPO lock-up agreement - freeing roughly 319 million additional shares. SPCX fell as much as ~6% intraday and closed below its $135 IPO price for the first time since the June debut, a sharper reaction than the much larger August 6 unlock (911.5M shares), which the stock had absorbed with a 6% gain.", "source": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/20/spacex-drops-6-dips-below-its-ipo-price-as-319m-shares-unlock-rocket-lab-falls-4/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 tops 100 launches for the year; B1067 sets 37th-flight reuse record", "description": "On August 25, 2026 SpaceX flew its 100th Falcon 9 mission of the year - Starlink 10-49 from Cape Canaveral - with booster B1067 (in service since June 2021) setting a new individual-booster reuse record on its 37th flight and landing, closing in on the Space Shuttle orbiter fleet's all-time reuse record of 39.", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-record-37th-booster-flight-100-falcon-9-launches", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Flight 13 upper stage recovered intact; departs Christmas Island for Starbase", "description": "After 24 days battling rough seas in the Indian Ocean - and despite Elon Musk warning on August 7, 2026 that the odds were 'not looking good' - SpaceX recovery crews towed the intact Starship Flight 13 upper stage (Ship 40) to waters off Christmas Island, Australia by August 18, 2026, the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after a spaceflight. Engineers inspected the ship in place and collected heat-shield samples before loading it onto the semi-submersible transport vessel Forte, which departed Christmas Island on August 28, 2026 for the roughly 20,000 km voyage back to Starbase, Texas, expected to take several weeks.", "source": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/spacex-rocket-begins-journey-back-to-texas-from-christmas-island/107079554", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-29" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX", "description": "A 13F filing made public August 14, 2026 shows Nvidia held about 122.8 million SpaceX Class A shares worth roughly $21B at the end of Q2 2026 - SpaceX's second-largest public equity holding for Nvidia, about 33% of its 13F portfolio. The stake traces to Nvidia's $10B investment in xAI as part of a $20B round in January 2026, converted into SpaceX shares when SpaceX absorbed xAI in February 2026 and then into public SPCX stock at the June IPO.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/nvidia-discloses-21-billion-stake-in-spacex-at-end-of-second-quarter.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Golden Dome-related contracts tallied above $8B", "description": "Press reporting on August 20, 2026 tallied SpaceX's disclosed Golden Dome-related federal awards - the $4.16B SB-AMTI satellite contract and $2.29B Space Data Network Backbone contract from May 2026, plus the $1.6B Space-Based Sensing and Targeting Falcon 9 launch order from July 2026 - at more than $8B, above the roughly $6B SpaceX itself had confirmed on its August earnings call and representing at least a third of Golden Dome contracts issued to date.", "source": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/24/spacex-has-already-won-more-than-8-billion-from-golden-dome-this-could-be-just-the-beginning/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon Heavy launches NASA's Roman Space Telescope", "description": "On August 30, 2026 a Falcon Heavy lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center carrying NASA's $4.3B Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope toward the Sun-Earth L2 point - the rocket's 13th flight. Both side boosters landed back at Cape Canaveral (Landing Zone 2 and Landing Zone 40) while the center core was expended; Roman separated from the upper stage about 31 minutes after liftoff.", "source": "https://spacenews.com/falcon-heavy-launches-nasas-roman-space-telescope/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Super Heavy completes 33-engine static fire for Flight 14", "description": "On August 28, 2026 SpaceX fired all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster assigned to Starship Flight 14 for a full-duration static fire at the Starbase, Texas launch pad, posting video of the test the same day. The booster run follows a six-engine static fire of Flight 14's Ship and is a key ground-test gate before Starship's first planned orbital-class flight, which is also expected to deploy next-generation Starlink V3 satellites.", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-test-fires-starship-super-heavy-booster-ahead-of-key-test-flight", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FAA issues FONSI for Starship Pacific reentry and extra Starbase path", "description": "On September 2, 2026 the FAA published a Final Tiered Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for SpaceX Starship reentry contingency operations in the Pacific Ocean and an additional landing trajectory back to the Boca Chica launch site, with the Federal Register notice following on September 4. The review would support a later license modification adding a Northern Pacific Contingency Landing Area, expanding two existing Pacific splashdown zones, and authorizing temporary airspace closures for a new return-to-launch-site path. The FONSI is an environmental clearance, not itself a flight authorization or a Flight 14 date.", "source": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_starship/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-06" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches classified USSF-153 from Vandenberg", "description": "On September 10, 2026 at 8:42 a.m. PT, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying the classified USSF-153 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The first-stage booster was on its 27th flight and, after stage separation, landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific. The payload remains undisclosed. 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The Flight 13 upper stage (Ship 40) was towed intact through rough seas to Christmas Island, Australia by August 18, 2026 - the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after flight - and departed for Starbase, Texas aboard the semi-submersible vessel Forte on August 28, 2026, a roughly 20,000 km trip expected to take several weeks; engineers inspected the ship in place at Christmas Island and collected heat-shield samples. Flight 14 (hardware Ship 41 and Booster 21) slipped from a 'late August' target: Isaacman said August 14 he expected early September, but an August 20 airspace-planning briefing pointed to a September 15, 2026 target, and Musk said the first tower catch of the upper stage itself will wait 'a few months' beyond Flight 14. 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It is the world's dominant launch provider, the operator of the only large-scale low-Earth-orbit broadband network, a top-tier U.S. national-security contractor, and - as of 2026 - an AI hyperscaler renting out one of the world's largest GPU clusters. No competitor matches the breadth of that stack, and very few match SpaceX in any single layer of it.", "The throughline is radical vertical integration in service of a single thesis: drive the cost of access to space down by orders of magnitude through reusability, then use that cost advantage to build businesses - Starlink, Starshield, and eventually Mars settlement - that were previously uneconomic. Each layer funds the next. Cheap, high-cadence launch makes a megaconstellation viable; constellation revenue funds Starship; Starship is the vehicle Elon Musk built the company to fly to Mars." ], "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/spacex-ipo-filing-s1-total-addressable-market-make-life-multiplanetary/" }, { "heading": "From near-bankruptcy to orbit", "paragraphs": [ "Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies in 2002, pouring roughly $100M of his PayPal proceeds into a company most of the industry expected to fail. The first three Falcon 1 flights did fail; the company was nearly out of money when the fourth reached orbit in 2008, making Falcon 1 the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so and earning SpaceX a NASA cargo contract that kept it alive.", "What followed was a methodical climb up the capability ladder: Falcon 9's maiden flight in 2010, Dragon's first cargo delivery to the International Space Station in 2012, the first orbital-class booster landing in 2015, and the first crewed flight by a private company in 2020. Each milestone converted a one-time stunt into a routine operation, and by the mid-2020s SpaceX was launching more mass to orbit than every other operator and country on the planet combined." ], "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" }, { "heading": "The reusability flywheel", "paragraphs": [ "Falcon 9 is the engine of the whole company. By recovering and reflying first stages, SpaceX turned what had been the most expensive disposable part of a rocket into reusable infrastructure. The result is a cadence no one else approaches: 165 orbital launches in 2025, an annual record, and in June 2026 booster B1067 flew and landed for a 35th time - the most flights ever logged by an orbital-class stage, closing in on the Space Shuttle orbiter reuse record.", "Starship is the bet that extends reuse to the entire vehicle. The fully reusable super-heavy-lift system is designed to carry 100-150 tonnes to orbit at a target cost a fraction of any rocket flying today, and to refuel in orbit for missions to the Moon and Mars. The program graduated to its production V3 design in 2026, but it remains the company's hardest open problem: the first V3 flight in May 2026 completed its suborbital arc and deployed Starlink simulators, yet lost the Super Heavy booster on its return burn - a setback that grounded the vehicle." ], "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-10-35-b1067-ccsfs-asog" }, { "heading": "Starlink: the cash engine", "paragraphs": [ "Starlink turned SpaceX's launch advantage into a consumer and enterprise business with recurring revenue. The constellation now exceeds 10,400 working satellites - by far the largest ever flown - and crossed 12 million active customers across more than 160 countries in June 2026, adding on the order of 27,000 subscribers a day. The connectivity business generates the majority of SpaceX's space revenue, roughly $11B in 2025, and is the financial foundation beneath the far costlier Starship program.", "The newest frontier is direct-to-cell, which lets ordinary phones connect to satellites for messaging and, increasingly, data - a service SpaceX is rolling out with carrier partners across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The strategic prize is large enough that incumbent US carriers have begun banding together to respond, validating the threat. SpaceX's plan to deploy larger V3 Starlink satellites promising more than 100x the available bandwidth is, however, gated on returning Starship to flight, since only Starship can loft them at scale." ], "source": "https://www.techspot.com/news/112669-starlink-crosses-12-million-active-users-spacex-outlines.html" }, { "heading": "The xAI merger and the AI-compute pivot", "paragraphs": [ "In February 2026 SpaceX absorbed Musk's AI venture xAI in an all-stock deal, a move that reshaped the company's financial profile overnight. The transaction brought in the Memphis 'Colossus 1' supercomputer - more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs drawing over 300 MW - which SpaceX now operates as a third-party AI cloud, renting capacity to frontier labs.", "The economics are striking. Anthropic contracted the full capacity of Colossus 1 for $1.25B per month through May 2029, and an amended IPO prospectus disclosed a Google agreement worth roughly $920M per month for about 110,000 GPUs from late 2026 through mid-2029. Together these lifted SpaceX's disclosed AI-compute backlog above $70B - a business that did not exist a year earlier and that now sits alongside launch and Starlink as a third revenue pillar, even as it complicates the company's once space-pure investment story." ], "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal" }, { "heading": "Financials and the record IPO", "paragraphs": [ "SpaceX's May 2026 S-1 offered the first audited look inside the company: $18.67B in consolidated 2025 revenue (including xAI), a $2.59B operating loss, and $6.58B in adjusted EBITDA. The losses reflect the enormous capital sink of Starship and Starlink build-out; the cash flows from Starlink subscriptions, launch services, and now compute contracts are what make those investments financeable.", "On June 12, 2026 SpaceX debuted on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, selling about 555.6 million Class A shares at a fixed $135 to raise roughly $75B at a ~$1.77T valuation - the largest IPO ever, eclipsing Saudi Aramco. Demand was extraordinary: the stock jumped about 19% on its first day, ran to an intraday high above $225 within days, and Musk retained roughly 82% voting control through a multi-class structure, leaving him firmly in command of a now-public company." ], "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-spcx-live-updates.html" }, { "heading": "What to watch next", "paragraphs": [ "The single most important near-term variable is Starship. The FAA classified the May 2026 Flight 12 booster failure a mishap and grounded the vehicle pending a SpaceX-led investigation focused on the new Raptor 3 engines; hardware for Flight 13 is staged at Starbase, with industry reporting pointing to a roughly July-August 2026 return window. Almost everything strategic - V3 Starlink deployment, the NASA Artemis lunar-lander demonstration, in-orbit propellant transfer, and ultimately Mars cargo flights - waits on Starship flying reliably again.", "Beyond Starship, watch the defense ramp (a $4.16B Space Force award for Golden Dome missile-defense satellites pushed SpaceX's book on that program past $6B), the direct-to-cell competition with US carriers, and how public-market scrutiny reshapes a company long accustomed to operating without quarterly disclosure. The IPO gave SpaceX a balance sheet to match its ambitions; the open question is whether Starship can convert that capital into the multiplanetary architecture the S-1 names as its reason for being." ], "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "name": "SpaceX Form S-1 (SEC EDGAR)" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-spcx-live-updates.html", "name": "CNBC - SPCX IPO debut" }, { "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/112669-starlink-crosses-12-million-active-users-spacex-outlines.html", "name": "TechSpot - Starlink crosses 12M customers" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal", "name": "Bloomberg - Google–SpaceX compute deal" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/", "name": "Spaceflight Now - FAA Starship mishap investigation" }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/spacex-finally-files-ipo-prospectus-reveals-revenue-is-up-but-losses-are-too/", "name": "Fortune - SpaceX IPO prospectus financials" } ] }, "news": [ { "slug": "2026-09-10-spacex-ussf-153-vandenberg", "date": "2026-09-10", "title": "SpaceX launches classified USSF-153 from Vandenberg", "summary": "SpaceX launched the classified USSF-153 mission on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on September 10, 2026, lifting off at 8:42 a.m. PT. The first-stage booster, on its 27th flight, landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific. The U.S. Space Force payload remains undisclosed. The Debrief reported the flight as SpaceX's 104th Falcon 9 mission of 2026.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/ussf153", "name": "SpaceX" }, { "url": "https://thedebrief.org/spacex-just-launched-a-mysterious-classified-mission-for-the-u-s-space-force-heres-what-we-know/", "name": "The Debrief" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-06-us-space-firms-skip-paris-summit", "date": "2026-09-06", "title": "US space firms skip Macron Paris summit after White House pressure", "summary": "France's space ministry said SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud canceled attendance at President Emmanuel Macron's International Space Summit in Paris on September 9-10 after the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy hosted a call with US firms planning to go. Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, said officials warned that showing up could be read as support for European space-policy positions Washington opposes, including the EU Space Act and mobile-satellite spectrum rules, but did not explicitly order a boycott. Some planned US-European announcements were also dropped; an OSTP official said the administration still looks forward to talks at the summit on science, exploration and space security.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "blueorigin", "stoke-space", "starcloud" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://wsau.com/2026/09/03/white-house-pressures-us-space-firms-to-skip-paris-space-summit-sources-say/", "name": "Reuters (via WSAU)" }, { "url": "https://www.politico.eu/article/spacex-blue-origin-ditch-emmanuel-macron-france-space-summit-amid-white-house-pressure/", "name": "Politico" }, { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/why-did-us-space-companies-pull-out-of-a-french-space-meeting-its-complicated/", "name": "Ars Technica" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-06-faa-starship-pacific-reentry-fonsi", "date": "2026-09-06", "title": "FAA clears Starship Pacific reentry and extra Starbase path", "summary": "The FAA published a Final Tiered Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact on September 2, 2026 for SpaceX Starship reentry contingency operations in the Pacific Ocean and an additional landing trajectory back to Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, with the Federal Register notice following on September 4. The review would support a license modification adding a Northern Pacific Contingency Landing Area, expanding two existing Pacific splashdown zones, and authorizing temporary airspace closures for a new return-to-launch-site path. The FONSI is an environmental clearance, not a flight date or the license amendment itself.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_starship/", "name": "FAA" }, { "url": "https://www.portisabelsouthpadre.com/2026/09/03/faa-clears-environmental-review-for-additional-starship-return-path-to-starbase/", "name": "Port Isabel-South Padre Press" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-04-spacex-ai-data-center-leadership-reshuffle", "date": "2026-09-04", "title": "SpaceX shakes up AI data center team after reliability woes", "summary": "SpaceX replaced several leaders of its AI data-center build-out in early September 2026 after reliability and civil-engineering problems surfaced at its Tennessee and Mississippi sites, which had run for months without backup cooling or power. Rocket-production executive Wesley Salandro and Starbase operations director Logan McConnell moved in to run data centers as Jake Palmer, Zach Wells and Pablo Mendoza departed, while senior Starlink executive Michael Nicolls was installed to oversee xAI; the Macrohard facility had relied on more than 100 mobile chillers and posted uptime well below SpaceX's internal 99.9% target. The reshuffle comes as SpaceX faces a September 30, 2026 deadline to deliver committed GPUs under its roughly $920 million-a-month compute deal with Google.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/spacex-ai-buildout-shows-cracks-184838938.html", "name": "Yahoo Finance" }, { "url": "https://seekingalpha.com/news/4638950-spacex-is-said-to-overhaul-ai-infrastructure-team-as-data-center-delays-mount", "name": "Seeking Alpha" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-03-spacex-xai-bastrop-turbine-foundry", "date": "2026-09-03", "title": "SpaceX to build in-house gas-turbine blade foundry in Texas", "summary": "Elon Musk confirmed on August 29, 2026 that SpaceX is building a foundry in Bastrop, Texas to cast the nickel-superalloy blades and vanes used in gas turbines, bringing the most bottlenecked part of the turbine supply chain in-house. Musk said in-house casting can accelerate new natural-gas turbines coming online by up to 18 months, addressing a shortage that has left major suppliers like GE Vernova sold out of capacity through 2030 and that has constrained power for AI data centers including xAI's Colossus. SpaceX quietly acquired roughly 830 acres near its existing Starlink factory in Bastrop between March and June 2026.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "xai" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/30/musks-faster-path-to-more-gas-turbines-comes-with-pollution-problem/", "name": "TechCrunch" }, { "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/industry/news/spacex-to-set-up-turbine-blade-foundry-in-texas-to-meet-ai-power-demand-126090100259_1.html", "name": "Business Standard" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-31-spacex-crew-13-dragon-oxidizer-leak", "date": "2026-08-31", "title": "NASA and SpaceX delay Crew-13 after Dragon leak", "summary": "NASA and SpaceX postponed the Crew-13 launch to the International Space Station after an oxidizer leak was found on Dragon's propulsion system during standard prelaunch processing. The mission had been targeted for September 12, 2026 from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40, carrying NASA's Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA's Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos's Sergey Teteryatnikov. Joint teams are running extra tests and data review, and a new target date will be set once any needed rework is done.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/08/29/nasa-spacex-adjust-crew-13-launch-date/", "name": "NASA" }, { "url": "https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/nasa-spacex-delay-crew-13-launch-after-dragon-leak-detected-officials", "name": "FOX 35 Orlando" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-31-spacex-fcc-rocket-lab-iridium-scrutiny", "date": "2026-08-31", "title": "SpaceX asks FCC to scrutinize Rocket Lab-Iridium deal", "summary": "SpaceX filed comments with the FCC asking the agency to examine Iridium Communications' conduct as it reviews license transfers for Rocket Lab's pending roughly $8 billion acquisition of Iridium. SpaceX satellite policy associate Matthew Turk said Iridium had filed more than 50 petitions in eight months seeking to block or restrict rival satellite deployments, including next-generation Starlink gateways that share spectrum in the 19.4-19.6 GHz and 29.1-29.3 GHz bands, while adding that SpaceX does not oppose the transaction itself. Iridium stockholders are scheduled to vote on the merger on September 24, 2026, and Rocket Lab shares fell about 6% after the filing.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "rocketlab", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-pushes-fcc-to-scrutinize-rocket-lab-iridium-deal-amid-spectrum-clash", "name": "PCMag" }, { "url": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/28/rocket-lab-falls-6-as-spacex-flags-iridium-deal-to-the-fcc-intuitive-machines-slides-5/", "name": "24/7 Wall St." } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-31-spacex-starship-flight-14-static-fire", "date": "2026-08-31", "title": "SpaceX static-fires Super Heavy for Starship Flight 14", "summary": "SpaceX completed a full-duration 33-engine static fire of the Super Heavy booster assigned to Starship Flight 14 at Starbase, Texas on August 28, 2026, posting video of the pad test the same day. The run follows a six-engine static fire of Flight 14's Ship last week and is a key ground-test gate before Starship's first planned orbital-class flight, which is also expected to deploy next-generation Starlink V3 satellites. Flight 14 has slipped past a late-August target toward mid-September, and SpaceX has already said it will not attempt a tower catch of the upper stage on this flight.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-test-fires-starship-super-heavy-booster-ahead-of-key-test-flight", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-30-openai-cuts-cursor-model-access-spacex", "date": "2026-08-30", "title": "OpenAI to cut off Cursor's model access after SpaceX deal", "summary": "OpenAI said on August 29 it will end Cursor's access to its AI models on November 12, 2026, the maximum notice period allowed under its contract following a change of control, after Elon Musk's SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor maker Anysphere on August 14. OpenAI cited Musk's history of contract disputes with OpenAI, including his sworn admission that xAI, now folded into SpaceX, had violated OpenAI's terms of service; Cursor CEO Michael Truell said OpenAI models account for about 5% of Cursor's user traffic.", "companySlugs": [ "openai", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/", "name": "OpenAI" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/29/openai-cursor-spacex-model-access.html", "name": "CNBC" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-30-spacex-roman-space-telescope-falcon-heavy", "date": "2026-08-30", "title": "SpaceX launches NASA's Roman Space Telescope on Falcon Heavy", "summary": "SpaceX launched NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at 7:26 a.m. EDT on August 30 aboard a Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, following a Launch Readiness Review completed two days earlier. The observatory is headed to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where it will join the James Webb Space Telescope and survey the sky in infrared with a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble's to study dark energy and search for exoplanets.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-roman-space-telescope-falcon-heavy-launch-what-time", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/08/28/nasas-roman-space-telescope-go-for-launch/", "name": "NASA" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-29-spacex-starship-ship-40-christmas-island-return", "date": "2026-08-29", "title": "SpaceX ships recovered Starship home from Christmas Island", "summary": "SpaceX loaded the intact Flight 13 Starship upper stage, Ship 40, onto the semi-submersible vessel Forte off Christmas Island and began the roughly 20,000 km voyage back to Starbase, Texas, a trip expected to take several weeks. The 52-meter ship splashed down in the Indian Ocean on July 24 and is the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after a spaceflight; engineers inspected it in place and collected heat-shield samples before Forte departed on August 28.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://apnews.com/article/spacex-musk-starship-splashdown-dad5fd5a6f3eedd3dfe23bd59a3adb6c", "name": "AP News" }, { "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/spacex-rocket-begins-journey-back-to-texas-from-christmas-island/107079554", "name": "ABC News" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-28-spacex-ends-cape-canaveral-falcon9-starlink-launches", "date": "2026-08-28", "title": "SpaceX flies its last Cape Canaveral Starlink mission on Falcon 9", "summary": "SpaceX VP of Launch Kiko Dontchev said the Starlink 10-49 mission on August 25 was the last Falcon 9 Starlink launch planned from Cape Canaveral until Starship begins flying from Florida, ending a run of roughly 260 Starlink missions from the Cape over seven years. The move drops Florida's monthly Falcon 9 cadence from eight or nine flights to about two while Vandenberg Space Force Base absorbs Starlink launches for the rest of 2026 and possibly longer, freeing up Cape Canaveral infrastructure for Starship operations.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.benzinga.com/news/space/26/08/61426552/spacex-ends-falcon-9-starlink-launches-from-florida-as-starship-takes-over-end-of-an-era", "name": "Benzinga" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/08/25/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-27-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-2/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-27-spacex-100-billion-starbase-louisiana", "date": "2026-08-27", "title": "SpaceX commits $100 billion to Starbase Louisiana", "summary": "SpaceX announced on August 25 it will invest $100 billion in a new Starship spaceport at Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on former Exxon land, billed as its fourth and largest launch site. The campus is planned with five launch complexes of two pads each plus propellant production, power generation, vehicle processing and employee housing, creating 3,000 direct jobs at an average salary of about $92,600. Construction is expected to begin in 2027, with SpaceX targeting a first launch as soon as 2029 while Louisiana Economic Development has said initial operations are expected around 2030.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/spacex-launches-new-era-of-commercial-spaceflight-with-100-billion-louisiana-campus", "name": "Louisiana Economic Development" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/spacex-will-build-a-second-100b-starbase-spaceport-in-louisiana/", "name": "TechCrunch" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-27-spacex-starmind-ai-satellites-q4-2027", "date": "2026-08-27", "title": "SpaceX moves up orbital AI satellite launch to Q4 2027", "summary": "Elon Musk said on August 24 that SpaceX's first Nvidia-powered Starmind AI satellites will now launch in the fourth quarter of 2027, pulled forward from a prior 2028 target, with volume launches reaching significant scale in 2028. The first-generation AI1 satellite pairs a space-optimized version of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 system and is spec'd at roughly 20 meters tall and 70 meters wide with about 150 kilowatts of peak power; SpaceX shares rose about 3% on the news.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "nvidia" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-24/spacex-s-musk-sees-orbital-data-center-launch-near-end-of-2027", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/25/spacex-rises-3-as-musk-pulls-the-nvidia-orbital-data-center-into-2027-jpmorgan-sees-75-upside/", "name": "24/7 Wall St" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-26-spacex-falcon9-starlink-florida-era-ends", "date": "2026-08-26", "title": "SpaceX flies its last Florida Falcon 9 Starlink mission", "summary": "SpaceX flew its final planned Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Florida on August 25, closing out roughly seven years and about 260 Starlink launches from Cape Canaveral's Pad 40 on that rocket. Future Starlink launches from Florida will fly on Starship instead, with Falcon 9 Starlink missions continuing only from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/spacex-ends-falcon-9-starlink-180904062.html", "name": "Yahoo Finance (Space.com)" }, { "url": "https://talkoftitusville.com/2026/08/25/no-more-starlink-launches-aboard-falcon-9-from-the-cape/", "name": "Talk of Titusville" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-23-spacex-starship-tower-catch-delayed", "date": "2026-08-23", "title": "SpaceX pushes first Starship tower catch out by months", "summary": "Elon Musk said on August 20 that SpaceX will no longer attempt to catch the Starship upper stage with the launch tower's arms on the upcoming Flight 14, pushing the milestone out to roughly a few months from now and delaying the first Starship reflight to around the end of 2026 or early 2027. SpaceX already catches and reuses Super Heavy boosters with the tower's arms, but catching the faster, higher-arriving upper stage is a bigger engineering challenge; SpaceX shares fell about 6% on the news.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-will-try-for-1st-starship-tower-catch-in-a-few-months-elon-musk-says", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-scales-back-plans-for-next-starship-launch/", "name": "SpaceNews" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-22-spacex-ast-spacemobile-800mhz-spectrum-bid", "date": "2026-08-22", "title": "SpaceX, AST SpaceMobile eye $6B in 800 MHz spectrum", "summary": "SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile are among the bidders for about $6 billion of 800 MHz spectrum licenses that Grain Management acquired from T-Mobile in a swap earlier this month, Bloomberg reported August 20. The licenses cover 817-824 MHz uplink and 862-869 MHz downlink frequencies across 3,224 US counties; preliminary offers are due in early September, with the FCC targeting a completed bidding process by November 5.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "ast-spacemobile" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/spacex-and-ast-spacemobile-eye-grain-management-spectrum-for-6-bln-bloomberg-93CH-4870684", "name": "Investing.com" }, { "url": "https://www.telecompetitor.com/spacex-and-ast-spacemobile-eye-6b-in-satellite-spectrum-bloomberg/", "name": "Telecompetitor" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-20-spacex-100-launches-starlink-11000", "date": "2026-08-20", "title": "SpaceX hits 100 launches in 2026 as Starlink tops 11,000 satellites", "summary": "SpaceX reached its 100th orbital launch of 2026 in the early hours of August 19 with a Falcon 9 flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base, crossing the century mark for the third year in a row and about two months faster than it did in 2024. Falcon 9 flew 97 of the 100 missions and roughly three-quarters were dedicated to Starlink, whose broadband constellation has now pushed past 11,000 satellites in orbit, accounting for close to two-thirds of all active spacecraft around Earth.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-100-launches-2026-starlink-group-17-50-launch", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/08/18/live-coverage-spacex-to-send-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-with-tuesday-night-launch-from-california/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-18-spacex-closes-cursor-acquisition", "date": "2026-08-18", "title": "SpaceX closes $60 billion acquisition of Cursor maker", "summary": "SpaceX officially closed its all-stock acquisition of Anysphere, the AI coding startup behind Cursor, on August 15, 2026, ahead of the late-August target set when the deal was agreed in June. Cursor gains access to SpaceX's GPU fleet, including the Colossus supercomputer, and the companies say they have already jointly trained Grok models using trillions of tokens of Cursor's coding data, extending SpaceX's push into AI compute.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition/", "name": "TechCrunch" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-cursor-60-billion-ai-acquisition/", "name": "CBS News" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-17-tesla-roadster-spacex-thruster-demo-plan", "date": "2026-08-17", "title": "Tesla plans driverless thruster demo for redesigned Roadster", "summary": "The Information reported on August 14 that Tesla is preparing to unveil the redesigned Roadster as soon as this month at SpaceX's rocket test site in McGregor, Texas, with a limited-edition version lifting off the pavement using roughly ten SpaceX-built cold-gas thrusters mounted where the rear seats would sit. The demonstration car will be remotely operated with nobody inside because the thrusters are loud enough to risk hearing injury, and spectators will be kept a few hundred yards back. Tesla is expected to show two variants, a road-legal standard Roadster and the thruster-equipped edition, which reporting says will not be street legal.", "companySlugs": [ "tesla", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://electrek.co/2026/08/14/tesla-flying-roadster-demo-this-month-no-driver/", "name": "Electrek" }, { "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/tesla-plans-flying-roadster-stunt-at-spacex-texas-site-as-early-as-august-4860922", "name": "Investing.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-16-nvidia-spacex-21-billion-stake-13f", "date": "2026-08-16", "title": "Nvidia discloses $21 billion SpaceX stake in SEC filing", "summary": "Nvidia's quarterly 13F filing, released August 14, revealed the company held 122.8 million Class A shares of SpaceX worth about $21 billion as of the June 30 quarter-end, its second-largest disclosed equity position after a roughly $30 billion Intel stake. The shares originated from Nvidia's $10 billion investment in xAI's January 2026 funding round, which converted into SpaceX equity after Elon Musk folded xAI into SpaceX in an all-stock deal; SpaceX shares have since fallen from $170.86 to about $140, which would put the stake's value closer to $17 billion by the filing's disclosure date.", "companySlugs": [ "nvidia", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/nvidia-discloses-21-billion-stake-in-spacex-at-end-of-second-quarter.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-14/nvidia-has-21-billion-spacex-stake-30-billion-in-intel-shares", "name": "Bloomberg" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-16-spacex-record-launch-cadence-38-minutes", "date": "2026-08-16", "title": "SpaceX sets new launch cadence record, 38 minutes apart", "summary": "SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets from opposite coasts just 38.5 minutes apart on the night of August 15, breaking its previous record of 65 minutes set in August 2024. The first carried eight satellites to replenish Globalstar's constellation from Cape Canaveral, landing its booster about 8 minutes after liftoff, while the second launched the classified USSF-366 mission for the U.S. Space Force from Vandenberg, landing on a droneship in the Pacific.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-breaks-record-launch-doubleheader-ussf-366-globalstar-2r", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/08/15/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-satellite-replenishment-mission-for-globalstar-from-cape-canaveral/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-12-spacex-first-lockup-expiration", "date": "2026-08-12", "title": "SpaceX's first post-IPO lock-up expiration frees $100B in shares", "summary": "SpaceX's initial post-IPO lock-up expired on August 6, freeing up to 911.5 million insider shares held by employees and early investors, worth roughly $100 billion and more than doubling the company's public float to about 11.8% of shares outstanding from 4.9%. Despite the added supply, SpaceX stock rose about 6.1% that day; further tranches unlock on August 31, September 10, September 25, October 10, October 25 and a full 180-day unlock on December 8, 2026.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacexs-lockup-expires-aug-6-080500494.html", "name": "Yahoo Finance" }, { "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/29/billion-spacex-shares-unlock-aug-6-investor/", "name": "The Motley Fool" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-08-spacex-starship-13-lost-at-sea", "date": "2026-08-08", "title": "SpaceX likely to lose Starship Flight 13 upper stage at sea", "summary": "Elon Musk said on August 7 that recovering Starship Flight 13's upper stage from the Indian Ocean is not looking good, after recovery crews spent days battling rough seas following the ship's intact splashdown near Western Australia on July 24. Musk said the recovery effort still yielded close-up photos of the heat shield and engines that let him call the heat-shield problem solved, and SpaceX is targeting Flight 14 for late August in an attempt to reach operational orbit for the first time while carrying production Starlink satellites.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/not-looking-good-right-now-starship-likely-to-be-lost-at-sea-2-weeks-after-epic-13th-test-flight-elon-musk-says", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://teslanorth.com/2026/08/07/spacex-battles-rough-seas-in-effort-to-recover-starship/", "name": "Tesla North" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-08-spacex-tesla-terafab-chip-factory-texas", "date": "2026-08-08", "title": "SpaceX and Tesla confirm $16.8B Terafab chip plant in Texas", "summary": "Tesla and SpaceX confirmed on August 6 that their jointly developed Terafab semiconductor factory will be built in Grimes County, Texas, with an initial phase of $16.8 billion in investment and at least 3,000 jobs planned. The vertically integrated, 100-million-square-foot facility is designed to make, package and test advanced logic and memory chips to supply Tesla's Optimus robots and Cybercabs as well as SpaceX's space-based AI data centers, with total investment potentially reaching $119 billion if further phases proceed.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "tesla" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/tesla-and-spacex-will-invest-16-8b-to-start-building-terafab-chip-factory-in-texas/", "name": "TechCrunch" }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/spacex-says-terafab-built-texas-142548566.html", "name": "Yahoo Finance" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-06-spacex-nvidia-exclusive-starmind-orbital-ai", "date": "2026-08-06", "title": "SpaceX commits exclusively to Nvidia, unveils Starmind orbital AI", "summary": "SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on the company's August 4 earnings call that SpaceX and xAI will go exclusively with Nvidia GPUs for AI compute, citing the Vera Rubin architecture as the best available platform. The companies are jointly developing Starmind AI1, a satellite carrying Nvidia Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs to run AI workloads from low Earth orbit, with two prototype satellites planned to launch in early 2027 ahead of a larger commercial constellation.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "nvidia", "xai" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-exclusively-use-nvidia-gpus-because-they-are-the-best-says-optimized-vera-rubin-nvl72-will-be-launched-into-space-next-year", "name": "Tom's Hardware" }, { "url": "https://www.eweek.com/news/musk-nvidia-exclusive-ai-compute/", "name": "eWeek" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-04-spacex-first-public-earnings-q2-2026", "date": "2026-08-04", "title": "SpaceX posts $6.93B revenue in first earnings as public company", "summary": "SpaceX reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $6.93 billion and a net loss of $0.26 per share on August 4, its first financial disclosure since going public, beating Wall Street's roughly $6.88 billion consensus estimate. Starlink subscribers surpassed 12 million and remained the company's only consistently profitable segment, while heavy AI-infrastructure and Starship spending kept the launch and SpaceXAI segments unprofitable. SPCX shares have fallen well below their $135 June 12 Nasdaq debut price, with a roughly $116 billion lock-up expiration for early investors set for August 6.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/spacex-spcx-earnings-live-updates-q2-2026.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://bingx.com/en/news/post/spacex-spcx-q-earnings-report-live-updates", "name": "BingX" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-02-tesla-china-unit-sale-report-spacex-merger", "date": "2026-08-02", "title": "Tesla weighs selling China unit ahead of possible SpaceX merger", "summary": "The Wall Street Journal reported on July 30, 2026 that Tesla executives were directed to prepare options, including a spin-off, sale, or closure, for separating the company's China business, a move reportedly seen internally as a precursor to a potential Tesla-SpaceX merger. Elon Musk publicly denied the report as fake news, and Tesla's China unit issued its own denial, though merger speculation between the two companies has persisted for months.", "companySlugs": [ "tesla", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/tesla-weighs-china-unit-sale-ahead-of-spacex-deal-wsj-says", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/tesla-reportedly-might-sell-its-china-business-ahead-of-a-spacex-merger/", "name": "TechCrunch" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-08-02-spacex-nrol-95-classified-launch", "date": "2026-08-02", "title": "SpaceX launches classified NROL-95 mission for the NRO", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the classified NROL-95 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 3:10 a.m. EDT on July 30, 2026, under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 program. Booster B1096 flew its seventh mission and landed at Landing Zone 2 about 8.5 minutes after liftoff; coverage of the payload deployment was withheld at the NRO's request.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/29/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-classified-payload-for-national-reconnaissance-office/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/30/SpaceX-NRO-launch/4641785394921/", "name": "UPI" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-30-spacex-space-force-1-6b-falcon-9-order", "date": "2026-07-30", "title": "SpaceX wins $1.6B Space Force order for 18 Falcon 9 launches", "summary": "The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX two task orders worth $1.6 billion on July 29 for 18 Falcon 9 launches carrying military sensing satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base through the end of 2027. The satellites belong to the Pentagon's Space-Based Sensing and Targeting portfolio, an orbital early-warning system meant to spot airborne threats and relay targeting data to U.S. forces in near-real-time; the award was issued under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program and pushes SpaceX's 2026 Space Force contract total above $8 billion.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://thedefensepost.com/2026/07/30/us-rocket-launch-spacex/", "name": "The Defense Post" }, { "url": "https://interestingengineering.com/military/spacex-space-force-1-6-billion-falcon-9-launch-contract", "name": "Interesting Engineering" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-29-starlink-fcc-router-exemption", "date": "2026-07-29", "title": "FCC exempts new Starlink routers from foreign-made router ban", "summary": "The FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau issued a public notice on July 27 exempting new Starlink router authorizations from a sweeping national-security ban on foreign-made routers, based on a Department of War determination that the devices - made in Texas and Vietnam - do not pose an unacceptable risk. The exemption runs through February 1, 2028, keeping Starlink's hardware supply chain intact alongside similar conditional exemptions already granted to Netgear, Adtran, Calix, Nokia, and Sagemcom.", "companySlugs": [ "starlink", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/fcc-exempts-new-starlink-devices-from-router-ban", "name": "Light Reading" }, { "url": "https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/07/60724057/trump-administration-exempts-spacexs-starlink-from-sweeping-fcc-ban-on-foreign-made-routers-through-february-2028", "name": "Benzinga" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-29-faa-environmental-rule-waiver-commercial-launch", "date": "2026-07-29", "title": "FAA moves to waive environmental reviews for rocket launches", "summary": "US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced on July 28 a proposed FAA rule that would let the agency waive requirements under 13 federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and parts of the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, when licensing commercial launches and reentries. The proposal, aimed at speeding up approvals for companies including SpaceX and Blue Origin, keeps core public-safety and national-security reviews in place and is subject to a 30-day public comment period.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "blueorigin" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/liftoff-trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-announces-major-move-streamline", "name": "US Department of Transportation" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/space-launches-faa-environmental-spacex-blue-origin-sean-duffy.html", "name": "CNBC" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-27-spacex-starship-flight-14-tower-catch-plan", "date": "2026-07-27", "title": "Musk targets first Starship ship catch on next flight", "summary": "SpaceX plans to attempt the first-ever launch-tower catch of Starship's upper stage on Flight 14, CEO Elon Musk said following the July 24 success of Flight 13, pending review of that flight's data for any anomalies. Catching the ship with the pad's mechanical arms, as SpaceX already does with the Super Heavy booster, is a major step toward the rapid full reusability the program is built around, and would make Flight 14 Starship's first orbital launch. SpaceX has not yet set a date for the flight.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://satnews.com/2026/07/25/spacex-targets-first-starship-upper-stage-tower-catch-for-flight-14/", "name": "SatNews" }, { "url": "https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-catch-starship-launch-14-elon-musk/", "name": "Teslarati" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-25-spacex-starship-flight13-success-starlink-v3", "date": "2026-07-25", "title": "Starship Flight 13 succeeds, deploys first Starlink V3 satellites", "summary": "SpaceX launched its 13th Starship test flight on July 24 from Starbase, Texas, and for the first time deployed 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites, the largest payload the vehicle has ever carried and one too big to fly on Falcon 9. Both stages returned under control: the Super Heavy booster made an offshore splashdown, though only about five of its planned landing-burn engines lit and it came down faster than hoped, while the upper stage performed what SpaceX called its softest splashdown yet in the Indian Ocean, and the company made contact with all 20 satellites. It was the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle and SpaceX's cleanest Starship mission to date, a milestone for scaling Starlink capacity since a full 60-satellite Starship load can add roughly 60 terabits per second, about 20 times a Falcon 9 batch of V2 Mini satellites.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-makes-the-softest-splashdown-ever-after-launching-next-gen-starlink-satellites-in-flight-13-test-video", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/24/science/live-news/spacex-starship-flight-13-launch", "name": "CNN" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-23-spacex-stock-record-low-trillion-erased", "date": "2026-07-23", "title": "SpaceX stock hits record low, erasing $1 trillion from peak", "summary": "SpaceX shares (SPCX) slid to a fresh low, closing at $115.26 on July 22, down about 6.7% on the day and roughly 25% over the past month. The retreat has wiped out around $1 trillion in market value since the company's mid-June peak, extending a rapid unwind of the euphoria that followed its record roughly $86 billion June debut. Investors have turned cautious ahead of an early-August lockup expiration tied to the company's first quarterly report, and amid a broader cooling in richly valued AI and tech names.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/07/22/spacex-just-erased-1-trillion-in-value-heres-why-the-worst-could-be-yet-to-come/", "name": "24/7 Wall St." }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-stock-drops-low-loses-112803895.html", "name": "Yahoo Finance" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-23-xai-spacex-engineering-data-grok", "date": "2026-07-23", "title": "Musk to train next Grok model on SpaceX engineering data", "summary": "Elon Musk said on July 21 that SpaceX's corpus of engineering data will be fed into the supplemental training of xAI's next major Grok model, a roughly two-trillion-parameter run, excluding anything restricted under U.S. arms-export (ITAR) rules. Musk said the aerospace data would dramatically improve Grok's engineering capabilities, extending his pattern of routing data from his companies into xAI after Tesla's driving data and X's conversational data. Grok 4.5, the current flagship model, launched on July 8.", "companySlugs": [ "xai", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2079446276299465185", "name": "Elon Musk (X)" }, { "url": "https://beincrypto.com/spacex-engineering-data-grok-training/", "name": "BeInCrypto" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-20-spacex-starship-flight13-targets-july-23", "date": "2026-07-20", "title": "SpaceX targets July 23 for Starship Flight 13 after engine swap", "summary": "SpaceX is now targeting July 23 for its 13th Starship test flight after an interim July 20 window slipped, following the July 16 launch abort that halted the countdown at T-0 when four of Super Heavy's 33 Raptor engines failed to ignite. Engineers removed and replaced two Raptors on the booster before the next attempt. The mission - the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle - aims to deploy 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time on a suborbital trajectory, six of them carrying cameras to inspect the ship's heat-shield tiles before reentry.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-aborts-starship-flight-13-launch-attempt/", "name": "SpaceNews" }, { "url": "https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/starship-flight-13/", "name": "Space Launch Schedule" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-20-spacex-pentagon-ai-compute-talks", "date": "2026-07-20", "title": "SpaceX in talks to supply Pentagon with AI computing power", "summary": "SpaceX is negotiating a multibillion-dollar arrangement to lease AI data-center computing capacity to the U.S. Department of Defense, the Wall Street Journal reported July 17. Rather than selling data centers outright, SpaceX would rent out compute for a limited period to run AI models across Pentagon operations - a move that would push the company into direct competition with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for military cloud work. The talks are ongoing and could still fall apart; they follow SpaceX's earlier compute deals, including a roughly $45 billion multiyear contract with Anthropic and about $920 million a month from Google.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2026-07-17/musks-spacex-in-talks-to-provide-computing-power-to-the-pentagon-wsj-reports", "name": "Reuters (via U.S. News)" }, { "url": "https://cybernews.com/ai-news/spacex-pentagon-ai-deal/", "name": "Cybernews" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-19-spacex-shares-fall-below-ipo-price", "date": "2026-07-19", "title": "SpaceX shares fall below $135 IPO price for first time", "summary": "SpaceX stock (SPCX) closed below its $135 IPO price for the first time on July 16, ending down about 3% near $131 amid a broader tech selloff, after a fourth straight day of declines had left it just above the line a day earlier. The slide leaves shares roughly 42% below the record high above $225 they hit within days of the company's record ~$86 billion June 12 debut, and the retreat continued into the following week. The rapid unwind of the post-listing rally has poured cold water on this year's IPO market, dragging a key gauge of 2026 debuts lower with it.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/spacex-spcx-stock-ipo-price.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/spacex-post-listing-collapse-threatens-ipo-market-s-ai-euphoria", "name": "Bloomberg" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-18-spacex-sda-tranche1-york-satellites", "date": "2026-07-18", "title": "SpaceX launches 21 SDA data-relay satellites; network hits halfway", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 21 York Space Systems satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 16, the third batch for the Pentagon's Tranche 1 Transport Layer and the agency's first launch after a roughly nine-month pause to work through technical and operational issues. The additions bring the proliferated low-Earth-orbit data-relay constellation to 63 of a planned 126 satellites - about half its intended size. The booster, on its fourth flight, landed on the droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Pacific.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-launch-sda-titl-3-military-satellites", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.airandspaceforces.com/space-development-agency-launches-21-data-transport-satellites-on-spacex-rocket/", "name": "Air & Space Forces Magazine" }, { "url": "https://breakingdefense.com/2026/07/sda-resumes-data-relay-satellite-launch-following-tech-fixes/", "name": "Breaking Defense" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-17-spacex-starship-flight13-abort-t0", "date": "2026-07-17", "title": "SpaceX aborts Starship Flight 13 at engine ignition", "summary": "SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight was aborted at T-0 on July 16 just as the Super Heavy booster began lighting its 33 Raptor engines, when four of them failed to ignite and the vehicle's flight computer automatically halted the countdown. The mission - the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle - was set to attempt the first deployment of Starlink V3 satellites on a suborbital trajectory. Elon Musk said engineers will remove and replace two Raptor engines on the booster before the next attempt, which he said is most likely early the following week.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-aborts-starship-flight-13-launch-attempt/", "name": "SpaceNews" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/16/live-coverage-spacex-to-deploy-first-starlink-v3-satellites-on-suborbital-starship-super-heavy-flight/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-15-spacex-faa-closes-flight12-probe-clears-flight13", "date": "2026-07-15", "title": "FAA closes Starship Flight 12 probe, clearing Flight 13", "summary": "The FAA said on July 13 it had closed the SpaceX-led investigation into the loss of the Super Heavy booster on Starship's Flight 12 and accepted the findings, clearing the way for the next test flight. The agency said the mishap was caused by heat effects on propulsion-system components during ascent and erroneous engine-alarm settings, and that SpaceX had made hardware and software configuration changes to prevent a recurrence. Flight 13 - the second launch of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle, pairing Booster 20 with Ship 40 - is now targeted for no earlier than July 16 from Starbase, Texas.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-gears-up-for-starship-flight-13/", "name": "SpaceNews" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/news/live/spacex-starship-flight-13-launch-updates-july-14-2026", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-14-spacex-600th-flight-proven-booster", "date": "2026-07-14", "title": "SpaceX flies a flight-proven Falcon booster for the 600th time", "summary": "SpaceX was set to notch its 600th launch using a flight-proven - previously flown and recovered - Falcon first stage early on July 14, flying the Starlink 10-45 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral and adding 29 broadband satellites to its low-Earth-orbit constellation. The milestone underscores how routine booster reuse has become for the company, whose fleet-leading first stages have each now flown dozens of times. It came just days after SpaceX set a single-booster reuse record with a 36th flight.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/13/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-a-flight-proven-falcon-booster-for-600th-time/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://spacecoastdaily.com/2026/07/spacex-set-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral-on-tuesday-july-14/", "name": "Space Coast Daily" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-13-spacex-joins-nasdaq-100", "date": "2026-07-13", "title": "SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 just weeks after its IPO", "summary": "SpaceX was added to the Nasdaq-100 index effective July 7, only 15 trading days after its record-setting June 12 market debut, under Nasdaq's new fast-track rule for mega-listings. The inclusion is expected to draw billions of dollars in passive buying from the more than $800 billion of funds tracking the index, though SpaceX's initial weighting is small - an estimated 0.5% to 0.7% - because less than 5% of its shares trade freely. It is one of the first launch companies to enter the benchmark, underscoring investor appetite for space stocks.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/spacex-added-to-nasdaq-100.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/economy/spacex-nasdaq-100-stocks", "name": "CNN" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-11-spacex-starship-flight13-booster-static-fire", "date": "2026-07-11", "title": "SpaceX static-fires Starship Flight 13 booster, eyes July 14", "summary": "SpaceX fired all 33 Raptor engines on Super Heavy Booster 20 at Starbase, Texas around July 10, clearing a key milestone toward Starship's 13th test flight - the second launch of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle, pairing Booster 20 with Ship 40. The booster static fire followed the earlier six-engine static fire of Ship 40, leaving the vehicle largely cleared for launch. The FAA has issued a provisional window opening July 14, though the date could slip; SpaceX is aiming to raise Starship's cadence toward roughly one flight a month and attempt full orbital injection on a later mission.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/starship-flight-13/", "name": "Space Launch Schedule" }, { "url": "https://www.advanced-television.com/2026/07/08/spacex-readies-starship-launch-13", "name": "Advanced Television" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-10-spacex-falcon9-record-36th-booster-flight", "date": "2026-07-10", "title": "SpaceX flies a Falcon 9 booster for a record 36th time", "summary": "SpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record on July 9, launching its most-flown Falcon 9 first stage, booster B1067, for a 36th time on the Starlink 10-42 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 5:25 a.m. EDT. The flight added 29 Starlink broadband satellites to the constellation, and about eight minutes after liftoff B1067 landed on the droneship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' - the 160th landing for that vessel and the 635th booster landing in SpaceX history. B1067, which debuted in 2021, extends its lead as the most-flown booster in the fleet.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-36th-time-new-record", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/09/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-on-record-breaking-36th-flight/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-08-spacex-transporter-17-rideshare", "date": "2026-07-08", "title": "SpaceX flies Transporter-17 rideshare with 81 payloads", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-17 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:12 a.m. PDT on July 7, carrying 81 payloads - including cubesats, microsats, hosted payloads and orbital transfer vehicles - to a sun-synchronous orbit. The first stage, on its 11th flight, landed on the droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Pacific about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. It was the 17th flight of SpaceX's dedicated Transporter smallsat rideshare program.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-transporter-17-rideshare-launch-81-satellites", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-03-spacex-starship-ship40-six-engine-static-fire", "date": "2026-07-03", "title": "SpaceX static-fires all six engines on Flight 13 Starship", "summary": "SpaceX fired all six Raptor engines on Ship 40, the upper stage assigned to Starship's 13th test flight, for a full minute at its Massey's test site in Starbase, Texas, sharing video of the run on July 2. The test of the three sea-level and three vacuum-optimized engines simulates flight-like conditions and clears a key hurdle toward the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 Starship. Next up is rolling the mission's Super Heavy booster to the pad for its own static fire, with Flight 13 targeted for late July.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-fires-up-all-6-of-starships-engines-ahead-of-13th-test-flight-video", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/06/ship-40-single-engine/", "name": "NASASpaceFlight" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-29-spacex-nasdaq-100-july-7", "date": "2026-06-29", "title": "SpaceX to join Nasdaq-100 on July 7 in record-fast inclusion", "summary": "Nasdaq said SpaceX (SPCX) will be added to the Nasdaq-100 Index before the open on Tuesday, July 7, just 15 trading days after its June 12 IPO - the fastest inclusion in the benchmark's history. SpaceX is the first company to benefit from a new Nasdaq rule that fast-tracks large IPOs into the index by cutting the eligibility window to 15 trading days. The addition, which gives SpaceX a sub-1% weighting, is expected to force index funds and ETFs tracking the Nasdaq-100 to buy billions of dollars of SPCX shares.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://seekingalpha.com/news/4607865-spacex-to-join-nasdaq-100-effective-july-7-2026", "name": "Seeking Alpha" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-29-spacex-falcon9-siriusxm-sxm-11", "date": "2026-06-29", "title": "SpaceX launches SiriusXM's SXM-11 broadcast satellite", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 10:25 p.m. EDT on June 28 (0225 GMT June 29), deploying the roughly 15,000-pound SXM-11 satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit about 34.5 minutes later. The SiriusXM spacecraft is designed to boost signal strength, extend coverage into Alaska and eventually replace the aging XM-5 and Sirius FM-5 satellites. The first stage, booster B1085, landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas on its 17th flight.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-sirius-sxm-11-satellite-launch-falcon-9", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-28-spacex-prices-25b-inaugural-bond", "date": "2026-06-28", "title": "SpaceX prices upsized $25B inaugural bond on $89B in orders", "summary": "SpaceX priced its debut investment-grade bond offering at $25 billion on June 23, upsizing from an initial $20 billion target after demand topped roughly $89 billion in one of the largest-ever corporate debt sales. The five-tranche deal carries coupons ranging from 5.35% on notes due 2031 to 6.65% on notes due 2056 and was set to settle June 26, with proceeds going to repay a March 2026 bridge loan in full. The raise came barely two weeks after SpaceX's record IPO and amid a pullback in SPCX shares.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://ir.spacex.com/updates/releases-details/2026/SpaceX-Announces-Pricing-of-25-Billion-Inaugural-Bond-Issuance-2026-33VwNgsx3O/default.aspx", "name": "SpaceX" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/23/spacex-debt-bond-market-ipo.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-23/spacex-draws-89-billion-demand-for-debut-high-grade-bond-sale", "name": "Bloomberg" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-24-spacex-starfall-reentry-capsule-debut", "date": "2026-06-24", "title": "SpaceX debuts Starfall cargo reentry capsule", "summary": "SpaceX launched the debut flight of Starfall, a disk-shaped cargo reentry capsule, aboard a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 6:52 a.m. EDT on June 23. About 3.1 meters in diameter and able to carry roughly 1,000 kg, the vehicle is designed to return research and orbital-manufacturing payloads - such as pharmaceuticals - to Earth, splashing down about 700 nautical miles off the U.S. West Coast. The demonstration marks SpaceX's entry into the commercial cargo-return market and is the first of at least two planned Starfall test flights.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/23/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-reentry-capsule-demo-mission-called-starfall/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launching-its-1st-starfall-reentry-capsule-early-on-june-23-watch-it-live", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-24-spacex-20b-bond-debut-cash-pile", "date": "2026-06-24", "title": "SpaceX launches debut $20B bond sale, discloses $100.8B cash", "summary": "Just over a week after its record IPO, SpaceX kicked off its first-ever investment-grade bond offering on June 22, seeking at least $20 billion in senior unsecured notes largely to refinance a $20 billion bridge loan taken on in March. In the offering documents the company disclosed roughly $100.8 billion in cash and equivalents as of June 19 and secured investment-grade ratings from Moody's, Fitch and S&P. SpaceX shares fell more than 10% on the day and over 20% across five sessions as investors weighed the rapid pace of capital raising so soon after going public.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-spcx-bond-sale-ipo.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/spacex-kicks-off-debut-us-dollar-investment-grade-bond-offering", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/06/23/spacex-musk-bonds-stock", "name": "Axios" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-24-spacex-reflection-ai-colossus-compute-deal", "date": "2026-06-24", "title": "SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with Reflection AI", "summary": "SpaceX signed a deal worth up to $6.3 billion under which open-source AI startup Reflection will rent capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, paying about $150 million per month from July 1 through 2029 for access to Nvidia GB300 chips. The agreement, disclosed June 22, deepens SpaceX's push to commercialize Colossus, following recent compute arrangements with Anthropic, Google and Cursor. Reflection said the capacity will accelerate its work on open-source AI models for government and national-security customers.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/spacex-secures-63bn-compute-capacity-deal-from-ai-startup-reflection/", "name": "Data Center Dynamics" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-21-spacex-falcon9-nrol-179-nro-launch", "date": "2026-06-21", "title": "SpaceX launches NROL-179 spy satellites for the NRO", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:50 a.m. PDT on June 19, carrying a classified batch of satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on the NROL-179 mission - the 14th flight building out the NRO's proliferated low-Earth-orbit architecture. The spacecraft are widely believed to be Starshield, a government-specific derivative of Starlink. The rocket's first stage landed back at Vandenberg's Landing Zone 4 on its third flight, in what was SpaceX's 71st Falcon 9 mission of 2026.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-spy-satellite-launch-nrol-179-nro", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/18/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-intelligence-gathering-satellites-for-the-national-reconnaissance-office-2/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-15-spacex-spcx-first-day-surge-musk-trillion", "date": "2026-06-15", "title": "SpaceX stock jumps 19% on first day; Musk net worth tops $1 trillion", "summary": "SpaceX shares closed their first Nasdaq session at $161 on June 12, up about 19% from the $135 IPO price and lifting the company's market value above its roughly $1.77 trillion offering valuation after the largest public offering in history. As SPCX opened near $150, Elon Musk's net worth crossed $1 trillion for the first time, driven largely by his stake and roughly 82% voting control. The debut capped a record $75 billion raise and gave public investors their first direct exposure to Starlink and SpaceX's launch and AI-compute businesses.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-spcx-live-updates.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_SpaceX", "name": "Wikipedia" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-14-state-department-starlink-disaster-mou", "date": "2026-06-14", "title": "US State Department signs two-year Starlink disaster-response deal", "summary": "The U.S. Department of State and SpaceX's Starlink announced a two-year memorandum of understanding on June 12 to use Starlink's low-Earth-orbit network to restore communications during international disasters and humanitarian crises. The department's Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response will coordinate directly with Starlink to give emergency responders and affected populations rapid connectivity when storms, outbreaks, or other crises knock out infrastructure. The agreement formalizes the ad hoc deployments Starlink has made during events such as Hurricane Melissa, Typhoon Kalmaegi, and recent cyclones, and lands the same week parent SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/06/united-states-and-starlink-announce-cooperation-on-critical-disaster-response", "name": "U.S. Department of State" }, { "url": "https://www.satellitetoday.com/government-military/2026/06/12/u-s-state-department-taps-spacexs-starlink-for-two-year-disaster-response-initiative/", "name": "Via Satellite" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-12-spacex-spcx-nasdaq-ipo-debut", "date": "2026-06-12", "title": "SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq in largest IPO in history", "summary": "SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq under ticker SPCX on June 12 after pricing its IPO at a fixed $135 per share, selling 555.6 million Class A shares to raise roughly $75 billion at a valuation near $1.77 trillion - the largest public offering ever, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's 2019 record. Demand was extraordinary, with reported total interest above $250 billion and an unusually large retail allocation of up to 30% of shares. The listing crystallizes the value of Starlink, which generated $3.26 billion in Q1 2026 revenue serving 10.3 million subscribers, while Elon Musk retains roughly 82% voting control.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-price-date.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/spacex-ipo-stock-price-roadshow-musk.html", "name": "CNBC (pricing)" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-11-nasa-artemis-3-crew-landers", "date": "2026-06-11", "title": "NASA names Artemis III crew to test SpaceX and Blue Origin landers", "summary": "NASA on June 9 named the four astronauts for Artemis III - commander Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmitano (ESA), and mission specialists Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas - for a roughly two-week flight that will stay in low-Earth orbit to rendezvous and dock with both human landing systems before any crewed lunar landing. Administrator Jared Isaacman said Orion will link up with Blue Origin's Blue Moon and SpaceX's Starship landers to evaluate life support and other critical systems, with launch targeted as soon as late 2027. The plan turns the crewed test directly on the two companies' lander programs, both of which face hurdles - Blue Origin after the May 28 New Glenn pad explosion and SpaceX as it works to ready Starship for an orbital lander test.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "blueorigin" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-iii-crew-announced/", "name": "NASA" }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/science/artemis-3-crew-announcement", "name": "CNN" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasa-reveals-artemis-3-astronaut-crew", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-09-spacex-falcon9-b1067-35th-reuse-record", "date": "2026-06-09", "title": "SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sets orbital rocket reuse record on 35th flight", "summary": "Booster B1067 launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral at 6:13 a.m. EDT on June 8, completing its record 35th trip to space and back - more flights than any orbital rocket stage in history, surpassing NASA's Space Shuttle orbiters at 39 missions per vehicle once landing is counted. The first stage landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas about eight minutes after liftoff, deployment was confirmed an hour later, and the active Starlink constellation grew to more than 10,580 satellites. The milestone came four days before SpaceX's planned Nasdaq debut on June 12 under ticker SPCX.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/07/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-booster-on-record-breaking-35th-flight/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-10-35-b1067-ccsfs-asog", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://aiaa.org/2026/06/08/spacex-sets-new-reusability-record-with-falcon-9-boosters-35th-flight/", "name": "AIAA" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-06-spacex-google-30b-compute-deal", "date": "2026-06-06", "title": "SpaceX inks $30B Google AI compute deal ahead of IPO", "summary": "SpaceX disclosed in an amended S-1 on June 5 that Alphabet's Google will pay it $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 - about $30 billion - for roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and related infrastructure routed through its Memphis Colossus 1 data center. Coming on top of a separate $1.25B/month Anthropic pact unveiled May 6 for the full ~220,000-GPU, 300 MW Colossus 1 capacity, the deal lifts SpaceX's disclosed AI-compute backlog to more than $70 billion and reframes the post-xAI-merger company as a major AI hyperscaler days before its planned June 12 Nasdaq debut under ticker SPCX.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/", "name": "TechCrunch" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html", "name": "CNBC" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-05-spacex-ipo-prices-135", "date": "2026-06-05", "title": "SpaceX prices IPO at $135 for $1.77T valuation, biggest ever", "summary": "SpaceX on June 3 set a fixed $135-per-share price for its Nasdaq IPO, targeting a roughly $1.77 trillion valuation and about $75 billion in proceeds - a deal that would dwarf Saudi Aramco's 2019 record to become the largest public offering in history. The investor roadshow kicked off June 4 with 555.6 million shares on offer, Goldman Sachs leading a syndicate including Morgan Stanley, BofA, Citi and JPMorgan, trading expected to start on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX on June 12, and Elon Musk retaining roughly 82% voting control after pricing.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/spacex-ipo-stock-price-roadshow-musk.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/06/04/why-spacex-breaking-ipo-playbook-75-billion-fixed-price-offering/", "name": "Fortune" }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/business/spacex-ipo-valuation-musk", "name": "CNN Business" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-02-spacex-golden-dome-amti-contract", "date": "2026-06-02", "title": "SpaceX wins $4.16B Space Force contract for Golden Dome AMTI satellites", "summary": "The U.S. Space Force on May 29 awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites carrying airborne moving target indicator (AMTI) sensors for the Trump administration's Golden Dome homeland missile-defense initiative. The single award - larger than the combined prototype contracts handed to every other Golden Dome bidder - lifts SpaceX's total Golden Dome book to roughly $6.45B and cements it as the program's primary commercial space-layer builder as procurement accelerates toward an initial operational layer.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/spacex-wins-4-billion-contract-for-us-golden-dome-satellites", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2184272/spacex-lands-a-4-billion-contract-to-help-build-trump-golden-dome/", "name": "Engadget" }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/spacex-4-billion-golden-dome-amti-satellite-contract", "name": "The Next Web" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-05-30-faa-grounds-starship-v3", "date": "2026-05-30", "title": "FAA grounds SpaceX Starship V3 after Flight 12 booster mishap", "summary": "The FAA on May 27 formally classified Starship Flight 12 - the May 22 debut of the upgraded Starship V3 - as a mishap and required SpaceX to complete an investigation before Flight 13 can fly. The Super Heavy booster failed to ignite all planned engines during its boostback maneuver, cutting the burn short, and the regulator will oversee SpaceX's report and any fixes before granting a modified launch license.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/spacex-starship-rocket-grounded-by-faa-after-launch-mishap", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/faa-orders-spacex-to-investigate-starship-v3-booster-failure/", "name": "TechCrunch" } ] } ] } }