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That index does not print 7:05 p.m. NASA's station blog says CRS-35 docked at 11 a.m. EDT on Oct. 15 to Harmony's space-facing port. The prelaunch release says the spacecraft stays until mid-November and that the roll-out solar arrays will be installed later this fall. No calendar undock date, EVA date, or Dragon tail number was printed. A rendered Bandwagon-5 page says liftoff was 7:04 a.m. ET on Oct. 20, the first stage landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, Starfall deployed at T+02:48:28, and four ICEYE satellites plus W-Series 7 separated. It does not name booster B1085. A later direct fetch of that URL returned only the site shell. FAA docket FAA-2026-12808, published Oct. 14, says a draft programmatic EIS will be released later and that scoping comments are due Nov. 30, 2026. The notice describes SpaceX's proposed action as up to 456 annual launches and 912 annual landings. It does not quote a separate written SpaceX filing. 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Q3 revenue remains the reported $14.575 billion.", "source": "https://www.easyjet.com/en/news/airline/story/easyjet-to-offer-connectivity-onboard-for-the-first-time-with-starlink-the-fastest-wi-fi-in-the-sky-with-rapid-roll-out-coming-from-2027", "status": "Operational; Q3 reported, GPU lease not closed, easyJet Wi-Fi planned", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-27" }, "revenueStreams": [ { "name": "Starlink Subscriptions", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/spacex-starlink-growth-profit-nasdaq-ipo.html", "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).", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "Starlink Mobile (Direct-to-Cell)", "source": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fcc-approves-echostars-40bn-spectrum-sales-to-att-spacex/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-29" }, { "name": "NASA Crew & Cargo Missions", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/", "description": "Dragon missions for NASA crew rotation, cargo resupply, and private astronaut flights to the International Space Station.", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "Commercial Launch Services", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/rideshare", "description": "Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches for commercial satellite operators, including rideshare missions at $275K for 50 kg to SSO.", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "name": "National Security Launches", "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/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "name": "Starshield Government Services", "source": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/exclusive-uk-deepens-reliance-musks-spacex-spending-nearly-40-million-satellite-services-6376021", "description": "Government-focused satellite services built on SpaceX launch and Starlink platform capabilities for secure communications and other national-security missions. A September 2026 UK MoD FOI made Britain the first country outside the United States to publicly acknowledge a Starshield buy (about 1,000 terminals and 13 million pounds spent).", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13" }, { "name": "AI Compute Services (Colossus)", "source": "https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/spcx/transcripts/740754-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/", "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). On September 10, 2026 CFO Bret Johnsen said SpaceX had closed another unnamed hosting deal earlier in September at about $1.11B a month from December 1 (~$13B annualized), typically on 90-day commits with a 90-day out. 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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-17" } ], "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "Falcon Booster Landings", "value": "662 after booster B1093 landed on Of Course I Still Love You following Starlink 15-27 on September 19, 2026, per Spaceflight Now's post-launch report", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/19/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-27-starlink-v2-mini-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "label": "Valuation", "value": "SPCX closed Friday September 18, 2026 at $152.71, down 1.36% on the day after a $150.88 close on September 16, still above the $135 IPO price. The third lockup tranche unlocked September 9 (about 319 million shares) and SPCX fell 3.9% that session to $147.55; a 59.1 million affiliate block followed September 10. Next calendar unlocks are about 328 million shares on September 24, then October 9 and October 24. Q2 2026 results (August 4) remain the latest reported quarter: $7.8B revenue (+92% YoY) and a $541M net loss, with $47.5B backlog and $100B cash. The August 3 52-week low was $104.83.", "source": "https://exa.ai/library/markets/stock/SPCX?date=2026-09-18", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "label": "2026 Falcon Launches", "value": "107 Falcon 9 launches YTD as of Starlink 15-27 on September 19, 2026 from Vandenberg SLC-4E (the 702nd Falcon-family flight after the September 16 USSF-259 701st). SpaceX's launches page next lists USSF-385 on September 26, Starship Flight 14 on September 28, and Crew-13 on October 1", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-launch-group-15-27-landing-ocisly", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "label": "2025 Launches", "value": "165 Falcon missions (annual record; 167 orbital flights incl. Starship) - still the standing 2025 total as re-verified September 13, 2026", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-shatters-its-rocket-launch-record-yet-again-167-orbital-flights-in-2025", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13" }, { "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. No newer official subscriber print as of September 17, 2026. SpaceX targets ~25M active users by year-end 2026", "source": "https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/spacex-reaches-milestone-starlink-internet-032052994.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-17" }, { "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) plus a new unnamed hosting deal closed in early September 2026 that CFO Bret Johnsen said bills about $1.11B a month from December 1 (~$13B annualized). The named three deals still run at roughly $2.32B/month; Johnsen said almost all compute contracts are 90-day commits with a 90-day out (about six-month terms). SpaceX's Q2 2026 earnings report separately disclosed $14.1B of new Cloud Services Agreements signed in the quarter plus a further $6.7B booked in the opening weeks of Q3 2026. Johnsen also restated a $100B year-end ARR target on a December-annualized basis.", "source": "https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/spcx/transcripts/740754-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-17" }, { "note": "Day-105 lockup session plus next cash close. Next calendar unlocks remain October 9 and October 24. Q2 2026 remains the latest reported quarter.", "label": "Valuation", "value": "SPCX closed September 25, 2026 at $148.68 (stockanalysis), after $148.03 on September 24 when the Day-105 IPO lockup of about 328 million shares became eligible. Market cap $2.02T. Still above the $135 IPO price.", "source": "https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/spcx/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-26" }, { "note": "Starship Flight 14 on September 28 is a separate vehicle. Crew-13, Transporter-18, and NROL-97 remain posted for October 1 and had not flown as of this check.", "label": "2026 Falcon Launches", "value": "108 Falcon 9 launches YTD as of USSF-385 on September 26, 2026 from Vandenberg SLC-4E, per Space.com, after Starlink 15-27 on September 19 was the 107th.", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-classified-mystery-mission-for-us-space-force-from-california", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-30" }, { "note": "Day-105 lockup of about 328 million shares became eligible September 24 (close $148.03 that day, $148.68 on September 25). NextSteps lack expectedHash so that tranche cannot be marked hit here.", "label": "Valuation", "value": "SPCX closed September 29, 2026 at $149.24 (stockanalysis; 13.57B shares; market cap $2.03T), after $145.47 on September 28.", "source": "https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/spcx/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-30" }, { "note": "Day-105 lockup became eligible September 24. Next calendar unlocks remain October 9 and October 24. Q2 2026 remains the latest reported quarter.", "label": "Valuation", "value": "SPCX closed October 5, 2026 at $171.09 (stockanalysis; 13.57B shares; market cap $2.32T).", "source": "https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/spcx/", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-06" } ], "nextSteps": [ { "title": "Next post-IPO lock-up tranche unlocks (~September 24, 2026)", "source": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/09/11/spacex-fell-3-9-on-its-third-lockup-release-since-the-ipo-i-d-wait-to-buy-the-stock/", "targetDate": "2026-09-24", "description": "The Day-90 lockup tranche unlocked on schedule on September 9, 2026, freeing about 319 million Class A shares; SPCX fell 3.9% that day to $147.55. A separate 59.1 million affiliate block became eligible September 10. The next calendar release is up to about 328 million shares on September 24, 2026 (Day 105), followed by October 9 and October 24, then a much larger batch two trading days after Q3 results, before the remaining 180-day lockup expires December 8, 2026. Elon Musk's roughly 6B-share stake stays locked until June 2027.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "title": "Fly Starfall's first commercial mission with Space Cargo", "source": "https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacexs-first-starfall-customer-is-european-mission-integrator-space-cargo-2026-09-15/", "targetDate": "2028", "description": "Space Cargo CEO Nicolas Gaume told Reuters on September 15, 2026 that the Luxembourg integrator is Starfall's first known customer and will fly its BentoBox payload system inside a Starfall capsule on Starship's first commercial mission, planned for 2028. The box is meant to secure up to about 1 ton of customer payloads through reentry, with nearly half of the first-mission pipeline in life sciences. SpaceX did not comment and has not itself dated Starship's first commercial flight. A second Starfall prototype reentry test, approved by the FAA, remains unflown.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-15" }, { "title": "Artemis lunar lander (HLS)", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches", "targetDate": "2027-2028", "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, which SpaceX's launches page listed on September 19, 2026 for September 28 from Starbase - and the in-orbit propellant-transfer capability the lunar lander depends on. As of September 19, 2026, Isaacman's August 14 statement remains NASA's most recent public HLS assessment; no new lunar-lander schedule update had been issued since.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "title": "Launch Starmind AI1 orbital-compute prototype", "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-24/spacex-s-musk-sees-orbital-data-center-launch-near-end-of-2027", "targetDate": "Q4 2027", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13" }, { "title": "Start construction of Starbase Louisiana", "source": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/spacex-launches-new-era-of-commercial-spaceflight-with-100-billion-louisiana-campus", "targetDate": "Construction 2027; first launch as soon as 2029", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13" }, { "title": "Build Terafab, a joint SpaceX-Tesla chip factory in Texas", "source": "https://www.itechguides.com/tesla-terafab-what-the-25-billion-chip-fab-plan-actually-means-in-august-2026/", "targetDate": "Late 2020s", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "title": "Mars cargo architecture", "source": "https://www.investors.com/news/spacex-starship-flight-14-launch-postponed-elon-musk-spcx-stock/", "targetDate": "Late 2020s+", "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, which SpaceX's launches page listed on September 19, 2026 for September 28 from Starbase, with the first tower-catch attempt of the upper stage still pushed to a few months after that. The S-1 explicitly anchors the long-term mission of making life multiplanetary on this architecture.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "title": "Scale AI compute capacity toward 10 GW", "source": "https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/spcx/transcripts/740754-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/", "targetDate": "A little over 2 GW by end of 2026; 5-10 GW deployed in 2027", "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. On September 10, 2026 CFO Bret Johnsen restated that plan at Goldman Sachs Communacopia: ending 2026 a little over 2 GW, a 5-10 GW deployed range in 2027, Nvidia exclusive, and a $100B year-end ARR target on a December-annualized basis after closing an unnamed hosting deal at about $1.11B a month from December 1. He said SpaceX has line of sight to the power, facilities and permits needed for that 2027 range.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-17" }, { "title": "Fix AI data-center reliability and meet the Google GPU delivery deadline", "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/spacex-ai-buildout-shows-cracks-184838938.html", "targetDate": "2026-09-30", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-17" }, { "title": "Hit $1 trillion in annual revenue by 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", "targetDate": "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. 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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.", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-29", "outcomeSource": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/08/29/nasa-spacex-adjust-crew-13-launch-date/" }, { "title": "Second post-IPO lock-up tranche unlocks (Day-70, ~319M shares)", "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", "targetDate": "2026-08-20 (Day-70 calendar lock-up tranche)", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28", "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.", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-20", "outcomeSource": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/20/spacex-drops-6-dips-below-its-ipo-price-as-319m-shares-unlock-rocket-lab-falls-4/" }, { "title": "Third post-IPO lock-up tranche unlocks (Day-90, ~319M shares)", "source": "https://www.benzinga.com/trading-ideas/movers/26/08/61329245/spacexs-second-unlock-hits-319-million-shares-go-loose-today", "status": "hit", "targetDate": "2026-09-09", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13", "outcomeNote": "SpaceX's Day-90 lockup tranche unlocked on schedule on September 9, 2026, freeing about 319 million Class A shares. SPCX fell 3.9% that day to $147.55. A 59.1 million affiliate block followed September 10. The next calendar tranche is about 328 million shares on September 24.", "resolvedDate": "2026-09-09", "outcomeSource": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/09/11/spacex-fell-3-9-on-its-third-lockup-release-since-the-ipo-i-d-wait-to-buy-the-stock/" }, { "title": "Starship Flight 14 (FCC earliest window September 15, 2026)", "source": "https://starpath.global/news/spacex-fcc-filing-outlines-first-full-orbital-attempt-for-starship-flight-14/", "status": "slipped", "targetDate": "2026-09-15", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13", "outcomeNote": "Flight 14 did not fly in the September 15 FCC earliest window. The FAA later listed a primary airspace window of September 18, 2026 (12:15-14:14 UTC) with September 19 as backup, and SpaceX had not posted a mission page as of September 12. The first orbital-insertion attempt remains expected in that new window.", "resolvedDate": "2026-09-12", "outcomeSource": "https://ts2.tech/en/faa-lists-september-18-for-starship-flight-14-spacex-hasnt-confirmed-it/" }, { "title": "Close $60B Cursor (Anysphere) acquisition", "source": "https://satnews.com/2026/08/12/spacex-finalizes-regulatory-procedures-to-close-60-billion-acquisition-of-ai-platform-cursor/", "status": "hit", "targetDate": "Late August 2026", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-18", "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.", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-15", "outcomeSource": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-cursor-60-billion-ai-acquisition/" }, { "title": "First public earnings report as a public company", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/spacex-spcx-earnings-lock-up-expiration.html", "status": "hit", "targetDate": "August 2026", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-05", "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.", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-04", "outcomeSource": "https://s21.q4cdn.com/184289198/files/doc_financials/2026/q2/SpaceX-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-Results.pdf" }, { "title": "Record lock-up unlock and post-earnings stock reaction", "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", "targetDate": "August 2026", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-12", "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.", "resolvedDate": "2026-08-06", "outcomeSource": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacexs-lockup-expires-aug-6-080500494.html" }, { "title": "Launch Crew-13 from SLC-40 at the posted 11:10 a.m. ET October 1 window", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/crew13", "status": "hit", "targetId": "e960db53-ca48-5410-87db-021efde357b0", "outcomeId": "fdfa7e01-ee4b-5e93-bb91-1ec4b08464c9", "targetDate": "October 1, 2026 11:10 ET; backup October 2 10:47 ET", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-06", "milestoneId": "3a9c7e12-6b40-4d81-a2f5-8c1d0e9f4b27", "outcomeNote": "Falcon 9 lifted Crew-13 from SLC-40 at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026. NASA said Dragon hatch opened at 9:19 p.m. EDT and Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, and Sergey Teteryatnikov entered the station and joined Expedition 75. This run did not independently fetch the NASA docking blog, so the 7:05 p.m. Harmony docking already on the timeline is not restated here.", "resolvedDate": "2026-10-01", "targetWindow": { "label": "October 1, 2026 11:10 ET; backup October 2 10:47 ET", "windowEnd": null, "windowStart": null }, "outcomeSource": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/10/01/spacex-crew-13-approaching-station-aboard-dragon/" }, { "title": "Launch Crew-13 to the ISS", "source": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/2026/09/17/nasa-spacex-continue-crew-13-prep-as-crew-enters-quarantine/", "status": "hit", "targetId": "c3e2de92-f534-5c88-b998-6907d2aa34fc", "outcomeId": "dd146990-e5b5-58ac-8bb4-3f98e6849e02", "targetDate": "Early October 2026 (NASA/SpaceX targeting that window; official date not yet posted)", "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. On September 16, 2026 NASA's ISS account said SpaceX had replaced the oxidizer valve and that NASA and SpaceX are now targeting as soon as early October to finish prelaunch work, readiness reviews and ISS coordination. On September 17 the four-person crew - NASA's Jessica Watkins (commander) and Luke Delaney (pilot), CSA's Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos's Sergey Teteryatnikov - entered prelaunch quarantine at Johnson Space Center. No specific launch date has been posted. The Dragon flight will lift off on a Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center, continuing the Commercial Crew Program's regular ISS rotations.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-22", "milestoneId": "2f6a9c14-5e38-4b71-9d04-7a1c8e3b5f20", "outcomeNote": "NASA's commercial crew blog says Crew-13 arrived at the station at 7 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026 and docked to Harmony's forward port. The blog index does not print 7:05 p.m.", "resolvedDate": "2026-10-01", "targetWindow": { "label": "Early October 2026 (NASA/SpaceX targeting that window; official date not yet posted)", "windowEnd": null, "windowStart": null }, "outcomeSource": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/" }, { "title": "Demonstrate Starship V3 booster catch and orbital propellant transfer", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches", "status": "missed", "targetId": "60c20e6f-f48d-5e82-abca-6ae0b81569c2", "outcomeId": "89c46bc4-f2f5-5f89-86c9-31546798d709", "targetDate": "September 28, 2026 (pending regulatory approval); ship catch a few months later", "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. SpaceX posted the Flight 14 mission page on September 15 targeting Tuesday September 22, 2026 from Starbase, then said on September 17 that it is now targeting as early as Monday September 28 pending regulatory approval. As of September 19, SpaceX's launches page lists Flight 14 for September 28, 2026 (08:15-09:30 ET) from Pad 2, Starbase. The flight is planned as Starship's first orbital insertion: Ship at about 275 km, roughly six orbits over nearly 10 hours, 26 Starlink V3 satellites (the first V3s meant to join the constellation), then a Pacific splashdown west of Chile. Super Heavy is to splash in the Gulf of Mexico about seven minutes after liftoff; SpaceX is not attempting a tower catch of either stage on this flight. Musk has said the first ship catch will wait a few months, pushing the first Starship reflight out to around the end of 2026 or early 2027. 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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-22", "milestoneId": "4c8e1a27-6b90-4d53-a1f2-8e5c3b7d0a16", "outcomeNote": "The launches table lists Starship Flight 14 on Sept. 28, 2026 as expended. The flight did not demonstrate a booster catch. The separate ship-catch step remains undated. No new dated catch or propellant-transfer target was added.", "resolvedDate": "2026-09-28", "targetWindow": { "label": "September 28, 2026 (pending regulatory approval); ship catch a few months later", "windowEnd": null, "windowStart": null }, "outcomeSource": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/bandwagon-5" } ], "timeline": [ { "year": 2002, "title": "Founded", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Founding", "description": "Elon Musk founds SpaceX with the goal of reducing space transportation costs.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2008, "title": "Falcon 1 reaches orbit", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1", "description": "First privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to reach Earth orbit.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2010, "title": "Falcon 9 first flight", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9", "description": "Successful maiden flight of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2012, "title": "Dragon docks with ISS", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon", "description": "First commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2015, "title": "First booster landing", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_flight_20", "description": "Falcon 9 first stage lands successfully after an orbital mission - a historic first.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2020, "title": "Crew Dragon Demo-2", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2", "description": "First crewed orbital mission by a private company, sending NASA astronauts to the ISS.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2023, "title": "Starship test flights begin", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "description": "Starship/Super Heavy conducts first integrated flight tests from Starbase, Texas.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2024, "title": "Starship booster catch & Polaris Dawn", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2025, "title": "Record 165 launches & Starlink Direct-to-Cell", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-shatters-its-rocket-launch-record-yet-again-167-orbital-flights-in-2025", "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).", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2025, "title": "Secondary sale values SpaceX at about $800B", "source": "https://www.business-standard.com/markets/ipo/spacex-files-for-ipo-confidentially-eyes-usd-1-75-trillion-valuation-report-126040101452_1.html", "description": "A secondary share sale values SpaceX at roughly $800B, underscoring the scale of its launch and Starlink businesses ahead of public-market preparations.", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "xAI merger and public IPO filing", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "First Starship V3 flight (Flight 12)", "source": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-first-starship-v3/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FAA classifies Flight 12 a mishap and grounds Starship V3", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$4.16B Space Force Golden Dome AMTI award", "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/spacex-wins-4-billion-contract-for-us-golden-dome-satellites", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq in largest IPO ever", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-price-date.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "IPO priced at $135 for $1.77T valuation", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/spacex-ipo-stock-price-roadshow-musk.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$1.25B/month Anthropic Colossus 1 compute deal", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$30B Google Colossus 1 compute deal", "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starlink crosses 12M active customers", "source": "https://www.techspot.com/news/112669-starlink-crosses-12-million-active-users-spacex-outlines.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 booster sets 35-flight orbital reuse record", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-10-35-b1067-ccsfs-asog", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Up-to-$6.3B Reflection AI Colossus 2 compute deal", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Debut investment-grade bond sale priced at $25B", "source": "https://ir.spacex.com/updates/releases-details/2026/SpaceX-Announces-Pricing-of-25-Billion-Inaugural-Bond-Issuance-2026-33VwNgsx3O/default.aspx", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FCC clears ~$17B EchoStar spectrum buy; Shotwell unveils Starlink Mobile carrier push", "source": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fcc-approves-echostars-40bn-spectrum-sales-to-att-spacex/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-29" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starfall cargo reentry capsule debut", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/23/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-reentry-capsule-demo-mission-called-starfall/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "SpaceX added to the Nasdaq-100 index", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/spacex-added-to-nasdaq-100.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 13 aborted seconds before liftoff", "source": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-aborts-starship-flight-13-launch-attempt/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 13 succeeds; first operational Starlink V3 deploy", "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", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-25" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$1.6B Space Force order for 18 Falcon 9 launches", "source": "https://thedefensepost.com/2026/07/30/us-rocket-launch-spacex/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-30" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Launches classified NROL-95 mission for the NRO", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/29/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-classified-payload-for-national-reconnaissance-office/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-02" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Agrees to acquire Cursor-maker Anysphere for $60B", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisition-ipo.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "First earnings report as a public company", "source": "https://s21.q4cdn.com/184289198/files/doc_financials/2026/q2/SpaceX-Reports-Second-Quarter-2026-Results.pdf", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Record post-IPO lock-up expires", "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacexs-lockup-expires-aug-6-080500494.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starlink tops 13M subscribers and 22M Starlink Mobile users", "source": "https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/spacex-reaches-milestone-starlink-internet-032052994.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Closes $60B Cursor (Anysphere) acquisition", "source": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-cursor-60-billion-ai-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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-18" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "100th mission of 2026 and 651st booster landing", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-100-launches-2026-starlink-group-17-50-launch", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Last Florida Falcon 9 Starlink launch", "source": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/spacex-ends-falcon-9-starlink-180904062.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-26" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Announces $100B Starbase Louisiana spaceport", "source": "https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/spacex-launches-new-era-of-commercial-spaceflight-with-100-billion-louisiana-campus", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Second lock-up tranche unlocks; SPCX dips below IPO price", "source": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/20/spacex-drops-6-dips-below-its-ipo-price-as-319m-shares-unlock-rocket-lab-falls-4/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 tops 100 launches for the year; B1067 sets 37th-flight reuse record", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-record-37th-booster-flight-100-falcon-9-launches", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Flight 13 upper stage recovered intact; departs Christmas Island for Starbase", "source": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/spacex-rocket-begins-journey-back-to-texas-from-christmas-island/107079554", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-29" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/nvidia-discloses-21-billion-stake-in-spacex-at-end-of-second-quarter.html", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Golden Dome-related contracts tallied above $8B", "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/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon Heavy launches NASA's Roman Space Telescope", "source": "https://spacenews.com/falcon-heavy-launches-nasas-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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Super Heavy completes 33-engine static fire for Flight 14", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-test-fires-starship-super-heavy-booster-ahead-of-key-test-flight", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-31" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FAA issues FONSI for Starship Pacific reentry and extra Starbase path", "source": "https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_starship/", "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.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-06" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches classified USSF-153 from Vandenberg", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/ussf153", "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. The Debrief reported the flight as SpaceX's 104th Falcon 9 mission of 2026.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-10" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Third IPO lockup tranche unlocks; SPCX falls 3.9%", "source": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/09/11/spacex-fell-3-9-on-its-third-lockup-release-since-the-ipo-i-d-wait-to-buy-the-stock/", "description": "On September 9, 2026 SpaceX's Day-90 lockup tranche unlocked on schedule, freeing about 319 million Class A shares. SPCX fell 3.9% that session to $147.55. A separate 59.1 million affiliate block became eligible September 10. Shares then recovered to close Friday September 11 at $151.21. The next calendar unlock is about 328 million shares on September 24.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FAA lists September 18 as Starship Flight 14 primary window", "source": "https://ts2.tech/en/faa-lists-september-18-for-starship-flight-14-spacex-hasnt-confirmed-it/", "description": "The FAA Space Operations Advisory listed a primary Starship Flight 14 airspace window of Friday September 18, 2026 (12:15-14:14 UTC) with September 19 as backup, slipping past the September 15 earliest date in SpaceX's early-September FCC filing. As of September 12 SpaceX had not posted a Flight 14 mission page; the test remains the program's first planned orbital insertion with about 20 Starlink V3 satellites.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "UK MoD discloses first public non-US Starshield buy", "source": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/exclusive-uk-deepens-reliance-musks-spacex-spending-nearly-40-million-satellite-services-6376021", "description": "A UK Ministry of Defence FOI response, reported by Reuters on September 10, 2026, showed Britain is the first country outside the United States to publicly acknowledge buying SpaceX Starshield. The MoD listed about 1,000 Starshield terminals and 500 Starlink terminals, with roughly 13 million pounds ($17.6 million) spent on Starshield and 16.5 million pounds on Starlink, or nearly $40 million combined. Starshield airtime was first bought for Starlink terminals in 2024, with dedicated Starshield hardware arriving last year. SpaceX did not comment; New Zealand is trialling Starshield.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 flies 700th Falcon mission with final O3b mPOWER sats", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/13/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-final-3-o3b-mpower-satellites-for-ses/", "description": "On September 13, 2026 at 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 UTC), a Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying SES's final three O3b mPOWER satellites (F11-F13). Spaceflight Now counted it as the 700th Falcon-family launch (687 Falcon 9 and 13 Falcon Heavy) and Space.com as SpaceX's 105th Falcon 9 and 107th orbital mission of 2026. Booster B1080 flew for the 29th time and landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, the 661st Falcon booster landing. The Boeing-built satellites deployed around 8,000 km in medium Earth orbit about 33.5 minutes after liftoff and complete a 13-satellite constellation; SES says they will enter service by mid-2027.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-14" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Space Cargo named first known Starfall customer", "source": "https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacexs-first-starfall-customer-is-european-mission-integrator-space-cargo-2026-09-15/", "description": "On September 15, 2026 Space Cargo CEO Nicolas Gaume told Reuters the Luxembourg mission integrator is the first known customer for SpaceX's Starfall cargo-return capsule. Space Cargo plans to fly its BentoBox system inside a Starfall capsule on Starship's first commercial mission, targeted for 2028, carrying up to about 1 ton of customer payloads, nearly half in life sciences. SpaceX did not comment. Starfall flew a demo capsule on Falcon 9 on June 23, 2026.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-15" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "SpaceX targets September 22 for Starship Flight 14 first orbit", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14", "description": "On September 15, 2026 SpaceX posted the Flight 14 mission page targeting Tuesday September 22 from Starbase, with a 75-minute window opening at 7:15 a.m. Central Time (12:15 UTC) pending regulatory approval. The flight is planned as Starship's first orbital insertion: Ship at about 275 km, roughly six orbits over nearly 10 hours, 26 Starlink V3 satellites (three carrying cameras to photograph the heat shield), then a Pacific splashdown west of Chile. Super Heavy is to splash in the Gulf of Mexico about seven minutes after liftoff; SpaceX is not attempting a tower catch of either stage.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-16" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "CFO discloses unnamed $13B ARR hosting deal and 5-10 GW 2027 compute range", "source": "https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/spcx/transcripts/740754-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/", "description": "On September 10, 2026 CFO Bret Johnsen told Goldman Sachs Communacopia that SpaceX had closed another unnamed terrestrial AI hosting deal earlier in September, billing about $1.11B a month from December 1 (roughly $13B annualized). He said the company is on track for $100B ARR by year-end on a December-annualized basis, will end 2026 a little over 2 GW of terrestrial compute, and is targeting a 5-10 GW deployed range in 2027, remaining Nvidia-exclusive. He also described the compute book as typically 90-day commits with a 90-day out (about six-month terms) and said Flight 14 later in September would be Starship's first revenue-generating flight, carrying production Starlink V3 satellites.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-17" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 14 slips six days to September 28", "source": "https://www.investors.com/news/spacex-starship-flight-14-launch-postponed-elon-musk-spcx-stock/", "description": "On September 17, 2026 SpaceX said it is now targeting Starship Flight 14 as early as Monday September 28 from Starbase, pending regulatory approval, moving off the September 22 target it had posted on the mission page two days earlier. The company gave no reason for the slip and published no revised mission clock or new FAA airspace window alongside the date. The flight profile stands: first orbital insertion, 26 Starlink V3 satellites at about 275 km, roughly six orbits, Pacific splashdown west of Chile, Super Heavy Gulf splash and no tower catch of either stage.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-18" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches classified USSF-259 from Vandenberg", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/15/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-national-security-payload-for-the-u-s-space-force-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg/", "description": "On September 16, 2026 at 6:07:56 p.m. PDT (0107:56 UTC on September 17), a Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying the classified USSF-259 mission for the U.S. Space Force, after a September 15 attempt was scrubbed before fueling. Spaceflight Now identified the flight as SpaceX's third NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 launch in a month (after USSF-366 on August 15 and USSF-153 on September 10) and as the 701st Falcon-family mission following the September 13 O3b mPOWER 700th. Booster B1097 flew its 13th mission and landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific. Public documents label the payload TH-1; SSC has not confirmed satellite counts. A related R-3 mission is scheduled around September 27.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches Starlink 15-27 from Vandenberg", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/19/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-27-starlink-v2-mini-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg/", "description": "On September 19, 2026 at 6:47 p.m. PDT (0147 UTC on September 20), a Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg carrying 27 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites on Starlink 15-27. Booster B1093 flew its 17th mission and landed on Of Course I Still Love You, which Spaceflight Now counted as the 662nd Falcon booster landing. Space.com counted the flight as the 107th Falcon 9 and 81st Starlink mission of 2026. SpaceX's launches page lists the mission as complete.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Crew-13 posted for October 1 from SLC-40", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches", "description": "SpaceX's launches board now lists Crew-13 for October 1, 2026 at 11:10 ET from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral, with a landing-zone return. SpaceX posted on September 22 that it is targeting no earlier than Thursday October 1. Secondary reporting the next day said NASA is targeting 11:10 a.m. EDT that day, with a Friday October 2 10:47 a.m. EDT backup. This is the first posted clock after the August 29 oxidizer-leak slip from September 12. NASA's commercial-crew blog timed out this run.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 14 stacked at Pad 2", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/23/spacex-stack-starship-and-super-heavy-for-first-orbital-flight/", "description": "In the early hours of September 23, 2026 SpaceX stacked Ship 41 on Super Heavy booster B21 at Pad 2, Starbase, after the ship rolled from the production site around 7:45 p.m. CDT on September 22. Spaceflight Now said the stacked vehicle awaited FAA approval for Flight 14, still listed on SpaceX's mission page for as early as Monday September 28 with a 75-minute window opening at 7:15 a.m. CT. The mission page adds that two tiles recovered from Flight 13's Ship 40 are planned to fly again on Ship 41, the first Starship tile reuse.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "NASA adds Crew-15 through Crew-17 to Falcon/Dragon CCtCap", "source": "https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/commercial-crew/nasa-awards-spacex-three-crew-flights-to-space-station/", "description": "NASA awarded SpaceX a firm fixed-price CCtCap modification covering Crew-15, Crew-16 and Crew-17. NASA's September 18 release put the value at $946 million, taking SpaceX to 17 commercial-crew missions and $5.92 billion on the contract, with a period of performance through 2030 and mission readiness dates in 2027 and 2028. SpaceX confirmed the same day that Falcon 9 and Dragon will fly the missions from Florida. NASA has not named crews or exact launch dates for those three flights. This is a contract ceiling for three additional rotations, not recognized revenue.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Google books Suncatcher prototype on Transporter-18", "source": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/", "description": "Google said on September 24, 2026 that Project Suncatcher's first TPU prototype satellite, built with Planet, will fly on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare. Space.com reported the mission as currently scheduled for October 1. This is a Falcon 9 rideshare, not Starship Flight 14.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-25" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Polish prosecutors investigate arson at a Starlink ground station", "source": "https://www.gov.pl/web/prokuratura-krajowa/wszczecie-sledztwa-w-sprawie-pozaru-stacji-starlink-w-woli-krobowskiej", "description": "On the evening of September 23, 2026 a fire broke out at a Starlink satellite-communications ground station in Wola Krobowska, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. Poland's National Prosecutor's Office said the fire was arson causing large-scale property damage and opened an investigation into acting for a foreign intelligence service, sabotage, and a terrorism-related crime, with a reasonable suspicion the perpetrators acted on orders of Russian special services to disrupt Starlink connectivity in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. No charges had been filed. BBC reported Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski called it sabotage aimed at disrupting internet access including for Ukraine's army, and that the station remained operational. The Kremlin had not commented. BBC described a state-owned Polish station that uses SpaceX Starlink systems; this is not a confirmed SpaceX-owned site.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-26" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Transporter-18 and NROL-97 posted for October 1", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches", "description": "SpaceX's launches page lists Transporter-18 for October 1, 2026 at 11:18 PT from SLC-4E at Vandenberg, with a landing-zone return, on the same calendar day as Crew-13. Google's September 24 Project Suncatcher post said the Planet-built TPU prototype will fly on that rideshare. This is a Falcon 9 smallsat mission, not Starship Flight 14. The same board lists NROL-97 as a Falcon Heavy from LC-39A on October 1 at 23:53 ET (landing-zone / expended); it has not flown.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-26" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FAA licenses Starship Flight 14 launch and reentry", "source": "https://aviationweek.com/space/launch-vehicles-propulsion/faa-clears-spacex-starship-14-flight", "description": "The FAA said on September 27 that on September 26 it issued license authorization for SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Flight 14 launch and reentry operations. SpaceX is targeting a 75-minute window opening 7:15 a.m. Central September 28 from Pad 2 at Starbase with Ship 41 and Booster 21, first planned orbital insertion, 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and ocean splashdowns rather than tower catches. Backup beach closures are posted for September 29 and 30. This check is before the Monday window; the flight had not lifted off. FAA.gov's Starship page still does not list Flight 14.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 14 reaches orbit and deploys 26 V3s", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-megarocket-flight-14-orbital-launch-success", "description": "Flight 14 lifted off from Starbase Pad 2 at about 8:48 a.m. EDT (12:48 UTC) on September 28, 2026 with Ship 41 on Super Heavy B21. After one upper-stage engine shut down, SpaceX spokesperson Dan Huot first said the team would not commit to orbit, then reversed that call. Ship reached orbit, deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and returned after about three hours instead of the planned six orbits and nearly 10 hours. Super Heavy made a controlled Gulf of Mexico splashdown. The ship reentered for a Pacific splashdown north of Hawaii; AP said it then tipped over and erupted in flames. Reuters attributed the early return to the engine issue; AP said SpaceX gave no reason.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches classified USSF-385 from Vandenberg", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-classified-mystery-mission-for-us-space-force-from-california", "description": "On September 26, 2026 at 7:00 a.m. PT (10:00 a.m. EDT), a Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying the classified USSF-385 mission. Booster B1100 made its 10th flight and landing on Of Course I Still Love You about 8.5 minutes later. Space.com counted it as the 108th Falcon 9 of 2026 and the third Space Force flight from Vandenberg in 16 days after USSF-153 and USSF-259. Payload, destination, and activities remain undisclosed; SpaceX cut the webcast after booster landing. A Starshield payload remains unconfirmed by the Space Force.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-30" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Crew-13 launches to ISS on Dragon Grace", "source": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/10/01/nasas-spacex-crew-13-reaches-orbit-news-conference-at-1245-p-m-edt/", "description": "On Oct. 1, 2026 at 11:10 a.m. EDT, a Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov aboard Dragon Grace. NASA said Grace reached orbit, separated from the second stage and opened its nosecone, targeting a 7 p.m. EDT docking at Harmony's space-facing port, called the fastest launch-to-docking in ISS history. Space.com reported booster B1101 landed at LZ-40 about 7 minutes 40 seconds after liftoff on its third flight. Docking had not yet occurred.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-01" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Transporter-18 lofts Google Suncatcher TPU pathfinder", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/spacex-google-project-suncatcher-ai-satellite-transporter-18-mission", "description": "On Oct. 1, 2026 at 2:32 p.m. EDT, a Falcon 9 lifted Transporter-18 from Vandenberg SLC-4E with 130 payloads, including Google's Project Suncatcher TPU pathfinder hosted with Planet Labs. Space.com said the first stage landed at LZ-4 about 7.5 minutes later on its 25th flight. Payload deployments were due about 54.5 minutes after liftoff and were not independently confirmed at this update. This was SpaceX's second launch of the day after Crew-13.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-01" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Crew-13 Dragon Grace docks at ISS Harmony", "source": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/10/01/dragon-docks-bringing-spacex-crew-13-to-station/", "description": "On Oct. 1, 2026 at 7:05 p.m. EDT, Dragon Grace docked to the ISS Harmony module's forward port with NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov. NASA said the 7-hour 55-minute trip was the fastest launch-to-docking of a U.S. spacecraft in ISS history. Hatch opening after leak checks was planned for about 8:45 p.m.; the NASA hatch-join blog timed out here so onboard entry is not recorded. Space.com said the crew will stay about six months and that Crew-12 could return as soon as Oct. 5.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-02" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon Heavy launches classified NROL-97 for NRO", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/01/falcon-heavy-to-fly-its-first-mission-for-u-s-spy-satellite-agency/", "description": "On Oct. 1, 2026 at 11:54 p.m. EDT, Falcon Heavy lifted classified NROL-97 from Kennedy LC-39A, the NRO's first Falcon Heavy after 22 Falcon 9 flights and its first NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 mission. Spaceflight Now and NASASpaceFlight said side boosters B1072 (fourth flight) and B1104 (second flight) landed at LZ-1 and LZ-2 while new center core B1106 was expended on a northeasterly high-energy trajectory. Payload identity and upper-stage deploy were not disclosed; SpaceX ended the webcast after booster landing. Spaceflight Now counted it as SpaceX's third Falcon launch of the day and the first day it landed four boosters.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-02" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Crew-13 hatch opens; crew joins Expedition 75", "source": "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/10/01/NASAs-Crew-13-boards-ISS-after-record-fast-flight/2001790865301/", "description": "NASA said Crew-13 Dragon hatch opened at 9:19 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026, after docking at 7:05 p.m. EDT. Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk and Sergey Teteryatnikov entered the station and joined Expedition 75. UPI independently reported the same hatch time. NASA's hatch blog timed out on a direct fetch for this run; the excerpt is from the published post.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-02" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Musk named co-lead of Pentagon Project Meridian", "source": "https://media.defense.gov/2026/Sep/30/2004009287/-1/-1/1/COMMISSIONING-OF-PROJECT-MERIDIAN.PDF", "description": "On Sept. 30, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commissioned Project Meridian and, in the State of the Force speech, named SpaceX CEO Elon Musk a co-lead with Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich under Pentagon CTO Emil Michael. A same-day memorandum directs a future-warfare study with recommendations due Jan. 28, 2027; the memo itself does not name the co-leads.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-03" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Transporter-18 deploys Varda W-8 and W-9, not W-7", "source": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/varda-space-industries-launches-two-vehicles-to-orbit-at-the-same-time-302896502.html", "description": "Varda said on Oct. 1, 2026 that W-8 and W-9 launched together on SpaceX Transporter-18 from Vandenberg, the first time it put two W-series vehicles on one rocket. The release does not name W-7 on this flight. Space.com said Transporter-18 lofted 130 payloads at 2:32 p.m. EDT, including Google's Project Suncatcher TPU pathfinder. SpaceX's Transporter-18 recap page returned no usable deployment table on Oct. 6.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-06" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Musk says SpaceX and Tesla will run Terafab", "source": "https://ae.marketscreener.com/news/musk-says-tsmc-won-t-run-terafab-ai-chip-complex-ce785dd9d180f622", "description": "On Oct. 7, 2026 Elon Musk said Tesla and SpaceX will build and run the planned Terafab AI chip complex in Texas, writing that TSMC might sublease part of the site but would not own or operate the fab. Reuters reported Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan told Bloomberg the same day that Intel remains involved. TSMC and Intel did not immediately comment. A TSMC sublease is not a signed agreement.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-07" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "In talks to raise about $40B for Nvidia GPUs", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/spacex-nvidia-chips-apollo-financing.html", "description": "On Oct. 6-7, 2026 the Financial Times, Reuters, and CNBC reported SpaceX is in talks to raise about $40 billion to buy Nvidia AI chips, with Apollo expected to lead and about $10 billion in bank loans plus $30 billion in investment-grade debt discussed. CNBC said talks remain preliminary, key lenders are not finalized, and GPUs would likely be collateral. SpaceX, Nvidia, Apollo, and PIMCO have not confirmed a signed deal.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-07" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FCC grants 15,000-satellite D2D constellation", "source": "https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-1078A1.pdf", "description": "On Oct. 6, 2026 the FCC granted in part SpaceX a 15,000-satellite NGSO D2D authorization (DA-26-1078, S00735) for U.S. SCS/MSS and international MSS/direct-to-cell. Half of authorized stations must be in assigned orbits by Oct. 7, 2032; the rest by Oct. 7, 2035. EchoStar-band commercial operations await Step Two close.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-08" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Crew-12 splashes down off Los Angeles", "source": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-12-splashes-down-sets-briefing-to-discuss-mission/", "description": "NASA said Crew-12 Dragon Freedom splashed down at 8:34 a.m. PDT on Oct. 8, 2026 off Los Angeles after a 237-day ISS stay, returning Meir, Hathaway, Adenot, and Fedyaev. SpaceX recovery teams retrieved the spacecraft.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-08" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Agrees to buy Grain nationwide 800 MHz licenses", "source": "https://graingp.com/grain-management-announces-definitive-agreement-to-sell-nationwide-800-mhz-spectrum-portfolio-to-spacex/", "description": "On Oct. 8, 2026 Grain Management announced a definitive agreement for SpaceX to acquire Grain's nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio, subject to FCC approval. SpaceX's same-day FCC public-interest statement describes a Purchase and Sale Agreement transferring up to 14 MHz of paired 800 MHz licenses to wholly owned Starlink Spectrum Holdings for a hybrid terrestrial and satellite Starlink Mobile coverage layer. Financial terms were not disclosed.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-09" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 lofts SDA T1TL-A, the fourth Tranche 1 plane", "source": "https://www.sda.mil/pae-for-missile-warning-and-tracking-and-space-development-agency-successfully-deliver-fourth-orbital-plane-of-tranche-1-satellites-to-orbit/", "description": "SDA said a Falcon 9 delivered 21 Northrop Grumman data-transport satellites from Vandenberg SLC-4E on Oct. 10, 2026, bringing on-orbit Tranche 1 vehicles to 84. Space.com timed liftoff at 12:39 a.m. PT after an Oct. 5 abort in the final minute and said booster 1103 made its sixth flight, landing at Vandenberg. SDA said this was the fourth of nine Tranche 1 missions Falcon 9 will fly, that the launches run through NSSL, and that initial warfighting capability remains 2027.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-11" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches Starlink 15-25 after a three-week gap", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-15-25", "description": "SpaceX said Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg SLC-4E at 5:28 p.m. PT on Oct. 12, 2026 (00:28 UTC Oct. 13) with 27 Starlink satellites, the first Falcon 9 Starlink flight since Sept. 19. Booster B1088 landed on Of Course I Still Love You on its 20th flight. SpaceX lists deployment at about T+1:01:58.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches NASA CRS-35", "source": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-science-cargo-launch-on-35th-spacex-resupply-mission-to-station/", "description": "On Oct. 13, 2026 at 6:33 a.m. EDT, Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-40 with NASA's 35th cargo resupply mission, more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and science, and the final pair of ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays. Booster B1096 landed at Landing Zone 40 on its eighth flight. Cargo Dragon is scheduled to dock to the Harmony space-facing port at 11 a.m. EDT on Oct. 15.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Cargo Dragon docks CRS-35 to the station", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/crs35/", "description": "SpaceX's CRS-35 page says Dragon autonomously docked with the International Space Station on 15 October 2026 at 10:27 a.m. ET, after a launch at 6:33 a.m. ET on 13 October and an approximate 52-hour flight. This was the fourth flight of that Dragon, which previously flew CRS-26, CRS-29, and CRS-33. The page does not give a C-series tail number, a departure date, or an EVA date for the final Roll-Out Solar Array pair. The NASA post-docking blog was not retrieved.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-16" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "SpaceX announces Starlink 15-25 deployment", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-falcon-9-starlink-mission-for-1st-time-in-more-than-3-weeks-photo", "description": "Space.com reported on 13 October 2026 that SpaceX announced on X that the 27 Starlink 15-25 satellites deployed 62 minutes after the 12 October liftoff. The SpaceX mission page lists deployment at about T+1:01:58 among approximate mission events. Neither page gives a satellite-by-satellite checkout or an official post-flight constellation total.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-16" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches classified USSF-481", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/15/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-classified-payload-for-u-s-space-force/", "description": "On Oct. 15, 2026 at 5:01 p.m. PDT (0001 UTC on Oct. 16), Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg SLC-4E on USSF-481. Spaceflight Now and Space.com report booster B1081, on its 28th flight, landed on Of Course I Still Love You. The payload was not disclosed. Spaceflight Now says notices also call the mission TH-2.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-16" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FAA opens Starbase review for up to 456 Starship launches a year", "source": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-14/html/2026-20963.htm", "description": "On Oct. 14, 2026 the FAA published a notice of intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for more Starship-Super Heavy operations at Starbase. The current authorization is 25 launches and 50 landings a year. The study ceiling is 456 launches and 912 landings, with a first phase of 100 launches and 200 landings. Comments are due Nov. 30, 2026. The notice does not approve a higher cadence.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-16" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Second Starfall targeted on Bandwagon-5 after a Monday scrub", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/18/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-starfall-reentry-capsule-31-customer-payloads-on-bandwagon-5-rideshare-mission/", "description": "Spaceflight Now updated on Oct. 19 that SpaceX scrubbed Bandwagon-5 on Monday for recovery-zone weather and is targeting Tuesday, Oct. 20, with a window from 6:30 a.m. EDT at SLC-40. The account says the flight carries the second uncrewed Starfall capsule. It cites an FAA environmental assessment for a vehicle about 0.75 meters tall, 3.1 meters in diameter, about 2,100 kilograms, and up to 1,000 kilograms of payload. NASASpaceFlight schedules Starfall deployment at 2 hours 48 minutes after liftoff. Neither article reports that this second capsule has flown. The June 23 debut is already on this record.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 launches Bandwagon-5 and the second Starfall", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starfall-return-capsule-launch-bandwagon-5-rideshare-mission", "description": "On Oct. 20, 2026 at 7:04 a.m. EDT (11:04 UTC), Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 on Bandwagon-5 with 32 payloads, including the second Starfall reentry capsule. Space.com reported the first stage, on its 19th flight, landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas about nine minutes later. That account said deployment was planned to run nearly two hours, with Starfall last at about 2 hours 48 minutes, and did not confirm the sequence had finished.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Reports Q3 revenue of $14.6 billion and a profit", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026066482/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "description": "On Oct. 20, 2026 SpaceX reported unaudited third-quarter revenue of $14.575 billion, up 161% from a year earlier, and net income of $4.404 billion versus a $1.054 billion loss a year earlier. Super Intelligence revenue was $7.560 billion and Connectivity revenue was $5.248 billion.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Forms a committee to discuss a Tesla merger", "source": "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-spacex-tesla-merger-rcna604685", "description": "On Oct. 20, 2026, during SpaceX's Q3 earnings call, Elon Musk said the SpaceX and Tesla boards had each formed special committees of independent directors, at shareholders' request, to discuss a merger. He said he is not on either committee, no terms have been agreed, and a deal is not guaranteed.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-21" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Q3 results and Bandwagon-5", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026066482/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "description": "On Oct. 20, 2026 SpaceX reported Q3 basic EPS of $0.37 and diluted EPS of $0.35. The unaudited statement does not print a 45-cent adjusted figure. A rendered Bandwagon-5 page says the mission lifted off at 7:04 a.m. ET that day, the first stage landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, Starfall deployed at T+02:48:28, and four ICEYE satellites and W-Series 7 separated. The page does not name booster B1085.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-22" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Signs an Apollo GPU lease commitment", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000110465926118614/tm2628247d1_8k.htm", "description": "On Oct. 24, 2026 SpaceX signed a binding commitment letter for a master finance lease of GPU pods with an Apollo-managed entity. The Oct. 26 8-K expects about $40 billion of principal payments, says the rate is not yet priced, and says the lease itself is expected to close before year-end, with schedules starting in the first half of 2027.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-26" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Launches Starlink 15-15 from Vandenberg", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-15-15", "description": "On Oct. 23, 2026 at 3:48 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink satellites from SLC-4E. SpaceX said the booster, on its 36th flight, landed on Of Course I Still Love You. The mission page lists deployment at about 62 minutes.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-26" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starlink wins an easyJet fleet installation", "source": "https://www.easyjet.com/en/news/airline/story/easyjet-to-offer-connectivity-onboard-for-the-first-time-with-starlink-the-fastest-wi-fi-in-the-sky-with-rapid-roll-out-coming-from-2027", "description": "On Oct. 26, 2026 easyJet said it will install Starlink across its Airbus A320-family fleet from the first half of 2027 through early 2028. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX president, said Starlink would serve the airline from takeoff to landing. Commercial terms were not disclosed.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-27" } ], "funding": [ { "date": "2002", "round": "Founding", "amount": "$100M", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Funding", "investors": "Elon Musk (personal investment)", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "date": "2005–2015", "round": "Series A–G", "amount": "$1.5B", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Funding", "investors": "Founders Fund, DFJ, Google, Fidelity", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "date": "2019–2024", "round": "Multiple rounds", "amount": "$8.4B+", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Funding", "investors": "Sequoia Capital, a16z, and others", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "date": "2026", "round": "IPO (Nasdaq: SPCX)", "amount": "~$75B", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-price-date.html", "investors": "Public markets; Goldman Sachs-led syndicate (555.6M Class A shares at $135)", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-19" }, { "date": "2026", "round": "Debut investment-grade bonds", "amount": "$25B (senior unsecured notes; priced June 23, upsized from $20B on ~$89B orders)", "source": "https://ir.spacex.com/updates/releases-details/2026/SpaceX-Announces-Pricing-of-25-Billion-Inaugural-Bond-Issuance-2026-33VwNgsx3O/default.aspx", "investors": "Public debt markets; Goldman Sachs-led syndicate (refinances March 2026 bridge loan)", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-28" } ], "fundingTotal": { "label": "$110B", "rounds": 5 }, "products": [ { "name": "Falcon 9", "slug": "spacex-falcon-9", "image": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/products/spacex-falcon9.jpg", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-launch-group-15-27-landing-ocisly", "status": "Active", "metrics": [ { "label": "Payload to LEO", "value": "22,800 kg (expendable)", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-launch-group-15-27-landing-ocisly", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "label": "Payload to GTO", "value": "8,300 kg (expendable)", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-launch-group-15-27-landing-ocisly", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "label": "Height", "value": "69.8 m (229 ft)", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-launch-group-15-27-landing-ocisly", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24" }, { "label": "Total Launches", "value": "702 (Falcon family as of Starlink 15-27 on September 19, 2026: 701 after USSF-259 on September 16, plus one Falcon 9). 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SpaceX's launches page now lists Crew-13 for October 1, 2026 at 11:10 ET from SLC-40, the first posted clock after the August 29 oxidizer-leak slip from September 12.", "url": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/product/spacex-dragon" }, { "name": "Starship", "slug": "spacex-starship", "image": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/products/spacex-starship.jpg", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14", "status": "In Development", "metrics": [ { "label": "Payload to LEO", "value": "100–150 t (fully reusable)", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Specifications", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "label": "Height", "value": "121 m (397 ft)", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Specifications", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "label": "Diameter", "value": "9 m (30 ft)", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Specifications", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "label": "Raptor Engines (booster)", "value": "33 (Raptor 3 on V3)", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Super_Heavy", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "label": "Test Flights Completed", "value": "13 (Flight 13, July 24, 2026, deployed the first operational Starlink V3 satellites)", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starship_launches", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-25" }, { "label": "Successful Booster Catches", "value": "3 (Flights 5, 7, 8)", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Flight_tests", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "label": "Target Cost per Launch", "value": "~$10M (at scale)", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#Economics", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" } ], "description": "Fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch system designed for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. V3 (Block 3) variant with Raptor 3 engines is the production version.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-24", "statusDetail": "Integrated test campaign underway. Flight 13 on July 24, 2026 remains the latest flown test. Ship 41 was stacked on Super Heavy B21 at Pad 2 on September 23, 2026. SpaceX's Flight 14 page still targets as early as Monday September 28 (75-minute window opening 7:15 a.m. CT) pending regulatory approval, as the first planned orbital insertion: about 275 km, roughly six orbits, 26 Starlink V3 satellites, Pacific splashdown west of Chile, Super Heavy Gulf splash, and no tower catch. Two tiles recovered from Ship 40 are planned to fly on Ship 41, the first Starship tile reuse.", "url": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/product/spacex-starship" }, { "name": "Starshield", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/starshield/", "status": "Active", "metrics": [ { "label": "Target Customers", "value": "Government and allied national-security users", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/starshield/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "label": "First public non-US customer", "value": "UK MoD: ~1,000 Starshield terminals; ~13 million pounds spent (FOI, reported Sep 10, 2026)", "source": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/exclusive-uk-deepens-reliance-musks-spacex-spending-nearly-40-million-satellite-services-6376021", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13" }, { "label": "Core Model", "value": "SpaceX launch + Starlink-derived satellite capabilities", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/starshield/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" } ], "description": "Government-focused satellite line built on SpaceX launch systems and Starlink platform technology for secure communications and other national-security missions.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13", "statusDetail": "Active government business line for secure mission sets. The UK became the first country outside the United States to publicly acknowledge buying Starshield after a September 2026 MoD FOI listed about 1,000 Starshield terminals and 13 million pounds spent, with Starshield airtime first bought for Starlink terminals in 2024.", "slug": "spacex-starshield", "image": null, "url": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/product/spacex-starshield" }, { "name": "Colossus 1 (Memphis)", "image": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/products/xai-colossus-supercomputer-complex.jpg", "source": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-to-use-all-of-spacex-xais-colossus-1-data-center-compute/", "status": "Active", "metrics": [ { "label": "NVIDIA GPUs", "value": "220,000+", "source": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-to-use-all-of-spacex-xais-colossus-1-data-center-compute/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "label": "Power Capacity", "value": "300+ MW", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "label": "Anthropic Contract", "value": "$1.25B/month through May 2029", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "label": "Google Contract", "value": "$920M/month from Oct 2026 through Jun 2029 (~110,000 GPUs)", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05" }, { "label": "Disclosed Aggregate Contract Value", "value": "$70B+ (Colossus 1 only: Anthropic + Google. SpaceX's total disclosed AI-compute backlog across both Colossus facilities, including Reflection AI's Colossus 2 deal, is $80B+ - see the company-level Disclosed AI Compute Backlog keyMetric)", "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" } ], "description": "AI supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee acquired in the February 2026 xAI merger. Sold as multi-year compute capacity to external AI customers, with disclosed contracts to Anthropic and Google.", "imageCredit": "xAI, official image (x.ai)", "imageSource": "https://x.ai/colossus", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-05", "statusDetail": "Operating at 300+ MW with 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs. Fully leased to Anthropic ($1.25B/month through May 2029) with additional capacity ramping for Google ($920M/month, ~110,000 GPUs, October 2026 through June 2029). Colossus 2, the separate Blackwell/Blackwell-Ultra-generation follow-on system nearby in Memphis, moved from under-construction to operational on 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, en route to a reported ~1,531 MW in early 2027); it hosts the separate Reflection AI compute deal disclosed in June 2026. Reverified in early September 2026: Colossus 1's own capacity and its Anthropic/Google contract terms are unchanged.", "imageLastUpdated": "2026-10-19", "slug": "spacex-colossus-1-memphis", "url": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/product/spacex-colossus-1-memphis" }, { "name": "Starfall", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/what-is-starfall-a-look-at-spacexs-mysterious-return-capsule", "status": "In Development", "metrics": [ { "label": "Diameter", "value": "3.1 m (10.2 ft)", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/what-is-starfall-a-look-at-spacexs-mysterious-return-capsule", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-20" }, { "label": "Cargo Capacity", "value": "Up to 1,000 kg", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/23/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-reentry-capsule-demo-mission-called-starfall/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-20" }, { "label": "Flights Completed", "value": "1 (debut, June 23, 2026)", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/23/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-reentry-capsule-demo-mission-called-starfall/", "lastUpdated": "2026-08-20" } ], "description": "Disk-shaped, uncrewed reentry capsule for returning cargo - such as pharmaceuticals and other orbital-manufacturing output - from low Earth orbit to Earth. SpaceX's entry into the commercial cargo-return market, competing with players like Varda Space Industries.", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-15", "statusDetail": "Debut flight launched on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral on June 23, 2026, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean about 700 nautical miles off the U.S. West Coast. On September 15, 2026 Luxembourg's Space Cargo said it is Starfall's first known customer, planning to fly a BentoBox payload on Starship's first commercial mission in 2028. The FAA has approved SpaceX for two prototype Starfall reentry tests, with the second still unflown as of August 20, 2026.", "slug": "spacex-starfall", "image": null, "url": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/product/spacex-starfall" } ], "subsidiaries": [ { "slug": "starlink", "name": "Starlink", "relationship": "division", "url": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/company/starlink", "apiUrl": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/api/company/starlink" }, { "slug": "xai", "name": "xAI", "relationship": "division", "url": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/company/xai", "apiUrl": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/api/company/xai" } ], "overview": { "lastUpdated": "2026-10-09", "url": "https://www.ventureatlas.org/company/spacex/overview", "sections": [ { "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "heading": "Why SpaceX matters", "paragraphs": [ "SpaceX is no longer only a launch company. It is a public aerospace, connectivity, and AI firm whose second-quarter 2026 results show three scaled businesses: Space, Connectivity, and AI, with $7.8 billion of combined revenue, up 92% from a year earlier. Wikipedia describes the same stack: Falcon and Starship launch, Starlink broadband, and SpaceXAI products and data centers after the February 2026 xAI acquisition.", "The operating thesis is still vertical integration. Cheap, high-cadence Falcon flights made a megaconstellation viable; constellation cash funds Starship; Starship is the only vehicle that can loft the much larger Starlink V3 satellites SpaceX needs for the next step in bandwidth. Flight 14 showed that chain working in one mission: first orbit, then 26 operational V3s." ] }, { "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX", "heading": "From near-bankruptcy to a public company", "paragraphs": [ "Elon Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies in 2002. After three Falcon 1 failures that nearly ended the firm, the fourth flight reached orbit in 2008, and a NASA cargo contract kept the company alive. Falcon 9 first flew in 2010, Dragon delivered cargo to the ISS in 2012, an orbital-class booster landed in 2015, and Crew Dragon flew NASA astronauts in 2020.", "In February 2026 SpaceX absorbed xAI in an all-stock deal. It priced its IPO at $135 a share on June 11, 2026, implying a $1.77 trillion valuation, and Class A shares began trading on Nasdaq as SPCX on June 12. The company later reported that the offering closed on June 15 with 638,888,888 Class A shares and about $85.7 billion of net proceeds. Wikipedia says Musk controls about 84% of voting power through super-voting stock." ] }, { "source": "https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/starships-first-orbital-launch-gives-lift-to-spacexs-next-gen-starlinks/", "heading": "Falcon cadence and Starship's first orbit", "paragraphs": [ "Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy remain the cash launch franchise. Wikipedia counted 706 Falcon-family flights as of October 2, 2026, with 703 full successes. SpaceX's Q2 release said the company flew 78 launches in the first half of 2026 and, after quarter-end, completed Starship Flight 13 in July, which deployed 20 production V3 satellites on a suborbital path that then reentered.", "Starship Flight 14 lifted off from Starbase on September 28, 2026 and became the first to reach a stable orbit, at about 276 kilometers. After one of Ship 41's six Raptors shut down on ascent, the vehicle still performed an insertion burn, deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and then deorbited after about three hours instead of the planned nearly 10-hour, six-orbit profile. Super Heavy made a controlled Gulf of Mexico splashdown. The ship completed a landing burn in the northern Pacific and then tipped over and broke apart, unlike the intact Flight 13 splashdown. The FAA told Ars it would not require a mishap investigation." ] }, { "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026052515/earningsreleaseq22608042.htm", "heading": "Starlink, Starshield, and direct-to-cell", "paragraphs": [ "Connectivity is the profitable core. In Q2 2026 it generated $4.291 billion of revenue, up 66% year over year, with 12.0 million Starlink subscribers at quarter-end and $66 monthly ARPU. The same release said SpaceX had been awarded more than $6 billion in multi-year U.S. government contracts for Starshield.", "V3 is the capacity step-change, and it is gated on Starship: each satellite is too large for Falcon 9 and is designed, SpaceX says, for about 1 Tbps, ten times the Falcon-launched generation. On October 6, 2026 the FCC granted in part a 15,000-satellite NGSO direct-to-device constellation (call sign S00735), with 50% of authorized stations due in assigned orbits by October 7, 2032 and the rest by October 7, 2035. U.S. operations in the EchoStar-related 2 GHz and AWS bands remain conditioned on closing Step Two of that spectrum assignment." ] }, { "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026052515/earningsreleaseq22608042.htm", "heading": "AI compute and software", "paragraphs": [ "The AI segment reported $2.561 billion of Q2 revenue and 1.4 GW of nameplate compute, with $14.1 billion of Cloud Service Agreements signed in the quarter and $15.8 billion of AI capital expenditure. Wikipedia, citing the June filing, says Anthropic contracted Colossus 1 at $1.25 billion a month through 2029 and Google agreed to pay $920 million a month from October 2026 through June 2029. Those are contract figures, not proof that every GPU was delivered on schedule.", "On August 14, 2026 SpaceX closed its all-stock purchase of Anysphere (Cursor) at a $60.0 billion implied equity value, issuing 389,289,254 Class A shares. The Q2 release had already flagged that agreement and, after quarter-end, the July Grok 4.5 model trained alongside Cursor." ] }, { "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026052515/earningsreleaseq22608042.htm", "heading": "Financials after the IPO", "paragraphs": [ "Q2 2026 revenue was $7.814 billion. The company still posted a $541 million net loss, while adjusted EBITDA was $3.538 billion. Connectivity earned $1.656 billion of operating income; Space lost $542 million as Starship research continued; AI lost $1.257 billion from operations even after $1.146 billion of AI adjusted EBITDA. Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities were $100 billion, with $47.5 billion of backlog. On June 26 SpaceX closed a $25 billion inaugural investment-grade bond issue.", "The June 11 pricing at $135 implied a $1.77 trillion valuation on Wikipedia's account of the offering. The later earnings release is the source for the larger share count and $85.7 billion of net proceeds. Multi-class stock leaves Musk in voting control of a now-public company." ] }, { "source": "https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/starships-first-orbital-launch-gives-lift-to-spacexs-next-gen-starlinks/", "heading": "What to watch", "paragraphs": [ "The next Starship gates are a longer-duration orbit, a tower catch of the ship, and an in-orbit propellant-transfer demonstration that Artemis lunar-lander work depends on. Ars reported that an FAA air-traffic schedule pointed to a possible October Flight 15 from Starbase, that a Kennedy Space Center Starship pad is being activated for a possible 2026 Florida flight, and that Raptor 3 has had engine issues on all three V3 flights so far.", "On the commercial side, watch whether Google's October 2026 compute term actually bills at the contracted monthly rate, whether EchoStar Step Two closes so the new D2D license can be used in those bands, and what Q3 results show after AI capital expenditure of $15.8 billion in a single quarter. 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The company said it was the booster's 26th flight, after USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145, Transporter-18 and 22 Starlink missions counting this flight, and that the first stage landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship. Spaceflight Now reported the same liftoff clock time and a landing; its writeup still described satellite release as upcoming and labeled 3:25 a.m. EDT as 0825 UTC, which is an hour later than that Eastern time.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-15-16", "name": "www.spacex.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/27/west-coast-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-27-starlink-satellites/", "name": "spaceflightnow.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-26-easyjet-starlink", "date": "2026-10-27", "publishedAt": "2026-10-27T01:08:51+00:00", "title": "easyJet will fit Starlink across its Airbus fleet", "summary": "On Oct. 26, 2026 easyJet said it will offer inflight Wi-Fi for the first time by installing Starlink on its A320, A320neo and A321neo fleet from the first half of 2027, with the rollout expected to finish by early 2028. SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said in the easyJet release that Starlink would be onboard. easyJet did not disclose the contract value or whether the connection will be free.", "companySlugs": [ "starlink", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.easyjet.com/en/news/airline/story/easyjet-to-offer-connectivity-onboard-for-the-first-time-with-starlink-the-fastest-wi-fi-in-the-sky-with-rapid-roll-out-coming-from-2027", "name": "www.easyjet.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-23-spacex-starlink-15-15", "date": "2026-10-26", "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T17:25:37+00:00", "title": "Falcon 9 launches 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg", "summary": "On Oct. 23, 2026, at 3:48 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 East. SpaceX said the first stage, on its 36th flight, landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You. Space.com reported the same liftoff time, satellite count, and landing ship. SpaceX's mission timeline lists satellite deployment about 62 minutes after liftoff.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-15-15", "name": "www.spacex.com" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-starlink-group-15-15-b1063-ocisly", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-24-spacex-apollo-gpu-lease", "date": "2026-10-26", "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T17:25:37+00:00", "title": "SpaceX signs a GPU lease commitment of about $40 billion", "summary": "On Oct. 24, 2026, SpaceX entered a binding commitment letter for a master finance lease with an Apollo-managed entity that would buy GPU pods and related equipment and lease them to SpaceX. The Oct. 26 8-K says expected aggregate principal payments are about $40 billion, each schedule would run about five to five and one-quarter years, and the interest rate is still to be set. The master lease is not closed. SpaceX expects closing before year-end 2026 and lease schedules in the first half of 2027, when the GPUs are delivered.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000110465926118614/tm2628247d1_8k.htm", "name": "www.sec.gov" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-20-tesla-spacex-merger-committees", "date": "2026-10-21", "publishedAt": "2026-10-21T01:10:16+00:00", "title": "Tesla and SpaceX form committees to study a merger", "summary": "On Oct. 20, 2026, during SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call, Elon Musk said the Tesla and SpaceX boards had each formed special committees of independent directors to discuss a merger. He said the committees were formed at shareholders' request, that he is not a member of either one, and that they have not agreed on terms. He also said a Tesla approval would need 50 percent of all outstanding shares, and that a deal is not guaranteed.", "companySlugs": [ "tesla", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-spacex-tesla-merger-rcna604685", "name": "www.nbcnews.com" }, { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/science/1014984/spacex-tesla-merger-elon-musk-special-committees", "name": "www.theverge.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-20-spacex-q3-results", "date": "2026-10-20", "publishedAt": "2026-10-20T21:08:32+00:00", "title": "SpaceX reports Q3 revenue of $14.6 billion and a $4.4 billion profit", "summary": "SpaceX reported unaudited third-quarter revenue of $14.575 billion, up 161% from a year earlier, and net income of $4.404 billion, compared with a $1.054 billion loss a year earlier. Super Intelligence revenue was $7.560 billion with $431 million of operating income, and nameplate compute reached 1.7 GW. Starlink consumer subscribers were 13.6 million, and Connectivity revenue was $5.248 billion.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink", "xai" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026066482/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "name": "www.sec.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026066482/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "name": "www.sec.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/20/spacex-spcx-earnings-live-updates-q3-2026html.html", "name": "www.cnbc.com" }, { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026066482/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "name": "www.sec.gov" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-20-spacex-bandwagon-5", "date": "2026-10-20", "publishedAt": "2026-10-20T13:09:29+00:00", "title": "Falcon 9 launches Bandwagon-5 with a second Starfall capsule", "summary": "Falcon 9 lifted off at 7:04 a.m. EDT (11:04 UTC) on Oct. 20 from Cape Canaveral with 32 payloads, including SpaceX's second Starfall reentry capsule and Varda's W-7. Space.com reported the booster, on its 19th flight, landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas. Spaceflight Now's prelaunch manifest listed four ICEYE satellites; the accounts opened here did not confirm that every payload had separated.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "varda", "iceye" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starfall-return-capsule-launch-bandwagon-5-rideshare-mission", "name": "www.space.com" }, { "url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-second-starfall-reentry-vehicle/", "name": "spacenews.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/18/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-starfall-reentry-capsule-31-customer-payloads-on-bandwagon-5-rideshare-mission/", "name": "spaceflightnow.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-15-spacex-crs-35-docking", "date": "2026-10-18", "publishedAt": "2026-10-18T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "CRS-35 Dragon docks with the station's final roll-out arrays", "summary": "NASA said SpaceX's CRS-35 Cargo Dragon docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port at 10:27 a.m. EDT on Oct. 15, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of cargo and the station's final pair of roll-out solar arrays. SpaceX's mission page gives the same docking time after the Oct. 13 launch at 6:33 a.m. EDT. NASA said the arrays will be installed later this fall and that Dragon is scheduled to stay until mid-November.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/10/15/spacex-dragon-docks-with-science-supplies-and-roll-out-solar-arrays/", "name": "www.nasa.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/crs35/", "name": "www.spacex.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-15-tesla-roadster-reveal", "date": "2026-10-16", "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Tesla shows a thruster Roadster and targets 2028", "summary": "On Oct. 15, 2026 Tesla revealed a redesigned Roadster at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas, and Elon Musk said production would begin in 2028 without naming a purchase price. Tesla's page lists a two-seat road-ready trim, a rear-thruster trim it says reaches 0-60 mph in under one second, and an invite-only Rocket trim that the page says can fly and is not approved for public road use. The U.S. reservation page lists $5,000 due now and $45,000 within 10 days, TechCrunch reported a $250,000 thruster-trim reservation, and CNBC said $50,000 deposits had reopened in recent weeks.", "companySlugs": [ "tesla", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/tesla-reveals-spacex-powered-roadster-that-flies-and-falls-with-style/", "name": "techcrunch.com" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/tesla-roadster-reveal-what-to-know-about-the-delayed-ev.html", "name": "www.cnbc.com" }, { "url": "https://www.tesla.com/roadster", "name": "www.tesla.com" }, { "url": "https://www.tesla.com/en_US/roadster/reserve", "name": "www.tesla.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-15-spacex-ussf-481", "date": "2026-10-16", "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Falcon 9 launches classified USSF-481 from Vandenberg", "summary": "On Oct. 15, 2026 at 5:01 p.m. PDT, which was 0001 UTC on Oct. 16, Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg SLC-4E on the U.S. Space Force USSF-481 mission. Spaceflight Now and Space.com report that booster B1081, on its 28th flight, landed on Of Course I Still Love You about eight minutes later. The payload was not disclosed. Spaceflight Now says public notices also call the mission TH-2 and that hazard warnings suggest a low Earth orbit near 80 degrees inclination.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/15/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-classified-payload-for-u-s-space-force/", "name": "spaceflightnow.com" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-space-force-launch-ussf-481-vandenberg", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-14-faa-starbase-starship-peis", "date": "2026-10-16", "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "FAA opens a review of 456 Starship launches a year", "summary": "On Oct. 14, 2026, the FAA opened public scoping for a programmatic environmental impact statement on SpaceX's proposal to increase Starship-Super Heavy operations at Starbase, Texas. The notice compares the current authorization of 25 launches and 50 landings a year with a study ceiling of 456 launches and 912 landings, and a first phase of 100 launches and 200 landings. Comments are due Nov. 30, 2026, and the notice does not approve a higher cadence.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-14/html/2026-20963.htm", "name": "www.govinfo.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-wants-to-launch-starship-more-than-450-times-per-year-from-south-texas", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-13-spacex-crs-35", "date": "2026-10-13", "publishedAt": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Falcon 9 launches NASA CRS-35 cargo to the station", "summary": "SpaceX launched NASA's 35th cargo resupply mission at 6:33 a.m. EDT on Oct. 13 from SLC-40, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies, science, and the final pair of ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays. Falcon 9 booster B1096 landed at Landing Zone 40 on its eighth flight. Cargo Dragon is scheduled to dock to the Harmony space-facing port at 11 a.m. EDT on Oct. 15.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-science-cargo-launch-on-35th-spacex-resupply-mission-to-station/", "name": "www.nasa.gov" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/13/spacex-launches-nasa-science-and-cargo-to-the-international-space-station/", "name": "spaceflightnow.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-13-spacex-starlink-15-25", "date": "2026-10-13", "publishedAt": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Falcon 9 launches 27 Starlink satellites after a three-week gap", "summary": "SpaceX said Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg SLC-4E at 5:28 p.m. PT on Oct. 12, 2026 (00:28 UTC on Oct. 13) with 27 Starlink satellites, the first Falcon 9 Starlink flight since Sept. 19. Booster B1088 landed on Of Course I Still Love You on its 20th flight. SpaceX lists satellite deployment at about T+1:01:58, and Space.com reported that SpaceX said the 27 satellites reached orbit 62 minutes after liftoff.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-15-25", "name": "www.spacex.com" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-falcon-9-starlink-mission-for-1st-time-in-more-than-3-weeks-photo", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-10-spacex-sda-t1tl-a", "date": "2026-10-10", "publishedAt": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX lofts SDA fourth Tranche 1 plane", "summary": "SpaceX launched Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SLC-4E at 12:39 a.m. PT on Oct. 10, delivering 21 Northrop Grumman-built Space Development Agency Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites. SDA said the flight was the fourth of nine Tranche 1 missions and brought on-orbit T1 vehicles to 84 after an Oct. 5 abort. The booster, on its sixth flight, landed at LZ-4; Northrop said the satellites deployed and that a second 21-satellite plane is planned.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/sda-t1tl-a", "name": "www.spacex.com" }, { "url": "https://www.sda.mil/pae-for-missile-warning-and-tracking-and-space-development-agency-successfully-deliver-fourth-orbital-plane-of-tranche-1-satellites-to-orbit/", "name": "www.sda.mil" }, { "url": "https://news.northropgrumman.com/satellites/northrop-grumman-deploys-first-wave-of-satellites-for-sdas-proliferated-warfighter-space-architecture", "name": "news.northropgrumman.com" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-data-transport-satellites-military-proliferated-architecture", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-08-spacex-grain-800mhz", "date": "2026-10-09", "publishedAt": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX agrees to buy Grain's nationwide 800 MHz licenses", "summary": "On Oct. 8, 2026 Grain Management announced a definitive agreement for SpaceX to acquire Grain's nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio, subject to FCC approval and other closing conditions. SpaceX's FCC public-interest statement the same day describes a Purchase and Sale Agreement transferring up to 14 MHz of paired 800 MHz licenses from Grain affiliate NewLevel to Starlink Spectrum Holdings for a hybrid terrestrial and satellite Starlink Mobile coverage layer. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the license transfer is not yet granted.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://graingp.com/grain-management-announces-definitive-agreement-to-sell-nationwide-800-mhz-spectrum-portfolio-to-spacex/", "name": "graingp.com" }, { "url": "https://sxcontent9668.azureedge.us/cms-assets/assets/FCC_Narrative_10_8_26_f63e78e026.pdf", "name": "sxcontent9668.azureedge.us" }, { "url": "https://www.satellitetoday.com/connectivity/2026/10/08/spacex-moves-to-acquire-nationwide-low-band-spectrum-for-starlink-mobile/", "name": "www.satellitetoday.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-08-spacex-crew-12-splashdown", "date": "2026-10-08", "publishedAt": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX Crew-12 splashes down off Los Angeles", "summary": "NASA said SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon Freedom splashed down at 8:34 a.m. PDT on Oct. 8, 2026 in the Pacific off Los Angeles, returning Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. NASA put the ISS stay at 237 days, more than 100 million miles, and more than 3,792 orbits after a Feb. 13 launch. SpaceX recovery teams retrieved the spacecraft; NASA set a crew news conference for Oct. 15 at Johnson Space Center. NBC Los Angeles independently reported splashdown about 8:35 a.m. PT. NASA news-release pages timed out on direct fetch; facts follow NASA search retrieval plus the opened NBC report.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-12-splashes-down-sets-briefing-to-discuss-mission/", "name": "www.nasa.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/10/08/nasas-spacex-crew-12-dragon-splashes-down-at-1134-a-m-edt/", "name": "www.nasa.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/spacex-crew-capsule-splashdown-pacific-ocean/3953013/", "name": "www.nbclosangeles.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-06-spacex-fcc-d2d-15000", "date": "2026-10-08", "publishedAt": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "FCC authorizes 15,000 SpaceX direct-to-device satellites", "summary": "On Oct. 6, 2026 the FCC granted in part SpaceX authority to deploy and operate 15,000 NGSO satellites (call sign S00735, DA-26-1078) for U.S. supplemental coverage from space and mobile satellite service, plus MSS and direct-to-cell outside the United States, with FSS backhaul and TT&C. SpaceX must launch, place, and operate 50% of the authorized stations by Oct. 7, 2032 and complete the constellation by Oct. 7, 2035. Commercial use of EchoStar-assigned AWS-3, AWS-H, and 2 GHz MSS bands remains conditioned on Step Two of the SpaceX-EchoStar transaction. The FCC also waived the terrestrial-lease rule for specified AWS-3 and AWS-H SCS operations, with conditions.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-1078A1.pdf", "name": "docs.fcc.gov" }, { "url": "https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-1078A1.pdf", "name": "docs.fcc.gov" }, { "url": "https://broadbandbreakfast.com/fcc-approves-spacex-request-for-15-000-direct-to-device-satellites/", "name": "broadbandbreakfast.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-07-tesla-spacex-terafab-operator", "date": "2026-10-07", "publishedAt": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will run Terafab, not TSMC", "summary": "Elon Musk said on Oct. 7 that Tesla and SpaceX will build and run the planned Terafab AI chip complex in Texas, writing that TSMC might sublease part of the site but nothing more than that. Reuters reported the posts after Musk called weekend TSMC talks just discussions. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan told Bloomberg the same day that Intel remains involved as a partner on the project, which is planned around Intel's 14A process. TSMC and Intel did not immediately comment to Reuters. A TSMC sublease is not a signed agreement.", "companySlugs": [ "tesla", "spacex", "tsmc" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://ae.marketscreener.com/news/musk-says-tsmc-won-t-run-terafab-ai-chip-complex-ce785dd9d180f622", "name": "ae.marketscreener.com" }, { "url": "https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/07/musk-terafab-chip-fab-tsmc/", "name": "teslanorth.com" }, { "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/musk-rejects-rumors-of-tsmc-takeover-of-terafab-intel-reaffirms-14a-node-deal-as-musk-floats-cleanroom-sublease", "name": "www.tomshardware.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-06-spacex-nvidia-40b-financing", "date": "2026-10-07", "publishedAt": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX in talks to raise $40B for Nvidia GPUs", "summary": "The Financial Times, Reuters, and CNBC reported SpaceX is in talks to raise about $40 billion to buy Nvidia AI chips, with Apollo expected to lead and PIMCO among lenders discussed. Reuters said the package would combine about $10 billion in bank loans with $30 billion in investment-grade debt. CNBC, citing a person familiar with the talks, said discussions remain preliminary, key lenders are not finalized, and GPUs would likely be used as collateral. SpaceX, Nvidia, Apollo, and PIMCO have not confirmed a signed transaction.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "nvidia" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/spacex-nvidia-chips-apollo-financing.html", "name": "www.cnbc.com" }, { "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/spacex-seeks-40-billion-financing-led-apollo-buy-nvidia-chips-ft-reports-6437756", "name": "www.channelnewsasia.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-30-pentagon-project-meridian", "date": "2026-10-03", "publishedAt": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Pentagon taps Musk and Luckey to map future warfare", "summary": "On Sept. 30, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commissioned Project Meridian, directing Pentagon chief technology officer Emil Michael to study future battlefields and submit recommendations by Jan. 28, 2027. In the State of the Force speech that day, Hegseth named Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as co-leads. The signed memorandum does not name those co-leads; Politico later reported Pentagon officials warning that Musk's and Luckey's companies hold large Defense contracts.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "anduril" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://media.defense.gov/2026/Sep/30/2004009287/-1/-1/1/COMMISSIONING-OF-PROJECT-MERIDIAN.PDF", "name": "media.defense.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/10/01/hegseth-musk-gingrich-project-meridian/", "name": "www.snopes.com" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/hegseth-musk-warfare-taskforce", "name": "www.theguardian.com" }, { "url": "https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/02/pentagon-hegseth-musk-palmer-commission-01104908", "name": "www.politico.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-01-spacex-nrol-97", "date": "2026-10-02", "publishedAt": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Falcon Heavy flies first NRO mission as NROL-97", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted the classified NROL-97 payload from Kennedy Space Center LC-39A at 11:54 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026, the National Reconnaissance Office's first Falcon Heavy flight after 22 Falcon 9 missions and its first NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 launch. Spaceflight Now and NASASpaceFlight said side boosters B1072 and B1104 landed at LZ-1 and LZ-2 while new center core B1106 was expended toward a high-energy orbit. Payload identity and upper-stage deploy status were not disclosed; the flight was SpaceX's third Falcon launch of the day and, Spaceflight Now said, the first day it landed four boosters.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/01/falcon-heavy-to-fly-its-first-mission-for-u-s-spy-satellite-agency/", "name": "spaceflightnow.com" }, { "url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/nrol97-launch/", "name": "www.nasaspaceflight.com" }, { "url": "https://starlust.org/watch-space-xs-falcon-heavy-rocket-successfully-launches-nrol-97-its-first-classified-mission-for-u-s-government/", "name": "starlust.org" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-01-spacex-crew-13-docking", "date": "2026-10-02", "publishedAt": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX Crew-13 docks at ISS in fastest US launch-to-docking", "summary": "SpaceX Dragon Grace docked to the ISS Harmony module's forward port at 7:05 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026, 7 hours and 55 minutes after Crew-13's 11:10 a.m. EDT launch. NASA called it the fastest launch-to-docking of a U.S. spacecraft in ISS history. The crew is NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov; Space.com said they will stay about six months and that Crew-12 could return as soon as Oct. 5.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/10/01/dragon-docks-bringing-spacex-crew-13-to-station/", "name": "www.nasa.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-crew-13-astronaut-mission-docks-iss-fastest-trip-us-spacecraft", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-01-spacex-transporter-18", "date": "2026-10-01", "publishedAt": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX lofts Google Suncatcher TPU satellite on Transporter-18", "summary": "A Falcon 9 lifted Transporter-18 from Vandenberg SLC-4E at 2:32 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026, carrying 130 payloads including Google's Project Suncatcher pathfinder, which tests TPUs in orbit on a Planet Labs satellite. Space.com said the first stage landed at LZ-4 about 7.5 minutes later on its 25th flight, with payload deployments due about 54.5 minutes after liftoff. This was SpaceX's second launch of the day after Crew-13; NROL-97 on Falcon Heavy was still scheduled for 11:53 p.m. EDT.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "google-deepmind" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/spacex-google-project-suncatcher-ai-satellite-transporter-18-mission", "name": "www.space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/space/google-ai-space-project-suncatcher-b3059796.html", "name": "www.independent.co.uk" }, { "url": "https://qz.com/google-ai-chips-orbit-spacex-transporter-18-100126", "name": "qz.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-10-01-spacex-crew-13-launch", "date": "2026-10-01", "publishedAt": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX launches Crew-13 to the ISS on Dragon Grace", "summary": "A Falcon 9 lifted off at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 1 from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov toward the International Space Station aboard Dragon Grace. NASA said the spacecraft reached orbit, separated from the second stage and opened its nosecone, with docking at Harmony's space-facing port targeted for 7 p.m. EDT as the fastest launch-to-docking in ISS history. Space.com reported booster B1101 landed at Landing Zone 40 about 7 minutes 40 seconds after liftoff on its third flight; docking had not occurred at the time of this report.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/10/01/nasas-spacex-crew-13-reaches-orbit-news-conference-at-1245-p-m-edt/", "name": "www.nasa.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/spacex-crew-13-astronaut-mission-iss-launch", "name": "www.space.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/10/01/live-coverage-nasa-spacex-to-launch-next-crewed-mission-to-the-international-space-station/", "name": "spaceflightnow.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-28-spacex-starship-flight-14-orbit", "date": "2026-09-28", "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Starship reaches orbit and deploys 26 Starlink V3s", "summary": "SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 lifted off from Starbase at about 8:48 a.m. EDT on September 28 and reached orbit for the first time after one upper-stage engine shut down and a brief no-orbit call was reversed. Ship 41 deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites that Musk said were operating nominally, the first V3s intended to stay in the constellation rather than the July 24 suborbital release. Controllers cut the planned six-orbit, nearly 10-hour flight to about three hours; Super Heavy splashed in the Gulf of Mexico and the ship reentered for a Pacific splashdown north of Hawaii, where AP said it then tipped over and erupted in flames.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-megarocket-flight-14-orbital-launch-success", "name": "www.space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.wsls.com/tech/2026/09/28/spacexs-supersized-starship-launches-toward-orbit-for-the-first-time/", "name": "www.wsls.com" }, { "url": "https://theprint.in/world/spacexs-starship-makes-orbital-debut-deploying-starlinks-before-early-ending/3056099/", "name": "theprint.in" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-26-spacex-starship-f14-license", "date": "2026-09-28", "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "FAA licenses Starship Flight 14 for Monday orbital try", "summary": "The FAA said on September 27 that it issued license authorization on September 26 for SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Flight 14 launch and reentry operations, clearing the remaining named regulatory gate for the vehicle's first planned orbital attempt. SpaceX is targeting a 75-minute window opening at 7:15 a.m. Central on September 28 from Pad 2 at Starbase, with Ship 41, Booster 21 and 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and ocean splashdowns rather than tower catches. The attempt had not yet lifted off as of this check; backup beach closures are posted for September 29 and 30.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://aviationweek.com/space/launch-vehicles-propulsion/faa-clears-spacex-starship-14-flight", "name": "aviationweek.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/28/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-first-starlink-v3-satellites-to-orbit-on-starship/", "name": "spaceflightnow.com" }, { "url": "https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-flight-14-launch/", "name": "www.teslarati.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-26-spacex-ussf-385", "date": "2026-09-26", "publishedAt": "2026-09-26T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX launches classified USSF-385 from Vandenberg", "summary": "SpaceX said a Falcon 9 launched the classified USSF-385 mission for the U.S. Space Force from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:00 a.m. PT on September 26. The company said the first-stage booster was on its 10th flight, after NROL-95 and eight Starlink missions, and then landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific. Space.com reported the payload remains classified and that this was SpaceX's third national-security Falcon 9 flight of the month, after USSF-153 on September 10 and USSF-259 on September 16.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spacex.com/launches/ussf385", "name": "www.spacex.com" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-classified-mystery-mission-for-us-space-force-from-california", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-24-google-suncatcher-transporter-18", "date": "2026-09-25", "publishedAt": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Google books Suncatcher TPU satellite on SpaceX Transporter-18", "summary": "Google said on September 24 that Project Suncatcher's first prototype satellite, built with Planet, will fly on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare to test how Trillium TPUs handle launch vibration, radiation and vacuum cooling. Ground tests at UC Davis showed the chips can survive a radiation dose greater than a five-year mission, and a 2027 follow-on will put two satellites in orbit to test high-bandwidth laser links. Space.com reported Transporter-18 is currently scheduled for October 1; Google described the flight as coming next week and did not itself publish that date. Planet is untracked.", "companySlugs": [ "google-deepmind", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/", "name": "blog.google" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/spacex-launching-prototype-google-ai-satellite-next-week", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-23-starlink-poland-ground-station-fire", "date": "2026-09-25", "publishedAt": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Poland investigates arson at a Starlink ground station", "summary": "A fire broke out on the evening of September 23 at a Starlink satellite communications ground station in Wola Krobowska, south of Warsaw. Poland's National Prosecutor's Office opened a case on September 24 treating the fire as arson and a suspected act of sabotage on behalf of a foreign intelligence service, with a stated aim of disrupting Starlink connectivity in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe; no charges have been filed. State operator Exatel said it subleases the land and provides data transmission, that none of its own infrastructure was destroyed, and that its services were unaffected. SpaceX had not issued a public comment in the sources checked.", "companySlugs": [ "starlink", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gov.pl/web/prokuratura-krajowa/wszczecie-sledztwa-w-sprawie-pozaru-stacji-starlink-w-woli-krobowskiej", "name": "www.gov.pl" }, { "url": "https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/24/starlink-ground-station-in-poland-hit-by-fire-in-suspected-arson-attack/", "name": "notesfrompoland.com" }, { "url": "https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/polska/7,198072,33041986,pozar-stacji-starlink-na-mazowszu-polski-operator-wydal-oswiadczenie.html", "name": "wiadomosci.gazeta.pl" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-23-spacex-starship-f14-stacked", "date": "2026-09-24", "publishedAt": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX stacks Starship Flight 14 for first orbital try", "summary": "SpaceX stacked Ship 41 on Super Heavy booster B21 at Starbase Pad 2 in the early hours of September 23, assembling the 124-meter Flight 14 vehicle for Starship's first planned orbital attempt. The company said opportunistic full-stack testing, including a wet dress rehearsal, was planned for September 24, with launch still targeted as early as September 28 pending FAA approval. The roughly 10-hour mission is planned to deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites, the first V3s intended to stay in orbit.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/23/spacex-stack-starship-and-super-heavy-for-first-orbital-flight/", "name": "spaceflightnow.com" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-stacks-massive-starship-rocket-ahead-of-1st-orbital-launch-attempt-video", "name": "www.space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/news/live/spacex-starship-flight-14-live-updates-sept-24-2026-starship-first-orbital-launch-attempt", "name": "www.space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-19-nasa-spacex-crew-15-17", "date": "2026-09-19", "publishedAt": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "NASA awards SpaceX $946 million for three crew flights", "summary": "NASA said on September 18 that it awarded SpaceX a firm-fixed-price Commercial Crew Transportation Capability modification covering Crew-15, Crew-16, and Crew-17 to the International Space Station, valued at $946 million for the three missions and related services. The change lifts SpaceX to 17 CCtCap missions and $5.92 billion on the contract, with a period of performance through 2030, covering ground, launch, in-orbit, return and recovery, cargo, and a docked lifeboat role. The sole-source award follows a May notice of intent; NASA has not named crews or exact launch dates, and said the modification does not stop later purchases of additional transportation services.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/commercial-crew/nasa-awards-spacex-three-crew-flights-to-space-station/", "name": "NASA" }, { "url": "https://spacenews.com/nasa-adds-three-iss-missions-to-spacex-crew-dragon-contract/", "name": "SpaceNews" }, { "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/aef33f01ebe845f0a0c8c40f41d89db9/view", "name": "SAM.gov" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-18-starship-flight-14-slips-september-28", "date": "2026-09-18", "publishedAt": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX slips Starship Flight 14 to September 28", "summary": "SpaceX said on September 17 that it is now targeting Starship Flight 14 as early as Monday, September 28, pending regulatory approval, a roughly six-day slip from the September 22 date it had posted on the mission page only two days earlier. The company gave no reason for the move, and it has not published a revised mission clock or a new FAA airspace window alongside the target. Flight 14 is the program's first planned orbital insertion, carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites to about 275 km for roughly six orbits before a Pacific splashdown west of Chile, and CFO Bret Johnsen has described it as Starship's first revenue-generating flight.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.investors.com/news/spacex-starship-flight-14-launch-postponed-elon-musk-spcx-stock/", "name": "Investor's Business Daily" }, { "url": "https://www.rgvbusinessjournal.com/news/17/09/2026/spacex-reschedules-starship-flight-14-orbital-launch/", "name": "RGV Business Journal" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-18-spacex-fcc-section-214-starlink-mobile", "date": "2026-09-18", "publishedAt": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "FCC clears SpaceX to carry Starlink Mobile traffic across borders", "summary": "The Federal Communications Commission on September 17 granted SpaceX global facilities-based and resale authority under Section 214 to provide telecommunications services between the United States and foreign markets, an application the company said explicitly was intended to support Starlink Mobile service offerings. SpaceX filed an amended application on August 25 and the FCC accepted it for streamlined review on August 28; the grant lets SpaceX act as the carrier of record for traffic crossing international boundaries but does not award additional spectrum or by itself authorize operations in any foreign country. It is the latest in a run of regulatory steps behind the satellite-to-phone business, after the roughly $17 billion EchoStar spectrum purchase approved in May, with CFO Bret Johnsen targeting full 5G-quality service in the first half of 2028 on next-generation satellites launching from 2027.", "companySlugs": [ "starlink", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://au.pcmag.com/wireless-carriers/119971/fcc-opens-door-to-starlink-mobiles-global-roaming-ambitions", "name": "PCMag" }, { "url": "https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/asts-retail-sentiment-1-year-low-spacex-turns-up-heat-global-mobile-race/cZtulTMRB33", "name": "Stocktwits News" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-17-rocket-lab-iridium-fcc-comment-window", "date": "2026-09-17", "publishedAt": "2026-09-17T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "FCC opens comment window on Rocket Lab's Iridium takeover", "summary": "The Federal Communications Commission accepted Rocket Lab and Iridium's license-transfer applications for filing on September 16, starting the public-comment phase of its review with comments and petitions due October 15, oppositions due October 30 and replies due November 9. The step is procedural rather than an approval, but it clears the first regulatory gate ahead of the Iridium stockholder vote on September 24, and it opens a docket in which SpaceX has already asked the commission to scrutinize Iridium's conduct toward rival satellite operators while saying it does not oppose the deal itself. Rocket Lab said at World Space Business Week in Paris that the roughly $8 billion acquisition remains on track to close by the second quarter of 2027.", "companySlugs": [ "rocketlab", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spacenews.com/rocket-lab-on-track-to-complete-iridium-acquisition/", "name": "SpaceNews" }, { "url": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/09/17/rocket-lab-jumps-6-as-fcc-clears-first-hurdle-on-iridium-deal-iridium-communications-barely-budges/", "name": "24/7 Wall St." } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-16-spacex-starship-f14-orbit", "date": "2026-09-16", "publishedAt": "2026-09-16T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX sets Starship Flight 14 for first orbit", "summary": "SpaceX is targeting September 22, 2026 for Starship Flight 14, the vehicle's first planned orbital mission, with a 75-minute window opening at 7:15 a.m. Central Time from Starbase. The Ship is expected to fly at about 275 km, complete roughly six orbits over nearly 10 hours, deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and splash down in the Pacific west of Chile. Super Heavy is planned to splash in the Gulf of Mexico about seven minutes after liftoff, with no tower catch of either stage.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-next-starship-launch-will-lift-off-on-sept-22-and-aim-to-reach-orbit-for-1st-time", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://english.news.cn/20260916/01bab13ca3e44702838d9062039fc471/c.html", "name": "Xinhua" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-15-spacex-starfall-space-cargo", "date": "2026-09-15", "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Space Cargo becomes first known Starfall customer for 2028", "summary": "Space Cargo CEO Nicolas Gaume told Reuters on September 15 that the Luxembourg mission integrator is the first known customer for SpaceX's Starfall cargo-return capsule. Space Cargo plans to fly its BentoBox system inside a Starfall capsule on Starship's first commercial mission, targeted for 2028, carrying up to about 1 ton of customer payloads, nearly half in life sciences. SpaceX did not comment; Starfall flew a demo capsule on Falcon 9 in June 2026.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacexs-first-starfall-customer-is-european-mission-integrator-space-cargo-2026-09-15/", "name": "Reuters" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-14-spacex-o3b-mpower-launch", "date": "2026-09-14", "publishedAt": "2026-09-14T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "SpaceX flies 700th Falcon mission for SES", "summary": "A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's SLC-40 at 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 UTC) on September 13 carrying SES's final three O3b mPOWER satellites (F11-F13). Space.com counted it as SpaceX's 105th Falcon 9 and 107th orbital mission of 2026, and Spaceflight Now as the 700th Falcon-family launch (687 Falcon 9 and 13 Falcon Heavy). Booster B1080 flew for the 29th time and landed on A Shortfall of Gravitas, the 661st Falcon booster landing; the Boeing-built satellites deployed around 8,000 km in medium Earth orbit and SES says they will enter service by mid-2027, completing a 13-satellite constellation.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/sess-final-three-o3b-mpower-satellites-successfully-launched", "name": "SES / Business Wire" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-3-telecom-satellites-to-orbit-on-700th-falcon-mission-of-all-time-video", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/09/13/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-final-3-o3b-mpower-satellites-for-ses/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-13-uk-starshield-spend", "date": "2026-09-13", "publishedAt": "2026-09-13T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "UK spends nearly $40 million on SpaceX satellite links", "summary": "Britain is the first country outside the United States to publicly acknowledge buying SpaceX's classified Starshield service, after a Ministry of Defence FOI response showed roughly 1,000 Starshield terminals and 500 Starlink terminals in inventory. Reuters reported about 13 million pounds ($17.6 million) spent on Starshield and 16.5 million pounds on Starlink, or nearly $40 million combined, with Starshield airtime first bought for Starlink terminals in 2024 and dedicated Starshield hardware arriving last year. SpaceX did not comment; New Zealand is trialling Starshield.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/exclusive-uk-deepens-reliance-musks-spacex-spending-nearly-40-million-satellite-services-6376021", "name": "Reuters / CNA" }, { "url": "https://srnnews.com/exclusive-uk-deepens-reliance-on-musks-spacex-spending-nearly-40-million-on-satellite-services/", "name": "Reuters" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-09-10-spacex-ussf-153-vandenberg", "date": "2026-09-10", "publishedAt": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-09-06T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-09-06T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-09-03T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-30T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-30T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-29T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-26T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-23T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-22T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-16T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-16T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-08T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-08T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-06T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-02T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-08-02T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-30T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-29T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-29T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-27T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-23T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-23T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-19T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-18T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-17T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-15T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-14T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-13T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-11T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-10T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-07-03T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-28T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-21T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-15T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-14T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-11T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-06T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00", "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", "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T00:00:00+00:00", "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" } ] } ] } }