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Following the February 2026 xAI merger, SpaceX also operates the Memphis Colossus 1 supercomputer as an AI hyperscaler - disclosing roughly $70B+ of contracted compute revenue across an Anthropic deal ($1.25B/month through May 2029) and a Google deal ($920M/month from October 2026 through June 2029). SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, 2026, debuting on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX at its fixed $135-per-share price for a roughly $1.77 trillion valuation and about $75B in proceeds, with Elon Musk retaining ~82% voting control, though SPCX has since traded below its IPO price (~$115 in late July 2026). 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SpaceX reports its first earnings as a public company on August 4, 2026.", "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/spacex-finally-files-ipo-prospectus-reveals-revenue-is-up-but-losses-are-too/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, "operatingStatus": { "status": "Operational", "detail": "Fully operational launch, spacecraft, broadband, and government-satellite business. SpaceX remains the world's leading launch provider (84+ Falcon family launches YTD by mid-July 2026), runs Starlink and Starshield alongside its Falcon and Dragon programs, and flew the first Starship V3 on May 22, 2026 (Flight 12, which the FAA classified a mishap). The FAA closed that investigation on July 13, 2026, clearing Starship's return to flight; after an aborted July 16 countdown, Flight 13 succeeded on July 24, 2026 - the second V3 flight and the program's cleanest to date - lighting all 33 Raptor engines at liftoff, deploying the first 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites (SpaceX confirmed contact with all 20), and making the softest ship splashdown yet, though only about five of the booster's planned landing-burn engines relit. Following the February 2026 xAI merger, SpaceX also operates the Memphis Colossus supercomputers as an AI hyperscaler, with disclosed multi-year compute contracts worth $70B+ to Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI. SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, 2026, debuting on Nasdaq under SPCX at $135/share for a ~$1.77T valuation and ~$75B in proceeds; SPCX has continued sliding since, setting a new all-time low of $107.01 intraday on July 28, 2026 before closing at $116.49, roughly 48% below its June 16 closing high. SpaceX reports its first earnings as a public company on August 4, 2026, which triggers an August 6 lock-up expiration releasing roughly 911.5M shares (~$116B) - the largest such unlock in market history.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/spacex-spcx-earnings-lock-up-expiration.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, "revenueStreams": [ { "name": "Starlink Subscriptions", "description": "Recurring broadband subscriptions for residential, roaming, maritime, aviation, enterprise, and government users on the Starlink network - SpaceX's largest and only profitable segment, generating ~$11.4B of connectivity revenue in 2025 ($3.3B in Q1 2026).", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/spacex-starlink-growth-profit-nasdaq-ipo.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "Starlink Mobile (Direct-to-Cell)", "description": "Direct-to-cell service for messaging, voice, data, and IoT connectivity, currently sold through carrier partners (T-Mobile, Rogers, KDDI, One NZ, Optus, Telstra, Salt, Entel Peru, Entel Chile, Kyivstar, Virgin Media O2). With the FCC's May 2026 approval of its ~$17B EchoStar mid-band spectrum purchase, SpaceX is moving toward selling Starlink Mobile directly to US consumers and competing with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.", "source": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fcc-approves-echostars-40bn-spectrum-sales-to-att-spacex/", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-29" }, { "name": "NASA Crew & Cargo Missions", "description": "Dragon missions for NASA crew rotation, cargo resupply, and private astronaut flights to the International Space Station.", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "Commercial Launch Services", "description": "Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches for commercial satellite operators, including rideshare missions at $275K for 50 kg to SSO.", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/rideshare", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "name": "National Security Launches", "description": "Launch services for U.S. Space Force and NRO missions, including Phase 3 Lane 2 national security launch awards, plus the growing Golden Dome missile-defense book (a $4.16B Space Force AMTI satellite award in May 2026 lifted SpaceX's Golden Dome total to roughly $6.45B).", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/spacex-wins-4point16-billion-space-force-contract-for-threat-detection-satellites.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "Starshield Government Services", "description": "Government-focused satellite services built on SpaceX launch and Starlink platform capabilities for secure communications and other national-security missions.", "source": "https://www.spacex.com/starshield/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-19" }, { "name": "AI Compute Services (Colossus)", "description": "Multi-year GPU compute capacity sold to external AI customers from the Memphis Colossus supercomputers (Colossus 1 acquired in the February 2026 xAI merger; Colossus 2 being built out). 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).", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-06" } ], "keyMetrics": [ { "label": "Falcon Booster Landings", "value": "~638 (cumulative Falcon-family landing count as of B1080's July 14, 2026 landing; separately, that mission also marked the 600th reflight of a previously-flown booster)", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-15-14-b1093-vsfb-ocisly-10-45-b1080-ccsfs-asog", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, { "label": "Valuation", "value": "SPCX hit a new all-time low of $107.01 intraday on July 28, 2026 before closing at $116.49 - down ~14% from its $135 IPO price and about 48% below its $225.64 June 16 closing high; SpaceX reports its first earnings as a public company on August 4, 2026, which triggers an August 6 lock-up expiration releasing roughly 911.5M shares (~$116B), the largest such unlock in market history", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/spacex-spcx-earnings-lock-up-expiration.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, { "label": "2026 Falcon Launches", "value": "84+ Falcon family launches YTD as of July 16, 2026, the latest being the July 16 SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer national-security mission (21 satellites) from Vandenberg; a July 13 Starlink mission marked the 600th reflight of a flight-proven Falcon booster. Gwynne Shotwell has guided to ~140–145 Falcon 9 flights for the full year", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-launch-sda-titl-3-military-satellites", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17" }, { "label": "2025 Launches", "value": "165 Falcon missions (annual record; 167 orbital flights incl. Starship)", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-shatters-its-rocket-launch-record-yet-again-167-orbital-flights-in-2025", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17" }, { "label": "Starlink Customers", "value": "12M+ (crossed 12M on June 4, 2026; ~27,700/day adds); SpaceX targets ~25M active users by year-end 2026", "source": "https://www.techspot.com/news/112669-starlink-crosses-12-million-active-users-spacex-outlines.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-15" }, { "label": "Disclosed AI Compute Backlog", "value": "$80B+ 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)", "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/07/19/spacex-ai-compute-renting-business-google-anthropic-pentagon-deals-revenue-valuation-elon-musk-colossus-data-centers/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" } ], "nextSteps": [ { "title": "Demonstrate Starship V3 booster catch and orbital propellant transfer", "description": "Flight 13 succeeded on July 24, 2026 - the program's first operational Starlink V3 deployment (20 satellites) and controlled splashdowns of both stages - clearing SpaceX to attack the harder V3 milestones. On July 25, 2026 Elon Musk said Flight 14 will attempt the first launch-tower catch of the upper stage itself - as SpaceX already does with the Super Heavy booster - which would also make it Starship's first orbital flight, pending a review of Flight 13 data. Beyond the ship catch, the roadmap runs through catching the Super Heavy booster at the tower (the Flight 13 booster relit only about five of its planned landing-burn engines on an offshore splashdown), flying Starlink V3 on a rapid cadence, and demonstrating an orbital ship-to-ship propellant transfer - the in-space refueling demo that FCC filings and the Artemis HLS contract both hinge on.", "targetDate": "H2 2026 - 2027", "source": "https://satnews.com/2026/07/25/spacex-targets-first-starship-upper-stage-tower-catch-for-flight-14/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, { "title": "First public earnings report and record lock-up unlock", "description": "SpaceX reports its first-ever earnings as a public company after market close on August 4, 2026, which triggers an August 6 lock-up expiration releasing roughly 911.5M shares (~$116B) - the largest such unlock in market history - with further tranches on August 31, September 10, September 25, October 10, and October 25. SPCX has fallen well below its $135 IPO price since debuting (a new all-time low of $107.01 was set July 28, 2026), so the market's reaction to both the earnings print and the subsequent supply of newly tradable shares is a near-term swing factor for the stock.", "targetDate": "August 2026", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/spacex-spcx-earnings-lock-up-expiration.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, { "title": "Artemis lunar lander (HLS)", "description": "NASA is working with SpaceX to develop Starship HLS for Artemis III and Artemis IV. The next major milestone is the required uncrewed demonstration mission before Artemis III, followed by integration into the revised Artemis surface-landing cadence that now centers the next crewed lunar landing on Artemis IV in early 2028. With the FAA having closed the Flight 12 mishap investigation on July 13, 2026, progress now hinges on SpaceX demonstrating reliable Starship V3 flights and the in-orbit propellant-transfer capability the lunar lander depends on.", "targetDate": "2026-2028", "source": "https://www.nasa.gov/reference/human-landing-systems/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-15" }, { "title": "Mars cargo architecture", "description": "Flight 13's July 24, 2026 success - the first operational Starlink V3 deployment - proved Starship V3 can reach space and deploy payloads, but the architecture for regular Mars cargo missions still depends on unproven capabilities: Super Heavy booster catch and rapid reuse, in-space propellant transfer between two Starships, and long-duration ship operations. The S-1 explicitly anchors the long-term mission of 'making life multiplanetary' on this architecture.", "targetDate": "Late 2020s+", "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/spacex-ipo-filing-s1-total-addressable-market-make-life-multiplanetary/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-26" } ], "milestoneHistory": [], "timeline": [ { "year": 2002, "title": "Founded", "description": "Elon Musk founds SpaceX with the goal of reducing space transportation costs.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Founding", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2008, "title": "Falcon 1 reaches orbit", "description": "First privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to reach Earth orbit.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2010, "title": "Falcon 9 first flight", "description": "Successful maiden flight of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2012, "title": "Dragon docks with ISS", "description": "First commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2015, "title": "First booster landing", "description": "Falcon 9 first stage lands successfully after an orbital mission - a historic first.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_flight_20", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2020, "title": "Crew Dragon Demo-2", "description": "First crewed orbital mission by a private company, sending NASA astronauts to the ISS.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2023, "title": "Starship test flights begin", "description": "Starship/Super Heavy conducts first integrated flight tests from Starbase, Texas.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2024, "title": "Starship booster catch & Polaris Dawn", "description": "Super Heavy booster caught by launch tower 'chopstick' arms (Flight 5). Polaris Dawn mission reaches 1,408 km altitude - highest crewed orbit since Apollo - and conducts first commercial EVA.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Dawn", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2025, "title": "Record 165 launches & Starlink Direct-to-Cell", "description": "SpaceX sets annual launch record with 165 Falcon missions. Starlink direct-to-cell SMS service goes live in the US and New Zealand via T-Mobile and One NZ. Starship completes 7 more test flights (Flights 7–11).", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-shatters-its-rocket-launch-record-yet-again-167-orbital-flights-in-2025", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2025, "title": "Secondary sale values SpaceX at about $800B", "description": "A secondary share sale values SpaceX at roughly $800B, underscoring the scale of its launch and Starlink businesses ahead of public-market preparations.", "source": "https://www.business-standard.com/markets/ipo/spacex-files-for-ipo-confidentially-eyes-usd-1-75-trillion-valuation-report-126040101452_1.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-29" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "xAI merger and public IPO filing", "description": "SpaceX absorbs xAI in an all-stock deal in February 2026, then on May 20, 2026 files a public S-1 to list on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX at an implied valuation near $1.75T, with pricing expected June 11. The filing discloses $18.67B in 2025 consolidated revenue, a $2.59B operating loss, and $6.58B adjusted EBITDA.", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "lastUpdated": "2026-05-23" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "First Starship V3 flight (Flight 12)", "description": "On May 22, 2026 the first Starship V3 launches from Starbase Pad 2. The upper stage completes a full-duration suborbital flight, deploys 22 Starlink simulators, and splashes down in the Indian Ocean, while the Super Heavy booster is lost during its return burn.", "source": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-first-starship-v3/", "lastUpdated": "2026-05-23" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FAA classifies Flight 12 a mishap and grounds Starship V3", "description": "On May 27, 2026 the FAA formally classifies Starship Flight 12 as a mishap and requires SpaceX to complete an investigation - overseen by the agency - before Flight 13 can fly. The Super Heavy booster had failed to ignite all planned engines during its boostback maneuver, cutting the burn short and ending in the loss of the booster.", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/", "lastUpdated": "2026-05-30" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$4.16B Space Force Golden Dome AMTI award", "description": "On May 29, 2026 the U.S. Space Force awards SpaceX a $4.16B contract to build a low-Earth-orbit constellation of airborne moving target indicator (AMTI) satellites for the Golden Dome homeland missile-defense initiative. The single award exceeds the combined prototype contracts of every other Golden Dome bidder and lifts SpaceX's total Golden Dome book to roughly $6.45B.", "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/spacex-wins-4-billion-contract-for-us-golden-dome-satellites", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-02" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq in largest IPO ever", "description": "On June 12, 2026 SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX, selling 555.6M Class A shares at the fixed $135 price to raise roughly $75B at a ~$1.77T valuation - the largest IPO in history, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's 2019 record. Reported total demand exceeded $250B with an unusually large retail allocation of up to 30% of the offering, and Elon Musk retained ~82% voting control through a multi-class share structure.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-price-date.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-12" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "IPO priced at $135 for $1.77T valuation", "description": "On June 3, 2026 SpaceX sets a fixed $135-per-share price for its Nasdaq IPO, targeting a $1.77T valuation and ~$75B in proceeds - the largest public offering in history. The roadshow opens June 4 with 555.6M shares on offer, Goldman Sachs leading a syndicate that includes Morgan Stanley, BofA, Citi and JPMorgan, trading expected to start under ticker SPCX on June 12, and Elon Musk retaining ~82% voting control.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/spacex-ipo-stock-price-roadshow-musk.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-05" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$1.25B/month Anthropic Colossus 1 compute deal", "description": "On May 6, 2026 SpaceX and Anthropic announce a multi-year compute agreement under which Anthropic will use the full capacity of SpaceX's Memphis Colossus 1 data center - more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300 MW - for $1.25B per month through May 2029. The deal is the first major external customer for SpaceX's post-xAI-merger AI hyperscaler business.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-06" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "$30B Google Colossus 1 compute deal", "description": "An amended SpaceX S-1 disclosed June 5, 2026 reveals a multi-year cloud-services agreement with Alphabet's Google under which Google will pay $920M/month from October 2026 through June 2029 - about $30B in aggregate - for ~110,000 NVIDIA GPUs plus CPUs, memory, and related infrastructure routed through Memphis Colossus 1. With 90-day mutual termination rights after Dec. 31, 2026, the pact lifts SpaceX's disclosed AI-compute backlog above $70B alongside the May Anthropic deal, days before the Nasdaq SPCX debut.", "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-06" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starlink crosses 12M active customers", "description": "On June 4, 2026 SpaceX announces Starlink has surpassed 12 million active customers across more than 160 countries and territories, with ~27,700 new customers added per day on average over the prior ~53 days. The constellation now exceeds 10,400 working satellites in orbit, and SpaceX uses the milestone to outline V3 satellite plans that target greater-than-100x available bandwidth at a lower 350 km operating altitude.", "source": "https://www.techspot.com/news/112669-starlink-crosses-12-million-active-users-spacex-outlines.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-07" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Falcon 9 booster sets 35-flight orbital reuse record", "description": "On June 8, 2026 - days after SpaceX's Nasdaq debut - Falcon 9 booster B1067 launched and landed for a record 35th time on the Starlink 10-35 mission from Cape Canaveral, the most flights ever by an orbital-class rocket stage. The milestone puts Falcon 9 within reach of the 39-flight reuse mark set by NASA's Space Shuttle orbiters, which SpaceX intends to surpass as it certifies boosters for up to 40 flights.", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-10-35-b1067-ccsfs-asog", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Up-to-$6.3B Reflection AI Colossus 2 compute deal", "description": "On June 22, 2026 SpaceX agreed a multi-year cloud-compute deal worth up to $6.3B under which open-source AI startup Reflection will rent capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, paying about $150M per month from July 1, 2026 through 2029 for access to NVIDIA GB300 chips. Reflection - focused on open-source models for government and national-security customers - joins Anthropic, Google and Cursor as a disclosed Colossus customer, deepening SpaceX's commercialization of its post-xAI-merger AI hyperscaler business.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Debut investment-grade bond sale priced at $25B", "description": "On June 22, 2026 - ten days after its record IPO - SpaceX launched its first-ever investment-grade bond offering, and on June 23 priced it at $25B of senior unsecured notes, upsized from an initial $20B target after demand topped roughly $89B. The five-tranche deal (coupons from 5.350% on notes due 2031 to 6.650% on notes due 2056) settled June 26 and largely refinances a $20B bridge loan taken on in March. Offering documents disclosed roughly $100.8B in cash and equivalents as of June 19, 2026 and investment-grade ratings from Moody's, Fitch and S&P; SPCX shares fell more than 10% on the day the sale launched and over 20% across five sessions as investors weighed the pace of capital raising.", "source": "https://ir.spacex.com/updates/releases-details/2026/SpaceX-Announces-Pricing-of-25-Billion-Inaugural-Bond-Issuance-2026-33VwNgsx3O/default.aspx", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-28" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "FCC clears ~$17B EchoStar spectrum buy; Shotwell unveils Starlink Mobile carrier push", "description": "In May 2026 the FCC approved SpaceX's ~$17B acquisition of EchoStar spectrum (part of a broader ~$40B sale that also gave AT&T 50 MHz), handing SpaceX 65 MHz of exclusive-use, contiguous nationwide mid-band spectrum (AWS-4, AWS-3, H-Block in the 1.9–2.2 GHz range) - its first dedicated direct-to-device spectrum, with licenses fully transferring by ~November 2027. On June 26, 2026 President Gwynne Shotwell told IPO-roadshow investors SpaceX plans to take Starlink Mobile directly to US consumers and compete head-on with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, potentially building its own terrestrial network.", "source": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fcc-approves-echostars-40bn-spectrum-sales-to-att-spacex/", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-29" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starfall cargo reentry capsule debut", "description": "On June 23, 2026 SpaceX launched the debut flight of Starfall, a disk-shaped cargo reentry capsule, on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. About 3.1 meters in diameter and able to carry roughly 1,000 kg, the vehicle is designed to return research and orbital-manufacturing payloads - such as pharmaceuticals - to Earth, splashing down about 700 nautical miles off the U.S. West Coast. The mission marks SpaceX's entry into the commercial cargo-return market and is the first of at least two planned Starfall demonstrations.", "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/23/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-reentry-capsule-demo-mission-called-starfall/", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-24" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "SpaceX added to the Nasdaq-100 index", "description": "SpaceX joined the Nasdaq-100 index effective July 7, 2026 - only 15 trading days after its record June 12 IPO - under Nasdaq's new fast-track rule that admits mega-listings on their 15th trading day. The inclusion forces the more than $800B of funds tracking the index to buy SPCX, though its initial weighting starts small (an estimated 0.5%-0.7%) because less than 5% of its shares trade freely. It makes SpaceX one of the first launch companies in a major U.S. large-cap benchmark.", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/spacex-added-to-nasdaq-100.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-13" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 13 aborted seconds before liftoff", "description": "On July 16, 2026 - SpaceX's first Starship launch attempt since its June Nasdaq debut - the Flight 13 countdown triggered an automatic abort when at least four of Super Heavy's 33 Raptor engines failed to ignite during the startup sequence. The flight, carrying the first 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites, was scrubbed at Starbase. Elon Musk said two Raptor engines would be removed and replaced 'to be confident of a good flight,' with the next attempt most likely early the following week.", "source": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-aborts-starship-flight-13-launch-attempt/", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17" }, { "year": 2026, "title": "Starship Flight 13 succeeds; first operational Starlink V3 deploy", "description": "On July 24, 2026 SpaceX flew Starship Flight 13 from Starbase, Texas, the second flight of the Version 3 vehicle and its cleanest mission to date. Super Heavy lit all 33 Raptor 3 engines at liftoff and made a controlled offshore splashdown, though only about five of its planned landing-burn engines relit and it came down faster than intended. The upper stage reached space, deployed the program's first 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites - SpaceX later confirmed contact with all 20 - and performed the program's softest ship splashdown yet in the Indian Ocean. Each V3 satellite is designed for roughly 1 Tbps of downlink, and a full 60-satellite Starship load can add about 60 Tbps, some 20 times a Falcon 9 batch of V2 Mini satellites.", "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-makes-the-softest-splashdown-ever-after-launching-next-gen-starlink-satellites-in-flight-13-test-video", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-25" } ], "funding": [ { "round": "Founding", "date": "2002", "amount": "$100M", "investors": "Elon Musk (personal investment)", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Funding", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "round": "Series A–G", "date": "2005–2015", "amount": "$1.5B", "investors": "Founders Fund, DFJ, Google, Fidelity", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Funding", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "round": "Multiple rounds", "date": "2019–2024", "amount": "$8.4B+", "investors": "Sequoia Capital, a16z, and others", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Funding", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-20" }, { "round": "IPO (Nasdaq: SPCX)", "date": "2026", "amount": "~$75B", "investors": "Public markets; Goldman Sachs-led syndicate (555.6M Class A shares at $135)", "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-price-date.html", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-12" }, { "round": "Debut investment-grade bonds", "date": "2026", "amount": "$25B (senior unsecured notes; priced June 23, upsized from $20B on ~$89B orders)", "investors": "Public debt markets; Goldman Sachs-led syndicate (refinances March 2026 bridge loan)", "source": "https://ir.spacex.com/updates/releases-details/2026/SpaceX-Announces-Pricing-of-25-Billion-Inaugural-Bond-Issuance-2026-33VwNgsx3O/default.aspx", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-28" } ], "fundingTotal": { "label": "$110B", "rounds": 5 }, "products": [ { "name": "Falcon 9", "description": "Partially reusable two-stage medium-lift launch vehicle. 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It is the world's dominant launch provider, the operator of the only large-scale low-Earth-orbit broadband network, a top-tier U.S. national-security contractor, and - as of 2026 - an AI hyperscaler renting out one of the world's largest GPU clusters. No competitor matches the breadth of that stack, and very few match SpaceX in any single layer of it.", "The throughline is radical vertical integration in service of a single thesis: drive the cost of access to space down by orders of magnitude through reusability, then use that cost advantage to build businesses - Starlink, Starshield, and eventually Mars settlement - that were previously uneconomic. Each layer funds the next. Cheap, high-cadence launch makes a megaconstellation viable; constellation revenue funds Starship; Starship is the vehicle Elon Musk built the company to fly to Mars." ], "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/spacex-ipo-filing-s1-total-addressable-market-make-life-multiplanetary/" }, { "heading": "From near-bankruptcy to orbit", "paragraphs": [ "Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies in 2002, pouring roughly $100M of his PayPal proceeds into a company most of the industry expected to fail. The first three Falcon 1 flights did fail; the company was nearly out of money when the fourth reached orbit in 2008, making Falcon 1 the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so and earning SpaceX a NASA cargo contract that kept it alive.", "What followed was a methodical climb up the capability ladder: Falcon 9's maiden flight in 2010, Dragon's first cargo delivery to the International Space Station in 2012, the first orbital-class booster landing in 2015, and the first crewed flight by a private company in 2020. Each milestone converted a one-time stunt into a routine operation, and by the mid-2020s SpaceX was launching more mass to orbit than every other operator and country on the planet combined." ], "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" }, { "heading": "The reusability flywheel", "paragraphs": [ "Falcon 9 is the engine of the whole company. By recovering and reflying first stages, SpaceX turned what had been the most expensive disposable part of a rocket into reusable infrastructure. The result is a cadence no one else approaches: 165 orbital launches in 2025, an annual record, and in June 2026 booster B1067 flew and landed for a 35th time - the most flights ever logged by an orbital-class stage, closing in on the Space Shuttle orbiter reuse record.", "Starship is the bet that extends reuse to the entire vehicle. The fully reusable super-heavy-lift system is designed to carry 100-150 tonnes to orbit at a target cost a fraction of any rocket flying today, and to refuel in orbit for missions to the Moon and Mars. The program graduated to its production V3 design in 2026, but it remains the company's hardest open problem: the first V3 flight in May 2026 completed its suborbital arc and deployed Starlink simulators, yet lost the Super Heavy booster on its return burn - a setback that grounded the vehicle." ], "source": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-10-35-b1067-ccsfs-asog" }, { "heading": "Starlink: the cash engine", "paragraphs": [ "Starlink turned SpaceX's launch advantage into a consumer and enterprise business with recurring revenue. The constellation now exceeds 10,400 working satellites - by far the largest ever flown - and crossed 12 million active customers across more than 160 countries in June 2026, adding on the order of 27,000 subscribers a day. The connectivity business generates the majority of SpaceX's space revenue, roughly $11B in 2025, and is the financial foundation beneath the far costlier Starship program.", "The newest frontier is direct-to-cell, which lets ordinary phones connect to satellites for messaging and, increasingly, data - a service SpaceX is rolling out with carrier partners across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The strategic prize is large enough that incumbent US carriers have begun banding together to respond, validating the threat. SpaceX's plan to deploy larger V3 Starlink satellites promising more than 100x the available bandwidth is, however, gated on returning Starship to flight, since only Starship can loft them at scale." ], "source": "https://www.techspot.com/news/112669-starlink-crosses-12-million-active-users-spacex-outlines.html" }, { "heading": "The xAI merger and the AI-compute pivot", "paragraphs": [ "In February 2026 SpaceX absorbed Musk's AI venture xAI in an all-stock deal, a move that reshaped the company's financial profile overnight. The transaction brought in the Memphis 'Colossus 1' supercomputer - more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs drawing over 300 MW - which SpaceX now operates as a third-party AI cloud, renting capacity to frontier labs.", "The economics are striking. Anthropic contracted the full capacity of Colossus 1 for $1.25B per month through May 2029, and an amended IPO prospectus disclosed a Google agreement worth roughly $920M per month for about 110,000 GPUs from late 2026 through mid-2029. Together these lifted SpaceX's disclosed AI-compute backlog above $70B - a business that did not exist a year earlier and that now sits alongside launch and Starlink as a third revenue pillar, even as it complicates the company's once space-pure investment story." ], "source": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal" }, { "heading": "Financials and the record IPO", "paragraphs": [ "SpaceX's May 2026 S-1 offered the first audited look inside the company: $18.67B in consolidated 2025 revenue (including xAI), a $2.59B operating loss, and $6.58B in adjusted EBITDA. The losses reflect the enormous capital sink of Starship and Starlink build-out; the cash flows from Starlink subscriptions, launch services, and now compute contracts are what make those investments financeable.", "On June 12, 2026 SpaceX debuted on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, selling about 555.6 million Class A shares at a fixed $135 to raise roughly $75B at a ~$1.77T valuation - the largest IPO ever, eclipsing Saudi Aramco. Demand was extraordinary: the stock jumped about 19% on its first day, ran to an intraday high above $225 within days, and Musk retained roughly 82% voting control through a multi-class structure, leaving him firmly in command of a now-public company." ], "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-spcx-live-updates.html" }, { "heading": "What to watch next", "paragraphs": [ "The single most important near-term variable is Starship. The FAA classified the May 2026 Flight 12 booster failure a mishap and grounded the vehicle pending a SpaceX-led investigation focused on the new Raptor 3 engines; hardware for Flight 13 is staged at Starbase, with industry reporting pointing to a roughly July-August 2026 return window. Almost everything strategic - V3 Starlink deployment, the NASA Artemis lunar-lander demonstration, in-orbit propellant transfer, and ultimately Mars cargo flights - waits on Starship flying reliably again.", "Beyond Starship, watch the defense ramp (a $4.16B Space Force award for Golden Dome missile-defense satellites pushed SpaceX's book on that program past $6B), the direct-to-cell competition with US carriers, and how public-market scrutiny reshapes a company long accustomed to operating without quarterly disclosure. The IPO gave SpaceX a balance sheet to match its ambitions; the open question is whether Starship can convert that capital into the multiplanetary architecture the S-1 names as its reason for being." ], "source": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm", "name": "SpaceX Form S-1 (SEC EDGAR)" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-spcx-live-updates.html", "name": "CNBC - SPCX IPO debut" }, { "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/112669-starlink-crosses-12-million-active-users-spacex-outlines.html", "name": "TechSpot - Starlink crosses 12M customers" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal", "name": "Bloomberg - Google–SpaceX compute deal" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/", "name": "Spaceflight Now - FAA Starship mishap investigation" }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/spacex-finally-files-ipo-prospectus-reveals-revenue-is-up-but-losses-are-too/", "name": "Fortune - SpaceX IPO prospectus financials" } ] }, "news": [ { "slug": "2026-07-29-faa-environmental-rule-waiver-commercial-launch", "date": "2026-07-29", "title": "FAA moves to waive environmental reviews for rocket launches", "summary": "US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced on July 28 a proposed FAA rule that would let the agency waive requirements under 13 federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and parts of the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, when licensing commercial launches and reentries. The proposal, aimed at speeding up approvals for companies including SpaceX and Blue Origin, keeps core public-safety and national-security reviews in place and is subject to a 30-day public comment period.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "blueorigin" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/liftoff-trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-announces-major-move-streamline", "name": "US Department of Transportation" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/space-launches-faa-environmental-spacex-blue-origin-sean-duffy.html", "name": "CNBC" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-27-spacex-starship-flight-14-tower-catch-plan", "date": "2026-07-27", "title": "Musk targets first Starship ship catch on next flight", "summary": "SpaceX plans to attempt the first-ever launch-tower catch of Starship's upper stage on Flight 14, CEO Elon Musk said following the July 24 success of Flight 13, pending review of that flight's data for any anomalies. Catching the ship with the pad's mechanical arms, as SpaceX already does with the Super Heavy booster, is a major step toward the rapid full reusability the program is built around, and would make Flight 14 Starship's first orbital launch. SpaceX has not yet set a date for the flight.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://satnews.com/2026/07/25/spacex-targets-first-starship-upper-stage-tower-catch-for-flight-14/", "name": "SatNews" }, { "url": "https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-catch-starship-launch-14-elon-musk/", "name": "Teslarati" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-25-spacex-starship-flight13-success-starlink-v3", "date": "2026-07-25", "title": "Starship Flight 13 succeeds, deploys first Starlink V3 satellites", "summary": "SpaceX launched its 13th Starship test flight on July 24 from Starbase, Texas, and for the first time deployed 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites, the largest payload the vehicle has ever carried and one too big to fly on Falcon 9. Both stages returned under control: the Super Heavy booster made an offshore splashdown, though only about five of its planned landing-burn engines lit and it came down faster than hoped, while the upper stage performed what SpaceX called its softest splashdown yet in the Indian Ocean, and the company made contact with all 20 satellites. It was the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle and SpaceX's cleanest Starship mission to date, a milestone for scaling Starlink capacity since a full 60-satellite Starship load can add roughly 60 terabits per second, about 20 times a Falcon 9 batch of V2 Mini satellites.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "starlink" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-makes-the-softest-splashdown-ever-after-launching-next-gen-starlink-satellites-in-flight-13-test-video", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/24/science/live-news/spacex-starship-flight-13-launch", "name": "CNN" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-23-spacex-stock-record-low-trillion-erased", "date": "2026-07-23", "title": "SpaceX stock hits record low, erasing $1 trillion from peak", "summary": "SpaceX shares (SPCX) slid to a fresh low, closing at $115.26 on July 22, down about 6.7% on the day and roughly 25% over the past month. The retreat has wiped out around $1 trillion in market value since the company's mid-June peak, extending a rapid unwind of the euphoria that followed its record roughly $86 billion June debut. Investors have turned cautious ahead of an early-August lockup expiration tied to the company's first quarterly report, and amid a broader cooling in richly valued AI and tech names.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/07/22/spacex-just-erased-1-trillion-in-value-heres-why-the-worst-could-be-yet-to-come/", "name": "24/7 Wall St." }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-stock-drops-low-loses-112803895.html", "name": "Yahoo Finance" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-23-xai-spacex-engineering-data-grok", "date": "2026-07-23", "title": "Musk to train next Grok model on SpaceX engineering data", "summary": "Elon Musk said on July 21 that SpaceX's corpus of engineering data will be fed into the supplemental training of xAI's next major Grok model, a roughly two-trillion-parameter run, excluding anything restricted under U.S. arms-export (ITAR) rules. Musk said the aerospace data would dramatically improve Grok's engineering capabilities, extending his pattern of routing data from his companies into xAI after Tesla's driving data and X's conversational data. Grok 4.5, the current flagship model, launched on July 8.", "companySlugs": [ "xai", "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2079446276299465185", "name": "Elon Musk (X)" }, { "url": "https://beincrypto.com/spacex-engineering-data-grok-training/", "name": "BeInCrypto" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-20-spacex-starship-flight13-targets-july-23", "date": "2026-07-20", "title": "SpaceX targets July 23 for Starship Flight 13 after engine swap", "summary": "SpaceX is now targeting July 23 for its 13th Starship test flight after an interim July 20 window slipped, following the July 16 launch abort that halted the countdown at T-0 when four of Super Heavy's 33 Raptor engines failed to ignite. Engineers removed and replaced two Raptors on the booster before the next attempt. The mission - the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle - aims to deploy 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time on a suborbital trajectory, six of them carrying cameras to inspect the ship's heat-shield tiles before reentry.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-aborts-starship-flight-13-launch-attempt/", "name": "SpaceNews" }, { "url": "https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/starship-flight-13/", "name": "Space Launch Schedule" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-20-spacex-pentagon-ai-compute-talks", "date": "2026-07-20", "title": "SpaceX in talks to supply Pentagon with AI computing power", "summary": "SpaceX is negotiating a multibillion-dollar arrangement to lease AI data-center computing capacity to the U.S. Department of Defense, the Wall Street Journal reported July 17. Rather than selling data centers outright, SpaceX would rent out compute for a limited period to run AI models across Pentagon operations - a move that would push the company into direct competition with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for military cloud work. The talks are ongoing and could still fall apart; they follow SpaceX's earlier compute deals, including a roughly $45 billion multiyear contract with Anthropic and about $920 million a month from Google.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2026-07-17/musks-spacex-in-talks-to-provide-computing-power-to-the-pentagon-wsj-reports", "name": "Reuters (via U.S. News)" }, { "url": "https://cybernews.com/ai-news/spacex-pentagon-ai-deal/", "name": "Cybernews" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-19-spacex-shares-fall-below-ipo-price", "date": "2026-07-19", "title": "SpaceX shares fall below $135 IPO price for first time", "summary": "SpaceX stock (SPCX) closed below its $135 IPO price for the first time on July 16, ending down about 3% near $131 amid a broader tech selloff, after a fourth straight day of declines had left it just above the line a day earlier. The slide leaves shares roughly 42% below the record high above $225 they hit within days of the company's record ~$86 billion June 12 debut, and the retreat continued into the following week. The rapid unwind of the post-listing rally has poured cold water on this year's IPO market, dragging a key gauge of 2026 debuts lower with it.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/spacex-spcx-stock-ipo-price.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/spacex-post-listing-collapse-threatens-ipo-market-s-ai-euphoria", "name": "Bloomberg" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-18-spacex-sda-tranche1-york-satellites", "date": "2026-07-18", "title": "SpaceX launches 21 SDA data-relay satellites; network hits halfway", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 21 York Space Systems satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 16, the third batch for the Pentagon's Tranche 1 Transport Layer and the agency's first launch after a roughly nine-month pause to work through technical and operational issues. The additions bring the proliferated low-Earth-orbit data-relay constellation to 63 of a planned 126 satellites - about half its intended size. The booster, on its fourth flight, landed on the droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Pacific.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-launch-sda-titl-3-military-satellites", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.airandspaceforces.com/space-development-agency-launches-21-data-transport-satellites-on-spacex-rocket/", "name": "Air & Space Forces Magazine" }, { "url": "https://breakingdefense.com/2026/07/sda-resumes-data-relay-satellite-launch-following-tech-fixes/", "name": "Breaking Defense" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-17-spacex-starship-flight13-abort-t0", "date": "2026-07-17", "title": "SpaceX aborts Starship Flight 13 at engine ignition", "summary": "SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight was aborted at T-0 on July 16 just as the Super Heavy booster began lighting its 33 Raptor engines, when four of them failed to ignite and the vehicle's flight computer automatically halted the countdown. The mission - the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle - was set to attempt the first deployment of Starlink V3 satellites on a suborbital trajectory. Elon Musk said engineers will remove and replace two Raptor engines on the booster before the next attempt, which he said is most likely early the following week.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-aborts-starship-flight-13-launch-attempt/", "name": "SpaceNews" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/16/live-coverage-spacex-to-deploy-first-starlink-v3-satellites-on-suborbital-starship-super-heavy-flight/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-15-spacex-faa-closes-flight12-probe-clears-flight13", "date": "2026-07-15", "title": "FAA closes Starship Flight 12 probe, clearing Flight 13", "summary": "The FAA said on July 13 it had closed the SpaceX-led investigation into the loss of the Super Heavy booster on Starship's Flight 12 and accepted the findings, clearing the way for the next test flight. The agency said the mishap was caused by heat effects on propulsion-system components during ascent and erroneous engine-alarm settings, and that SpaceX had made hardware and software configuration changes to prevent a recurrence. Flight 13 - the second launch of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle, pairing Booster 20 with Ship 40 - is now targeted for no earlier than July 16 from Starbase, Texas.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spacenews.com/spacex-gears-up-for-starship-flight-13/", "name": "SpaceNews" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/news/live/spacex-starship-flight-13-launch-updates-july-14-2026", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-14-spacex-600th-flight-proven-booster", "date": "2026-07-14", "title": "SpaceX flies a flight-proven Falcon booster for the 600th time", "summary": "SpaceX was set to notch its 600th launch using a flight-proven - previously flown and recovered - Falcon first stage early on July 14, flying the Starlink 10-45 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral and adding 29 broadband satellites to its low-Earth-orbit constellation. The milestone underscores how routine booster reuse has become for the company, whose fleet-leading first stages have each now flown dozens of times. It came just days after SpaceX set a single-booster reuse record with a 36th flight.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/13/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-a-flight-proven-falcon-booster-for-600th-time/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://spacecoastdaily.com/2026/07/spacex-set-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral-on-tuesday-july-14/", "name": "Space Coast Daily" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-13-spacex-joins-nasdaq-100", "date": "2026-07-13", "title": "SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 just weeks after its IPO", "summary": "SpaceX was added to the Nasdaq-100 index effective July 7, only 15 trading days after its record-setting June 12 market debut, under Nasdaq's new fast-track rule for mega-listings. The inclusion is expected to draw billions of dollars in passive buying from the more than $800 billion of funds tracking the index, though SpaceX's initial weighting is small - an estimated 0.5% to 0.7% - because less than 5% of its shares trade freely. It is one of the first launch companies to enter the benchmark, underscoring investor appetite for space stocks.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/spacex-added-to-nasdaq-100.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/economy/spacex-nasdaq-100-stocks", "name": "CNN" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-11-spacex-starship-flight13-booster-static-fire", "date": "2026-07-11", "title": "SpaceX static-fires Starship Flight 13 booster, eyes July 14", "summary": "SpaceX fired all 33 Raptor engines on Super Heavy Booster 20 at Starbase, Texas around July 10, clearing a key milestone toward Starship's 13th test flight - the second launch of the more powerful Version 3 vehicle, pairing Booster 20 with Ship 40. The booster static fire followed the earlier six-engine static fire of Ship 40, leaving the vehicle largely cleared for launch. The FAA has issued a provisional window opening July 14, though the date could slip; SpaceX is aiming to raise Starship's cadence toward roughly one flight a month and attempt full orbital injection on a later mission.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/starship-flight-13/", "name": "Space Launch Schedule" }, { "url": "https://www.advanced-television.com/2026/07/08/spacex-readies-starship-launch-13", "name": "Advanced Television" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-10-spacex-falcon9-record-36th-booster-flight", "date": "2026-07-10", "title": "SpaceX flies a Falcon 9 booster for a record 36th time", "summary": "SpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record on July 9, launching its most-flown Falcon 9 first stage, booster B1067, for a 36th time on the Starlink 10-42 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 5:25 a.m. EDT. The flight added 29 Starlink broadband satellites to the constellation, and about eight minutes after liftoff B1067 landed on the droneship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' - the 160th landing for that vessel and the 635th booster landing in SpaceX history. B1067, which debuted in 2021, extends its lead as the most-flown booster in the fleet.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-36th-time-new-record", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/07/09/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-on-record-breaking-36th-flight/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-08-spacex-transporter-17-rideshare", "date": "2026-07-08", "title": "SpaceX flies Transporter-17 rideshare with 81 payloads", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-17 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:12 a.m. PDT on July 7, carrying 81 payloads - including cubesats, microsats, hosted payloads and orbital transfer vehicles - to a sun-synchronous orbit. The first stage, on its 11th flight, landed on the droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Pacific about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. It was the 17th flight of SpaceX's dedicated Transporter smallsat rideshare program.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-transporter-17-rideshare-launch-81-satellites", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-07-03-spacex-starship-ship40-six-engine-static-fire", "date": "2026-07-03", "title": "SpaceX static-fires all six engines on Flight 13 Starship", "summary": "SpaceX fired all six Raptor engines on Ship 40, the upper stage assigned to Starship's 13th test flight, for a full minute at its Massey's test site in Starbase, Texas, sharing video of the run on July 2. The test of the three sea-level and three vacuum-optimized engines simulates flight-like conditions and clears a key hurdle toward the second flight of the more powerful Version 3 Starship. Next up is rolling the mission's Super Heavy booster to the pad for its own static fire, with Flight 13 targeted for late July.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-fires-up-all-6-of-starships-engines-ahead-of-13th-test-flight-video", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/06/ship-40-single-engine/", "name": "NASASpaceFlight" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-29-spacex-nasdaq-100-july-7", "date": "2026-06-29", "title": "SpaceX to join Nasdaq-100 on July 7 in record-fast inclusion", "summary": "Nasdaq said SpaceX (SPCX) will be added to the Nasdaq-100 Index before the open on Tuesday, July 7, just 15 trading days after its June 12 IPO - the fastest inclusion in the benchmark's history. SpaceX is the first company to benefit from a new Nasdaq rule that fast-tracks large IPOs into the index by cutting the eligibility window to 15 trading days. The addition, which gives SpaceX a sub-1% weighting, is expected to force index funds and ETFs tracking the Nasdaq-100 to buy billions of dollars of SPCX shares.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://seekingalpha.com/news/4607865-spacex-to-join-nasdaq-100-effective-july-7-2026", "name": "Seeking Alpha" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-29-spacex-falcon9-siriusxm-sxm-11", "date": "2026-06-29", "title": "SpaceX launches SiriusXM's SXM-11 broadcast satellite", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 10:25 p.m. EDT on June 28 (0225 GMT June 29), deploying the roughly 15,000-pound SXM-11 satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit about 34.5 minutes later. The SiriusXM spacecraft is designed to boost signal strength, extend coverage into Alaska and eventually replace the aging XM-5 and Sirius FM-5 satellites. The first stage, booster B1085, landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas on its 17th flight.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-sirius-sxm-11-satellite-launch-falcon-9", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-28-spacex-prices-25b-inaugural-bond", "date": "2026-06-28", "title": "SpaceX prices upsized $25B inaugural bond on $89B in orders", "summary": "SpaceX priced its debut investment-grade bond offering at $25 billion on June 23, upsizing from an initial $20 billion target after demand topped roughly $89 billion in one of the largest-ever corporate debt sales. The five-tranche deal carries coupons ranging from 5.35% on notes due 2031 to 6.65% on notes due 2056 and was set to settle June 26, with proceeds going to repay a March 2026 bridge loan in full. The raise came barely two weeks after SpaceX's record IPO and amid a pullback in SPCX shares.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://ir.spacex.com/updates/releases-details/2026/SpaceX-Announces-Pricing-of-25-Billion-Inaugural-Bond-Issuance-2026-33VwNgsx3O/default.aspx", "name": "SpaceX" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/23/spacex-debt-bond-market-ipo.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-23/spacex-draws-89-billion-demand-for-debut-high-grade-bond-sale", "name": "Bloomberg" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-24-spacex-starfall-reentry-capsule-debut", "date": "2026-06-24", "title": "SpaceX debuts Starfall cargo reentry capsule", "summary": "SpaceX launched the debut flight of Starfall, a disk-shaped cargo reentry capsule, aboard a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 6:52 a.m. EDT on June 23. About 3.1 meters in diameter and able to carry roughly 1,000 kg, the vehicle is designed to return research and orbital-manufacturing payloads - such as pharmaceuticals - to Earth, splashing down about 700 nautical miles off the U.S. West Coast. The demonstration marks SpaceX's entry into the commercial cargo-return market and is the first of at least two planned Starfall test flights.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/23/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-reentry-capsule-demo-mission-called-starfall/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launching-its-1st-starfall-reentry-capsule-early-on-june-23-watch-it-live", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-24-spacex-20b-bond-debut-cash-pile", "date": "2026-06-24", "title": "SpaceX launches debut $20B bond sale, discloses $100.8B cash", "summary": "Just over a week after its record IPO, SpaceX kicked off its first-ever investment-grade bond offering on June 22, seeking at least $20 billion in senior unsecured notes largely to refinance a $20 billion bridge loan taken on in March. In the offering documents the company disclosed roughly $100.8 billion in cash and equivalents as of June 19 and secured investment-grade ratings from Moody's, Fitch and S&P. SpaceX shares fell more than 10% on the day and over 20% across five sessions as investors weighed the rapid pace of capital raising so soon after going public.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-spcx-bond-sale-ipo.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/spacex-kicks-off-debut-us-dollar-investment-grade-bond-offering", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/06/23/spacex-musk-bonds-stock", "name": "Axios" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-24-spacex-reflection-ai-colossus-compute-deal", "date": "2026-06-24", "title": "SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with Reflection AI", "summary": "SpaceX signed a deal worth up to $6.3 billion under which open-source AI startup Reflection will rent capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, paying about $150 million per month from July 1 through 2029 for access to Nvidia GB300 chips. The agreement, disclosed June 22, deepens SpaceX's push to commercialize Colossus, following recent compute arrangements with Anthropic, Google and Cursor. Reflection said the capacity will accelerate its work on open-source AI models for government and national-security customers.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/spacex-secures-63bn-compute-capacity-deal-from-ai-startup-reflection/", "name": "Data Center Dynamics" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-21-spacex-falcon9-nrol-179-nro-launch", "date": "2026-06-21", "title": "SpaceX launches NROL-179 spy satellites for the NRO", "summary": "A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:50 a.m. PDT on June 19, carrying a classified batch of satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on the NROL-179 mission - the 14th flight building out the NRO's proliferated low-Earth-orbit architecture. The spacecraft are widely believed to be Starshield, a government-specific derivative of Starlink. The rocket's first stage landed back at Vandenberg's Landing Zone 4 on its third flight, in what was SpaceX's 71st Falcon 9 mission of 2026.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-spy-satellite-launch-nrol-179-nro", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/18/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-intelligence-gathering-satellites-for-the-national-reconnaissance-office-2/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-15-spacex-spcx-first-day-surge-musk-trillion", "date": "2026-06-15", "title": "SpaceX stock jumps 19% on first day; Musk net worth tops $1 trillion", "summary": "SpaceX shares closed their first Nasdaq session at $161 on June 12, up about 19% from the $135 IPO price and lifting the company's market value above its roughly $1.77 trillion offering valuation after the largest public offering in history. As SPCX opened near $150, Elon Musk's net worth crossed $1 trillion for the first time, driven largely by his stake and roughly 82% voting control. The debut capped a record $75 billion raise and gave public investors their first direct exposure to Starlink and SpaceX's launch and AI-compute businesses.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-ipo-spcx-live-updates.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_SpaceX", "name": "Wikipedia" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-14-state-department-starlink-disaster-mou", "date": "2026-06-14", "title": "US State Department signs two-year Starlink disaster-response deal", "summary": "The U.S. Department of State and SpaceX's Starlink announced a two-year memorandum of understanding on June 12 to use Starlink's low-Earth-orbit network to restore communications during international disasters and humanitarian crises. The department's Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response will coordinate directly with Starlink to give emergency responders and affected populations rapid connectivity when storms, outbreaks, or other crises knock out infrastructure. The agreement formalizes the ad hoc deployments Starlink has made during events such as Hurricane Melissa, Typhoon Kalmaegi, and recent cyclones, and lands the same week parent SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/06/united-states-and-starlink-announce-cooperation-on-critical-disaster-response", "name": "U.S. Department of State" }, { "url": "https://www.satellitetoday.com/government-military/2026/06/12/u-s-state-department-taps-spacexs-starlink-for-two-year-disaster-response-initiative/", "name": "Via Satellite" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-12-spacex-spcx-nasdaq-ipo-debut", "date": "2026-06-12", "title": "SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq in largest IPO in history", "summary": "SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq under ticker SPCX on June 12 after pricing its IPO at a fixed $135 per share, selling 555.6 million Class A shares to raise roughly $75 billion at a valuation near $1.77 trillion - the largest public offering ever, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's 2019 record. Demand was extraordinary, with reported total interest above $250 billion and an unusually large retail allocation of up to 30% of shares. The listing crystallizes the value of Starlink, which generated $3.26 billion in Q1 2026 revenue serving 10.3 million subscribers, while Elon Musk retains roughly 82% voting control.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-price-date.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/spacex-ipo-stock-price-roadshow-musk.html", "name": "CNBC (pricing)" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-11-nasa-artemis-3-crew-landers", "date": "2026-06-11", "title": "NASA names Artemis III crew to test SpaceX and Blue Origin landers", "summary": "NASA on June 9 named the four astronauts for Artemis III - commander Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmitano (ESA), and mission specialists Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas - for a roughly two-week flight that will stay in low-Earth orbit to rendezvous and dock with both human landing systems before any crewed lunar landing. Administrator Jared Isaacman said Orion will link up with Blue Origin's Blue Moon and SpaceX's Starship landers to evaluate life support and other critical systems, with launch targeted as soon as late 2027. The plan turns the crewed test directly on the two companies' lander programs, both of which face hurdles - Blue Origin after the May 28 New Glenn pad explosion and SpaceX as it works to ready Starship for an orbital lander test.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex", "blueorigin" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-iii-crew-announced/", "name": "NASA" }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/science/artemis-3-crew-announcement", "name": "CNN" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasa-reveals-artemis-3-astronaut-crew", "name": "Space.com" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-09-spacex-falcon9-b1067-35th-reuse-record", "date": "2026-06-09", "title": "SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sets orbital rocket reuse record on 35th flight", "summary": "Booster B1067 launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral at 6:13 a.m. EDT on June 8, completing its record 35th trip to space and back - more flights than any orbital rocket stage in history, surpassing NASA's Space Shuttle orbiters at 39 missions per vehicle once landing is counted. The first stage landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas about eight minutes after liftoff, deployment was confirmed an hour later, and the active Starlink constellation grew to more than 10,580 satellites. The milestone came four days before SpaceX's planned Nasdaq debut on June 12 under ticker SPCX.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/07/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-booster-on-record-breaking-35th-flight/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-10-35-b1067-ccsfs-asog", "name": "Space.com" }, { "url": "https://aiaa.org/2026/06/08/spacex-sets-new-reusability-record-with-falcon-9-boosters-35th-flight/", "name": "AIAA" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-06-spacex-google-30b-compute-deal", "date": "2026-06-06", "title": "SpaceX inks $30B Google AI compute deal ahead of IPO", "summary": "SpaceX disclosed in an amended S-1 on June 5 that Alphabet's Google will pay it $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 - about $30 billion - for roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and related infrastructure routed through its Memphis Colossus 1 data center. Coming on top of a separate $1.25B/month Anthropic pact unveiled May 6 for the full ~220,000-GPU, 300 MW Colossus 1 capacity, the deal lifts SpaceX's disclosed AI-compute backlog to more than $70 billion and reframes the post-xAI-merger company as a major AI hyperscaler days before its planned June 12 Nasdaq debut under ticker SPCX.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/google-buying-computing-from-spacex-in-920-million-a-month-deal", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/", "name": "TechCrunch" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html", "name": "CNBC" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-05-spacex-ipo-prices-135", "date": "2026-06-05", "title": "SpaceX prices IPO at $135 for $1.77T valuation, biggest ever", "summary": "SpaceX on June 3 set a fixed $135-per-share price for its Nasdaq IPO, targeting a roughly $1.77 trillion valuation and about $75 billion in proceeds - a deal that would dwarf Saudi Aramco's 2019 record to become the largest public offering in history. The investor roadshow kicked off June 4 with 555.6 million shares on offer, Goldman Sachs leading a syndicate including Morgan Stanley, BofA, Citi and JPMorgan, trading expected to start on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX on June 12, and Elon Musk retaining roughly 82% voting control after pricing.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/spacex-ipo-stock-price-roadshow-musk.html", "name": "CNBC" }, { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/06/04/why-spacex-breaking-ipo-playbook-75-billion-fixed-price-offering/", "name": "Fortune" }, { "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/business/spacex-ipo-valuation-musk", "name": "CNN Business" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-06-02-spacex-golden-dome-amti-contract", "date": "2026-06-02", "title": "SpaceX wins $4.16B Space Force contract for Golden Dome AMTI satellites", "summary": "The U.S. Space Force on May 29 awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites carrying airborne moving target indicator (AMTI) sensors for the Trump administration's Golden Dome homeland missile-defense initiative. The single award - larger than the combined prototype contracts handed to every other Golden Dome bidder - lifts SpaceX's total Golden Dome book to roughly $6.45B and cements it as the program's primary commercial space-layer builder as procurement accelerates toward an initial operational layer.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/spacex-wins-4-billion-contract-for-us-golden-dome-satellites", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2184272/spacex-lands-a-4-billion-contract-to-help-build-trump-golden-dome/", "name": "Engadget" }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/spacex-4-billion-golden-dome-amti-satellite-contract", "name": "The Next Web" } ] }, { "slug": "2026-05-30-faa-grounds-starship-v3", "date": "2026-05-30", "title": "FAA grounds SpaceX Starship V3 after Flight 12 booster mishap", "summary": "The FAA on May 27 formally classified Starship Flight 12 - the May 22 debut of the upgraded Starship V3 - as a mishap and required SpaceX to complete an investigation before Flight 13 can fly. The Super Heavy booster failed to ignite all planned engines during its boostback maneuver, cutting the burn short, and the regulator will oversee SpaceX's report and any fixes before granting a modified launch license.", "companySlugs": [ "spacex" ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/27/faa-requires-spacex-led-mishap-investigation-before-resumption-of-starship-launches/", "name": "Spaceflight Now" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/spacex-starship-rocket-grounded-by-faa-after-launch-mishap", "name": "Bloomberg" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/faa-orders-spacex-to-investigate-starship-v3-booster-failure/", "name": "TechCrunch" } ] } ] } }