SpaceX’s pre-IPO investors also participated in funding rounds at higher valuations in 2024 and 2025.

BlackSky Technology trades under the ticker BKSY.

SpaceX’s institutional investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Alphabet, and Fidelity.

SpaceX’s pre-IPO investors accumulated positions through funding rounds valued at roughly $70 billion in 2021 and approximately $175 billion in late 2023.

SpaceX listed on Nasdaq on June 11, 2026.

SpaceX’s first-week share price appreciation exceeded 40% from its $135 IPO price.

The space equity basket includes Rocket Lab USA, Planet Labs, Spire Global, Satellogic, and BlackSky Technology.

Elon Musk holds a reported controlling stake in SpaceX.

SpaceX reached a market capitalization of about $350 billion on its first trading day.

SpaceX raised more than $10 billion in primary proceeds in its IPO.

SpaceX gained another 20% in the following trading session after its Nasdaq debut.

Rocket Lab USA trades under the ticker RKLB.

Satellogic trades under the ticker SATL.

SpaceX priced its IPO at roughly $135 per share.

SpaceX’s IPO became the largest initial public offering in stock market history.

SpaceX closed its Nasdaq debut at $161 per share.

Texas lawmakers approved an additional $300 million in grants overseen by the Texas Space Commission in 2025.

Axiom Space operates a spacesuit lab where engineers are developing next-generation spacesuits for future human missions to the lunar surface.

Axiom Space employs about 700 people, most of them in Texas.

Axiom Space has shifted its legal headquarters from Delaware to Texas.

Axiom Space received a $5.5 million SEARF grant to advance its orbital computing capabilities.

Axiom Space’s Houston-based Assembly Integration and Test Facility will host final assembly and integration of Axiom Station modules before launch to low Earth orbit.

Texas allocated $200 million for the Texas A&M Space Institute in 2023.

Axiom Space has been based in Houston since its founding in 2016.

Axiom Space operates from Houston Spaceport at Ellington Airport.

Texas created the Space Exploration & Aeronautics Research Fund in 2023 with a $150 million appropriation.

Axiom Space operates a Space Station Development Facility in Houston.

Thaicom delayed the Thaicom 9 launch to March 2027.

A component anomaly affected five satellites in Thaicom’s fleet.

Thaicom 9 is an Astranis-built satellite.

The U.S. Space Force intends to use Helios to add greater operational flexibility to its rapid deployment pipelines.

The on-ramping sequence expands the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 provider pool to add industrial diversity for risk-tolerant defense payloads.

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command granted Impulse Space an on-ramp to the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program.

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command gave Impulse Space an on-ramp to the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program.

The U.S. Space Force intends to use Helios to add operational flexibility to its rapid deployment pipelines.

Impulse Space’s high-energy kick stage is scheduled for its inaugural commercial flight in 2027.

Impulse Space secured a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command on July 8, 2026.

SES signed a multi-launch agreement with Impulse Space in 2025 to use Helios for direct geostationary delivery.

Impulse Space received an initial $5 million task order for preliminary on-ramping assessments under the contract.

SES and Impulse Space signed a multi-launch agreement in 2025 to use Helios for direct geostationary delivery.

Helios can deliver satellites directly into high-energy regimes and bypass multi-month electric propulsion orbit-raising maneuvers.

Impulse Space will coordinate with Space Systems Command engineers to establish a tiered mission assurance and risk-mitigation architecture for the vehicle.

Helios can deliver satellites directly into high-energy regimes instead of using multi-month electric propulsion orbit-raising maneuvers.

Impulse Space’s first commercial flight of the Helios high-energy kick stage is scheduled for 2027.

Impulse Space will coordinate directly with Space Systems Command engineers under the initial $5 million capabilities assessment task order.

Impulse Space will receive an initial $5 million task order to complete preliminary on-ramping assessments.

Impulse Space’s Helios is a high-energy upper stage designed to work with a qualified medium-lift rocket provider.

In May 2025, Venus Aerospace became the first U.S. company to complete a successful test flight of a rotating detonation rocket engine-powered rocket.

Venus Aerospace aims to land one major weapons contract and one major space contract for its engine.

Venus Aerospace is focusing on an engine architecture that can serve both defense and commercial space missions.