SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp., founded in 2002, is an American space technology company and a dominant launch provider. It designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, including the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Dragon spacecraft, and Starship. SpaceX partners with organizations like NASA and the United States Armed Forces and is known for its advancements in reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight, and satellite constellation technology like Starlink. Key words: launch provider, reusable rockets, space exploration, Starlink, Falcon, Dragon, Starship, NASA.
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SpaceX reported $4.69 billion in revenue and a $4.28 billion net loss in the first quarter of 2026.
SpaceX will issue Class A common stock with one vote per share and Class B common stock with 10 votes per share.
SpaceX is targeting an IPO valuation between $1.75 trillion and $2.0 trillion.
The same compensation package allows up to 200 million shares to unlock if SpaceX reaches a $7.5 trillion valuation and establishes a permanent human settlement on Mars with at least one million people.
SpaceX filed a preliminary prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, 2026.
Elon Musk owns 12.3% of SpaceX’s Class A shares and 93.6% of its Class B shares.
Goldman Sachs is the lead underwriter for SpaceX’s IPO, and Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase are also involved.
Amazon has secured over one hundred launches from United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and SpaceX for its planned satellite constellation.
Amazon has secured over one hundred launches from United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and SpaceX for its satellite deployment plan.
Amazon Leo, Eutelsat, Iridium, and SpaceX signed the Orbital Safety Best Practices for Satellite Operators version 3.0.
NASA said Artemis 3 will stay in low Earth orbit and dock with prototypes of Blue Moon Mark 2 and SpaceX's Starship.
NASA’s 2021 Artemis lander selection process chose SpaceX’s Starship as the primary provider over Blue Origin’s simpler launch architecture proposal.
The SpaceX Airborne Moving Target Indicator constellation is intended to move AWACS and JSTARS capabilities into low Earth orbit.
The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to accelerate the Space Development Agency’s proliferated low Earth orbit communications backbone.
Amazon Leo, Eutelsat, Iridium, and SpaceX are signatories to version 3.0 of the "Orbital Safety Best Practices for Satellite Operators" document.
The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to develop a space-based Airborne Moving Target Indicator constellation.
SpaceX experienced Starship booster issues.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will launch 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral at 14:57 Spanish peninsular time.
EchoStar agreed to sell its US-issued 2GHz licences, including AWS-4 and H-block, to SpaceX for the Starlink Direct-to-Cellular network.
SpaceX cannot buy EchoStar’s EU 2GHz MSS licence under the European Union’s proposal and must compete for spectrum on the open commercial block.