The launch leader that made reusable flight routine with Falcon 9/Heavy; developing Starship. 165 orbital launches in 2025. Went public on Nasdaq (SPCX) in June 2026 in the largest IPO ever (~$75B raised, ~$1.75T valuation).
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SpaceX raised $75B in its IPO (555.6M shares at $135; ~$1.75T valuation), trading on Nasdaq as SPCX from 12 Jun 2026 — the largest IPO in history, dwarfing Saudi Aramco's $29.4B (2019); the book ran >2× oversubscribed (~$150B in orders).
SpaceX flew Starship V3 for the first time (Flight 12, 22 May 2026) — its most powerful version, built for high-rate Starlink launches and future Moon missions. The suborbital test deployed 20 mock + 2 real Starlinks and was called a success despite engine glitches and a missed booster splashdown; full orbital flight is still to come.
Flight 13 (24 Jul 2026), the second V3 flight, cleared what the debut left undone: it deployed a full batch of 20 Starlink V3 satellites (Flight 12 carried mostly mock-ups), relit a Raptor engine in space, and brought both the Super Heavy booster (Gulf) and the ship (Indian Ocean) to controlled splashdowns — the booster recovery Flight 12 missed. Tower catches, reuse and full orbital flight are still ahead.
SpaceX flew the first demo of Starfall (23 Jun 2026) — a ~2,100 kg disk-shaped reentry capsule, launched on a Falcon 9 from SLC-40 — aimed at a market no reentry vehicle has cracked: returning manufactured goods from orbit (pharmaceuticals, materials) and, eventually, point-to-point terrestrial cargo. The launch and booster landing succeeded, but SpaceX did not publicly disclose the reentry/recovery outcome. A push to make orbital return — not just launch — routine and reusable.
SpaceX launched the first operational batch of 60 Starlink satellites, beginning the first true low-earth-orbit broadband mega-constellation.
Starlink's first direct-to-cell satellites sent text messages to ordinary, unmodified phones — the opening of the phone-to-satellite era.
Starlink passed several million active subscribers across ~8,000 satellites — a self-funding constellation at unmatched scale.
