SpaceX is closing out the week with both record-setting launches and intensifying buzz about going public, cementing its position as the most closely watched player in the space industry.
According to The Space Devs’ live coverage, SpaceX just launched another batch of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, continuing its rapid-fire cadence of Falcon 9 missions to build out the Starlink Group 15 constellation. That flight also pushed SpaceX past its 550th booster landing milestone, a spectacular confirmation that reusable rocketry is now routine for the company and a major cost advantage over rivals, as highlighted in a recent Space Brief update from keeptrack.space.
Florida Today reports that another Falcon 9 is already queued up from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for a Starlink mission, with an evening launch window that underscores how frequently SpaceX can now turn around vehicles, ships, and ground infrastructure. For listeners, the key takeaway is that near-daily launch operations—something that once sounded like science fiction—are becoming normal for SpaceX.
On the business side, the biggest story of the last few days is the company’s accelerating march toward a potential initial public offering. Reuters, via a letter to shareholders reported by outlets like The Business Standard and Outlook Business, reveals that SpaceX has opened a secondary share sale valuing the company around 800 billion dollars, with chief financial officer Bret Johnsen telling investors the company is “preparing for a possible IPO in 2026.” Bloomberg and PitchBook data, cited by Daily Sabah, suggest that a full listing down the line could raise over 30 billion dollars and eventually push SpaceX’s valuation toward 1.5 trillion, which would make it one of the largest IPOs in history.
In that shareholder letter, as summarized by Reuters and Outlook Business, SpaceX says fresh capital would be aimed at ramping Starship’s flight rate, building space-based AI data centers, advancing “Moonbase Alpha,” and funding both uncrewed and crewed missions to Mars. That language has social media in overdrive: on X, finance influencers are already calling SpaceX the “next trillion-dollar story,” while space fans are dissecting every mention of Moonbase Alpha and speculating about timelines for permanent human infrastructure on the lunar surface.
Elon Musk’s own posts on X are adding fuel to the gossip cycle. He recently dismissed some specific numbers reported by Bloomberg about an imminent mega-raise but did not deny that an IPO is being actively prepared, which many Musk-watchers take as a deliberate tease. Meme accounts are already locked onto the share price of 421 dollars in the internal sale, joking about Musk’s love of numerology and treating the figure as an unofficial “Easter egg” for a future stock ticker moment.
At the same time, policy watchers and space analysts quoted by AFP and others are asking whether the scrutiny of public markets could eventually constrain SpaceX’s famously aggressive “test, explode, learn” culture. On X and Reddit, some listeners are voicing concern that quarterly earnings pressure might tame the company’s risk-taking; others argue that Musk’s loyal investor base will accept volatility in exchange for Mars-scale ambition.
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