SpaceX has surged through a packed few days, blending record-breaking launches, high-stakes national security work, and fresh speculation about its enormous valuation and long-term ambitions.
On December 8, SpaceX flew a Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, and the booster landed successfully after its **32nd flight**, setting a new reuse record for an orbital-class rocket. Space.com and VideoFromSpace highlight how booster 1067, already a workhorse, cemented SpaceX’s lead in rapid reusability, with liftoff at 5:26 p.m. Eastern and a flawless recovery downrange.
Hot on the heels of that mission, SpaceX is turning around another Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral for a classified launch for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, mission NROL-77. Space.com reports that this national security flight is scheduled to lift off with a secret payload and that SpaceX will likely cut its webcast after booster landing, in keeping with the NRO’s preference for secrecy around spy satellites and their orbits. The booster, core 1096, is flying for the fourth time, underscoring how reusable hardware is now routine even on sensitive government missions.
On the West Coast, local outlets like Phoenix New Times are priming listeners in Arizona and the Southwest for a predawn Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base that should be visible as a bright “space jellyfish” plume in the sky, followed by another overnight Starlink shot a couple of days later. These repeated Starlink missions keep adding to a constellation now numbering well over seven thousand satellites, with Starlink connectivity now embedded in airlines, cruise ships, and disaster-response scenarios worldwide.
Financially, intrigue is swirling. Bloomberg recently reported that insider share sales could value SpaceX as high as 800 billion dollars, but Elon Musk took to X to push back, saying SpaceX has been cash-flow positive for years and is not raising at that figure, instead doing twice-yearly stock buybacks to provide liquidity for employees and investors. According to Phys.org’s coverage of that post, Musk’s denial hasn’t stopped chatter that SpaceX is edging toward an unprecedented private valuation.
Socially and culturally, Musk is using X to frame SpaceX as the spearhead of a multi-planetary, energy-rich future. An X Report summary on KeepTrack.Space notes that he has been talking about humanity becoming a Type II civilization, leaning heavily on AI and massive satellite networks like Starlink as the backbone of that leap. Those posts are feeding nonstop commentary from space fans, critics, and technologists who see SpaceX as either the engine of a new space age or a company pushing the limits of orbital crowding and geopolitical power.
Across launches, leaks, and late-night posts, SpaceX is ending the week looking less like a conventional aerospace contractor and more like core infrastructure for everything from global internet to U.S. intelligence and Musk’s own cosmic narrative.
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