SpaceX is closing out the week in classic high-tempo fashion, with back-to-back launches, massive valuation chatter, and Elon-fueled drama spilling over from social media into the company’s future.
Florida Today reports that SpaceX is targeting a late-day Falcon 9 launch from Kennedy Space Center, sending another batch of Starlink satellites on a southeast trajectory off pad 39A within a four‑hour evening window. Spaceflight Now notes this follows a Falcon 9 mission days earlier carrying 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites from the East Coast, with the veteran booster landing once again on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas.” These flights underline how routine orbital launches have become for SpaceX, even as the cadence still outpaces every other launch provider on Earth.
Behind the scenes, the bigger shockwave is financial. The Wall Street Journal, as summarized by outlets like the Times of India and Drive Tesla Canada, reports that SpaceX is preparing a new secondary share sale that could value the company at as much as 800 billion dollars, roughly double the 400 billion valuation tied to a July 2025 tender offer. According to those reports, Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnsen recently briefed investors on a tender that would let employees and early backers cash out at more than 400 dollars a share, while executives quietly signal a possible IPO in 2026. Financial site FX Leaders echoes that this would restore SpaceX as the world’s most valuable private company, eclipsing even AI darlings like OpenAI.
That eye‑watering valuation is being driven largely by Starlink. The Times of India, citing internal estimates, highlights that Starlink now serves more than eight million active customers and operates roughly nine thousand satellites in low Earth orbit, with growth accelerating as the company absorbs spectrum from EchoStar and pushes into direct‑to‑cell service. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has been out on X saying the goal is nothing less than ending mobile dead zones globally.
On the gossip and social front, listeners have watched Elon Musk blur the line between his companies again. Economic Times reports that after the European Union slapped X with a major fine, Musk lashed out publicly, saying the EU “should be abolished” to his hundreds of millions of followers. While the penalty targets his social platform, analysts and fans on X are openly speculating about indirect fallout for SpaceX’s European relationships, including regulatory scrutiny around Starlink and launch operations. At the same time, investor chatter on X and finance forums is fixated on whether the rumored 800 billion valuation is hype or a preview of a blockbuster IPO that could redefine how listeners think about space as a business.
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