Micah Maidenberg

The Elon Musk-led company filed an investor prospectus for a stock offering expected to raise potentially tens of billions of dollars as soon as mid-June.

SpaceX boosted spending on its Starship rocket program, with overall research and development investments in its space unit rising to about $3 billion last year largely due to the rocket. The investment reflects how important the still-in-development rocket is to the company’s plans to launch upgrad

The company is looking to start deploying an enormous AI-satellite constellation as early as 2028, SpaceX said in the IPO prospectus, but building it out promises to be a tough endeavor. “Orbital AI com

A big driver for SpaceX is Starlink, which provides internet connections via about 10,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit. Starlink had about 10 million subscribers at the end of March, double compared with the same period a year before, according to the filing. The SpaceX unit that includes Starlink

Musk took home $54,000 in pay last year for his role at SpaceX, but most of his compensation is made up of two massive equity packages, one of which depends on a human colony on Mars. In January, SpaceX gave Musk a package worth one billion class B shares which vest if the company establishes “a pe

Spending by U.S. federal agencies accounted for about 20% of SpaceX’s revenue last year. That proportion highlights both the close ties the company has developed with the government as well as how it has reduced its dependence on public spending by building up other customer bases. Clients across t

The company blasted off a new version of Starship, the vehicle Elon Musk is counting on for Starlink, AI satellites and more.

Before SpaceX can launch its Starship rocket again, the company needs to conduct an investigation into why the booster didn’t perform as expected during the company’s [test flight last Friday](https://www.wsj/tech/spacex-launches-400-foot-rocket-that-will-help-define-its-future-e3cdcc2e?mod=auth

The space company had been preparing one of its New Glenn rockets for a coming mission and confirmed that all personnel are safe.

Space company says all personnel are accounted for and safe; the New Glenn rocket was being prepared for a coming mission