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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., better known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk and headquartered in Starbase, Texas. SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, the Dragon spacec...
NASA Picks $1.2B PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope As First Probe Explorer — Sep 26, 2026 — NASA has selected the PRIMA far-infrared space observatory, led by JPL and Caltech, as the first mission in its new Probe Explorers class, with a 2033...SpaceX Falcon 9 Set For Classified USSF-385 Launch From Vandenberg — Sep 26, 2026 — USSF-385 will fly a classified Space Force payload from Vandenberg on Saturday, with Falcon 9 booster B1100 targeting its 10th flight and a droneship...Google Launches First TPU Satellites To Orbit On SpaceX Transporter-18 — Sep 24, 2026 — Google's Project Suncatcher will loft four Trillium TPUs aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare on Oct 1, testing the case for orbital AI data cente...Space42 And Viasat Formalize $1B Equatys JV For 2,800-Satellite D2D LEO — Sep 23, 2026 — The signed venture pools more than 100 MHz of MSS spectrum and up to $1B in equity to build a shared LEO fleet for direct-to-device connectivity acros...SpaceX Hits 700th Falcon Flight, Completes SES O3b mPOWER Constellation — Sep 21, 2026 — Falcon 9 launched the final three O3b mPOWER satellites for SES from Cape Canaveral, closing out the 13-spacecraft MEO broadband constellation on Spac...SpaceX Falcon 9 Lofts 27 Starlink V2 Mini Satellites From Vandenberg — Sep 20, 2026 — SpaceX's Falcon 9 boosts 27 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from SLC-4E on booster B1093's 17th flight; landing marks the 662nd overall recovery...SpaceX Pushes Starship Flight 14 To Sept 28 For First Orbital Attempt With 26 Starlink V3s — Sep 19, 2026 — SpaceX moved Starship Flight 14 to no earlier than September 28, 2026, aiming for the vehicle's first true orbital attempt and the deployment of 26 ne...Space Force Names GMTI Program 'RRS-G' With Northrop As Prime, SpaceX AMTI Launches This Month — Sep 19, 2026 — The US Space Force has designated its ground moving-target radar program RRS-G with Northrop Grumman as prime, and Secretary Troy Meink confirmed SB-A...Space Epoch Tops Up Series B To ~$320M For Reusable Yuanxingzhe-1 Rocket — Sep 16, 2026 — Chinese launch startup Space Epoch has topped up its Series B round to roughly RMB 2.3B (~$320M) as it races toward the first orbital flight and sea-b...SpaceX Flies USSF-153 Classified Payload For US Space Force From Vandenberg — Sep 11, 2026 — SpaceX launched the classified USSF-153 payload for the US Space Force on September 10, 2026 from Vandenberg — its 5th national-security mission of th...TEC Bags Europe's Largest-Ever Space Series C: $450M For Nyx And Storm — Sep 9, 2026 — Munich-based The Exploration Company raised $450M co-led by Bessemer, Atomico and the EQT Scaleup Europe Fund, betting Europe needs its own reusable r...UFORCE Nears $5B Valuation In $500M Round Led By Valor Equity Partners — Sep 8, 2026 — London-based UFORCE is in advanced talks to raise about $500 million at a roughly $5 billion valuation in a round led by Antonio Gracias' Valor Equity...SpaceX Consolidates Starlink Launches On West Coast As Starship East Coast Debut Nears — Sep 6, 2026 — SpaceX is basing routine Falcon 9 Starlink flights out of Vandenberg while Cape Canaveral pivots to preparing Starship for its East Coast orbital debu...SpaceX Adds 27 More Starlink Satellites On Falcon 9 B1063's 35th Flight — Sep 3, 2026 — SpaceX launched 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg on September 1, notching its 104th orbital mission of 2026 and a 35th flight for Falcon...Anthropic Signs $35B Lambda Cloud Deal Anchored By NVIDIA In Nueces County, Texas — Sep 2, 2026 — Anthropic has locked in a 5 billion multi-year compute contract with NVIDIA-backed Lambda for capacity at a Hut 8-developed, roughly 350MW Texas campu...OpenAI Ends Cursor Partnership After SpaceX Acquisition, Cuts Off November 12 — Aug 31, 2026 — OpenAI will terminate Cursor's direct model access on November 12, 2026, citing a lack of confidence that Elon Musk's SpaceX will honor its terms of s...NVIDIA Discloses $21 Billion SpaceX Stake, Its Second-Largest Holding — Aug 31, 2026 — NVIDIA's Q2 2026 13F reveals 122.8 million Class A SpaceX shares valued at roughly $21 billion, making the aerospace company its second-largest invest...NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches On Falcon Heavy For Dark Universe Mission — Aug 31, 2026 — NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on August 30, 2026, beginning a three-month journey to L2 to survey d...SpaceX Hits 100 Orbital Launches In 2026, Extends Falcon Reuse Record — Aug 30, 2026 — SpaceX flew its 100th Falcon-family orbital mission of 2026 from Vandenberg with 27 Starlink satellites, then extended booster reuse to 37 flights on...SpaceXAI Picks NVIDIA Vera CPUs For Grok, Sends Vera Rubin NVL72 To Orbit — Aug 27, 2026 — SpaceXAI will deploy standalone NVIDIA Vera CPUs to power Grok's next-generation agentic workloads and plans to launch a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack aboard...