SpaceX News
Latest SpaceX news and analysis — 29 articles tagged SpaceX on The Robotics Media.
- Anthropic Investors Target $2 Trillion IPO In October, Setting Up Largest Listing Ever — — Anthropic's backers are targeting a $2 trillion valuation for an October 2026 IPO that would eclipse SpaceX's June listing as the largest ever, with i...
- SpaceX Hits 100 Falcon Missions For 2026 With Vandenberg Starlink Launch — — A pre-dawn Falcon 9 from Vandenberg carried 27 Starlink satellites to orbit, giving SpaceX its 100th Falcon-family flight of 2026, with the Starlink f...
- SpaceX's Starlink Crosses 11,000 Satellites As One Network Nears Two-Thirds Of Active Fleet — — A 24-satellite Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg on August 19, 2026 appears to have pushed SpaceX's Starlink constellation past 11,000 spacecraft in orb...
- SpaceX Hits 100 Orbital Missions Of 2026 With Vandenberg Starlink Launch — — SpaceX's overnight Falcon 9 launch of the Starlink 15-20 mission from Vandenberg marked the company's 100th orbital flight of 2026 for the third conse...
- SpaceX Hits 100 Launches for 2026 with Starlink 17-50 Flight — — SpaceX's Falcon 9 Starlink 17-50 launch from Vandenberg on August 18 marked the company's 100th mission of 2026, the third straight century year.
- SpaceX Closes Record $60B All-Stock Buy Of AI Coding Startup Cursor — — SpaceX has completed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor developer Anysphere, folding the AI coding startup into a new SpaceXAI division p...
- Vietnam's VinSpace Books SpaceX Transporter to Launch Its First Satellites — — Vingroup-owned VinSpace will fly its first satellites aboard SpaceX's Transporter ride-share in Q2 2027, marking a milestone for Vietnam's nascent com...
- SpaceX Sends 8 Globalstar Sats Up In New 38-Minute Doubleheader Record — — SpaceX launched eight Globalstar satellites from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 15, 2026 and set a new coast-to-coast record with a second Falcon 9 from Vande...
- Nvidia's SEC 13F Reveals $50B In SpaceX And Intel Stock — Two Locked-In Chip Buyers — — Nvidia's Aug 14 SEC 13F disclosure shows $21B in SpaceX Class A shares and $30B in Intel, more than 80 percent of its listed equity portfolio, tighten...
- Rocket Lab Debuts GHOST, A Spaceport You Can Ship In A Container — — Rocket Lab unveiled GHOST, a containerized launch system that packages a complete Electron or HASTE launch site into shipping containers, with the fir...
- SpaceX Sets 72nd Starlink Flight Of 2026 With Cape Canaveral 10-19 Mission — — SpaceX is set to launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 this week aboard booster B1085 on its 18th flight — the 72...
- Tesla And SpaceX Break Ground On $16.8B Terafab Chip Complex In Grimes County, Texas — — Elon Musk's two flagship companies formally committed $16.8B to Terafab, a vertically integrated 100M-sq-ft semiconductor complex north of Houston tha...
- SpaceX Notches 50th West Coast Launch Of 2026 With Starlink 17-38 — — A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg on Aug. 8 carrying 24 Starlink satellites, marking SpaceX's 50th California launch of 2026 as the West Coast pad...
- NASA Sets August 30 Falcon Heavy Launch For Roman Space Telescope — — NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, with a Hubble-sized mirror and a view 100x wider, is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy on...
- SpaceX Lands $1.6B Space Force Deal for 18 Falcon 9 Launches — — The US Space Force awarded SpaceX two task orders worth $1.6 billion for 18 Falcon 9 missions from Vandenberg through 2027, backing space-based sensin...
- SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage Slams Into Moon at 5,400 MPH Near Einstein Crater — — A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage from a 2025 lunar-delivery mission finally hit the Moon on August 5, 2026, gouging a fresh crater near Einstei...
- SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 17-52, B1081 Flies 26th Time From Vandenberg — — SpaceX added another 24 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to low Earth orbit on Friday night, with Falcon 9 booster B1081 flying for a 26th time a...
- SpaceX Launches NROL-95 Spy Satellite For NRO On Falcon 9 — — A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted a classified NRO payload from Cape Canaveral at 3:10 a.m. EDT on July 30, marking the third NSSL Phase 2 mission delivered fo...
- SpaceX Wins $1.6B Space Force Task Order For 18 Falcon 9 SBST Launches — — SpaceX has been assigned $1.6 billion in Space Force task orders to fly 18 Falcon 9 missions from Vandenberg through 2027 for the SBST sensing-and-tar...
- SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 Deploys First V3 Starlink Batch, Splashes Down — — Starship lifted off from Starbase on July 24, deployed 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites and made controlled splashdowns of both the Super Hea...