On Wednesday (Feb. 11), the commercial spaceflight company sent 25 more of its broadband internet relay units into space. The launch, on a Falcon 9 rocket, began at 12:11 a.m. EST (1711 GMT or 9:11 a.m. PDT local time) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Space investors and dealmakers anticipate SpaceX’s planned IPO this year will trigger a surge of capital across the industry, but not without the risk of pulling investor attention away from other companies in the run-up.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch Feb. 11 from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Here's where to watch liftoff in California.

SpaceX is prioritizing the moon over Mars, Elon Musk said, citing faster timelines and strategic urgency while maintaining the company’s long-term Mars ambitions.

The rocket company ran a Super Bowl ad for Starlink, the first time any of Elon Musk's companies have run an ad at the showpiece event.

The national labor board is abandoning a yearslong legal battle against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and signaling it will steer clear of future cases against the company. Two years after issuing a complaint accusing the aerospace firm of firing eight engineers because of their involvement in an open letter criticizing Musk,

The National Labor Relations Board, having accused the company of unfair retaliation in 2024, now says it has no jurisdiction over Elon Musk’s space company.

If Musk succeeds in taking SpaceX public this year, it will likely sell about 10% of its equity in the IPO, raising $125 billion. That figure would handily exceed Saudi Aramco’s IPO proceeds of $29.4 billion, the largest global IPO ever, and Alibaba’s IPO proceeds of $21.8 billion, still the largest ever in the US since its 2014 debut.