The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies SpaceX: 3 models, 1 deployment across 1 region, $2.0B raised. 3 sources back the record.
CategorySpace
Overview
SpaceX is Elon Musk's aerospace company developing reusable rockets (Falcon 9, Starship), satellite internet (Starlink), and autonomous spacecraft. Completed blockbuster IPO in June 2026, now valued at ~$1.6 trillion. Starlink provides connectivity infrastructure for autonomous vehicles and robots.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPublic market capNASDAQ: SPCX
Key facts
Focus
Robot
Robot
IPO
Products
Founder & CEO
Starlink
Starship V3 flight 2 (July 24)
Starship orbital status
Stock performance (post-IPO)
Starlink competition
Starmind AI1
SpaceXAI
Starbase Louisiana
Data & sources
Company filings
2
Web sources
1
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (3)
View all models →Current platform
Starship
SpaceX's fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle — the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. 13 test flights since 2023; not yet orbital. Crucial for Starlink expansion and planned Starmind AI satellite network.
Current platform
Starmind AI1
SpaceX first-generation orbital AI satellite powered by a space-optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system. Co-designed with NVIDIA for orbital computing, extending terrestrial AI factory architecture into space. Launch planned for Q4 2027 with significant scale in 2028.
Current platform
Dragon 2
Capsule (Crew + Cargo Dragon 2) performing fully autonomous rendezvous and docking with the ISS using lidar, cameras and thermal sensors.
Partnerships
Every company SpaceX has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1AstroForge1× joint2 total
- 2Impulse Space1× joint1 total
- 3Momentus Space1× joint3 total
- 4National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration1× joint3 total
- 5NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
- 6United States Air Force1× joint1 total
Most recent
- with NVIDIAjust announced
- AstroForge x SpaceX (Transporter-7)2023-01-30with AstroForgeoperating
- Impulse Space x SpaceX2023-01-01with Impulse Spaceoperating
- with Momentus Spaceoperating
SpaceX on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Mar 2019. Explore where SpaceX's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Claims ledger
Public, dated claims by SpaceX, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.
- OpenCapability · claimed 2026-07-24
“SpaceX's 13th Starship flight successfully deployed first V3 Starlink satellites but Super Heavy booster failed simulated landing — 2nd booster failure on V3. Upper stage survived reentry and floated (first time not exploding). Stock at $115 (from $200 IPO peak).”
Disagree with a status? SpaceX can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.
Current leadership (2)
- Elon Musk Founder and CEOsince 2002-05-06secondary-verified
- Gwynne Shotwell President and COOsince 2002-01-01secondary-verified
ArrivalsJaret Matthews from Venturi Astrolab
DeparturesJaret Matthews to Venturi Astrolab
Founders (1)
Former / Previously (8)
- Jaret Matthews Engineer (former)secondary-verified
- Justin Fiaschetti Propulsion Engineer, Raptor programsecondary-verified
- Max Benassi Senior Propulsion Engineersecondary-verified
- Jacob Balaj Integration & Test Engineer (Falcon 9/Heavy)secondary-verified
- Jack Oswald Propulsion Engineersecondary-verified
- Lewis C Jones Rocket engine / launch vehicle engineersecondary-verified
- Jim Cantrell VP of Business Development (founding team)secondary-verified
- Ryan Westerdahl Propulsion Engineer (Merlin, SuperDraco, Raptor)2013 to 2021secondary-verified
Media (1)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Safety record
No incidents on record for SpaceX.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
SpaceX data centers (1)
AI data centers SpaceX operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Operator customers (1)
- SpaceX1 deployment
Recent coverage
SpaceX in third-party press
Notice of Availability on the Final Tiered Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for SpaceX Starship Reentry Contingency Operations in the Pacific Ocean and Additional Starship Landing Trajectory
SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners'
Hungary’s 4iG Group to Launch Starlink Mobile
Peers
56 peers across 1 segment. Every SpaceX competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
space(56)
36 companies in this segment · low_concentration (HHI 1188.742650389188) · leader K2 Space at 2172%
- Airbusdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Astrobotic Technologydirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Astroscaledirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Boeingdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- China Manned Space Agencydirect competitor(inferred)strong
- China National Space Administrationdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Supplies to (1)
Sensors
- BRINC Guardianby BRINCStarlink satellite communications panel (integrated hardware) -- BRINC Guardian is "the world's first Starlink-connected drone"; BRINC March 2026 launch PR describes "integrated Starlink satellite panel" providing connectivity independent of terrestrial cellular or radio infrastructure; Starlink hardware (not service) embedded in airframesupplies
Outbound supply edges from this company. Each relationship appears here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
Financial state
- Total funding
- $2.0B
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
7 total · 5 operating · 2 just announced · 2 ended
Every company SpaceX has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with NVIDIAjust announced
- AstroForge x SpaceX (Transporter-7)2023-01-30with AstroForgeoperating
- Impulse Space x SpaceX2023-01-01with Impulse Spaceoperating
- with Momentus Spaceoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1AstroForge1× joint2 total
- 2Impulse Space1× joint1 total
- 3Momentus Space1× joint3 total
- 4National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration1× joint3 total
- 5NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
- 6United States Air Force1× joint1 total
All 7 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—just announced
- deployment—operating
- deployment2023-01-01operating
- deployment2022-05-25operating
- technology2026-08-24announcedjust announced
- deployment—concludedoperating
Funding rounds (3)
SpaceX’s 3 disclosed rounds, $77.0B in total, oldest to newest.
- IPO - Nasdaq: SPCX (June 2026)
$75.0B(reported) · $750.0B post
Investors: Public Market (lead)
- Secondary (tender offer)2024-12-01
$1.3B(reported) · $350.0B post
- Venture Round2023-01-02
$750M(reported) · $137.0B post
Investors: Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Gigafund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (lead)
Regulatory filings (1)
- LLO 19-110faa action · us_faagranted
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired Anysphere (Cursor)full acquisitionannounced2026-06-16
Timeline
Every recorded move in SpaceX’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
DepartureJaret Matthews departs
2026-08-23Jaret Matthews left to join Venturi Astrolab
ArrivalJaret Matthews joins
2026-08-23Jaret Matthews joined from Venturi Astrolab
AcquisitionAcquired Anysphere (Cursor)
2026-06-16Acquired Anysphere (Cursor) (full_acquisition)
Funding roundSecondary (tender offer) funding round
2024-12-01Secondary (tender offer) raising $1250000000
PartnershipAstroForge x SpaceX (Transporter-7)
2023-01-30AstroForge's first spacecraft, Brokkr-1, launched aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 Transporter-7 rideshare mission on April 15, 2023, to low Earth orbit. SpaceX provided the launch vehicle and rideshare integration for the 6U cubesat.
Funding roundVenture Round funding round
2023-01-02Venture Round raising $750000000
PartnershipImpulse Space x SpaceX
2023-01-01Impulse Space uses SpaceX Transporter rideshare missions to deploy its orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that deliver satellites to custom orbits. The partnership enables cost-effective in-space transportation.
PartnershipMomentus x SpaceX (Rideshare Launch Services)
2022-05-25SpaceX provides Falcon 9 rideshare launch services for all Momentus Vigoride missions via the Transporter program, including Transporter-5 (Vigoride-3), Transporter-6 (Vigoride-5), Transporter-7 (Vigoride-6), and Transporter-16 (Vigoride-7).
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 23, 2026
SpaceX logo
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 6, 2026
SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2
- Record createdJun 5, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMar 3, 2019
Dragon 2 at International Space Station
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-25
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-25
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- primary-sec-filing
- SEC filing
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
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- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Impulse Space6 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning SpaceX from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Notice of Availability on the Final Tiered Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for SpaceX Starship Reentry Contingency Operations in the Pacific Ocean and Additional Starship Landing Trajectory
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), DOT Order 5610.1D, DOT's Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts, and FAA Order…
SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners'
Several AI companies experienced issues at around the same time.
Hungary’s 4iG Group to Launch Starlink Mobile
Hungarian tech, telecommunications, and defense company 4iG Group will launch SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile in certain European markets. The companies’ Sept. 2 announcement involved…
OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the…
SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Completes 35th Flight in Starlink Launch
SPACE reports a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink satellites from California early Wednesday morning (Sept. 2). It was the 35th flight for the rocket's... The post…
4iG Group and SpaceX Sign Agreements to Deploy Starlink Mobile and Sovereign Satellite Solutions in Europe
On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, Hungarian telecommunications and defense conglomerate 4iG Group signed two commercial and national security agreements with SpaceX. Executed at…
Stock Market Today: Nasdaq Posts Back-To-Back Gains; Tesla, SpaceX Rise As Cybercab Event Nears (Live Coverage)
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Howmet Aerospace: The SpaceX Turbine Scare Is A Buying Opportunity
Boeing Delivers O3b mPOWER Satellites to SES
Boeing has delivered the final three satellites that will complete SES’s O3b mPOWER constellation. The satellites are set for launch later this month on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission.…
SpaceX plans $100bn spaceport in Louisiana
Aerospace manufacturer SpaceX plans to build the world’s biggest spaceport at a cost of $100bn in Vermilion Parish on Louisiana’s Gulf coast. The development will be SpaceX’s…
The Pentagon’s Grok Rollout Puts These 3 Stocks in Focus
The Pentagon's rapid adoption of Starshield AI's Grok is shifting defense capital toward software, boosting Palantir and SpaceX while pressuring traditional aerospace hardware…
Musk Confirms SpaceX Foundry to Ease Gas Turbine Bottleneck Powering AI Data Centers
Elon Musk confirmed that a secret foundry SpaceX has been building in Bastrop, Texas, is designed to manufacture turbine blades and vanes in-house, aiming to accelerate natural…
Machine-readable surfaces
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- RSS feed: /companies/spacex/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/937bc1b7-8eaa-45f6-bcd7-8de1bcf1f685
- Revision history: /companies/spacex/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Impulse Space6 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
Video
CNBC’s Leslie Picker reports on SpaceX being added to the Nasdaq 100 on Monday.
Invest Diva CEO Kiana Danial discusses her market predictions in the AI and space races on 'Making Money.' #fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaki
Sky News Business Reporter Ed Boyd discusses SpaceX’s upcoming inclusion in the Nasdaq-100 on Wednesday. “It’s going to be part of the index of the top 100 sto
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Bloomberg reports on a significant divergence in the assessment of SpaceX's debt quality, with major credit rating agencies assigning investment-grade ratings w
Bloomberg reports that Amazon is progressing with its satellite internet constellation, Project Kuiper, following its latest launch, with plans to initiate broa
SpaceX has reached a historic milestone by producing its 1,000th Merlin rocket engine, highlighting the company's unmatched manufacturing scale and reusable lau
Rocket Lab will acquire Iridium, a pioneer in satellite telephones, for $54 a share in a cash-and-stock transaction as smaller players in the orbital economy tr
Roger Altman, Evercore founder and senior chairman, joined CNBC's "Squawk Box" to discuss the latest market trends.
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow speaks with the CEO of Rocket Lab about the company's biggest bet yet: buying Iridium in an $8 billion deal to challenge SpaceX in the orb
The Wall Street Journal reports that SpaceX showed investors a ‘handset-like prototype’ that was slimmer than an iPhone, though Elon Musk denies the report. S
SpaceX is joining the highly tracked Nasdaq 100 Index next week. It’s already part of the Russell 1000 Index. That means more ETFs have to buy the stock to stay
A billion-dollar misunderstanding has left Korean investors empty-handed in the blockbuster SpaceX IPO. Bloomberg's Bailey Lipschultz joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomb
Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and AI conglomerate is set to raise $25 billion of bonds in five parts on Tuesday, in its debut bond offer, and is paying a relati
SpaceX launched 24 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday, continuing the expansion of its global broadband internet network. The Falcon 9 roc
Heat Index
Category leader91/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
SpaceX draws attention at the 99th percentile but verifies reality at the 21st percentile among space robots. Hype Gap +78.5, 2nd widest among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Meaningful press and media coverage across the period. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 5, 2026
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