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.
Reality check
Satellite plans (company-claimed)
Plans up to 100,000 Starlink and up to 1 million Starmind AI compute satellites, an FCC application, not deployed hardware.
SpaceXAI (company-claimed)
AI division running NVIDIA Vera CPUs for agentic orchestration behind Grok. Musk said in Oct 2026 it will be renamed SpaceXSI.
Compute revenue estimate (company-claimed)
Estimated five compute customers at about $54.5B a year on about 1.175 GW.
Colossus community page (company-claimed)
Sep 2026: SpaceX's Mid-South page for the Memphis-area Colossus cluster cites a 3.3 GWh grid battery, a water plant and substations.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPublic market capNASDAQ: SPCX
Key facts
Products
IPO (June 2026)
Starship V3 flight 2 (July 2026)
Starship status
Starlink
Starmind AI1
Compute customers (reported, unconfirmed)
NVIDIA chip financing (reported, Oct 2026)
Data center build pace (sources differ)
Starbase Louisiana
Transporter-18 (Oct 2026)
Distributed Inference Cloud (reported, unconfirmed)
Q3 2026 SI segment (company-reported)
Q3 2026 capex (company-reported)
Nameplate compute (company-reported, Sep 30 2026)
Compute pricing (CFO-stated, Oct 2026)
Merger review with Tesla (company-stated, Oct 2026)
GPU debt financing closed (Musk-stated, Oct 2026)
GPU finance lease (company-stated, Oct 2026)
GPU lease terms (company-stated, Oct 2026)
GPU lease backers (company-stated, Oct 2026)
Anthropic compute deals (counterparty filing, Oct 2026)
Largest customer, Q3 2026 (company filing)
Customer B identity (reported, Oct 2026)
Data & sources
Company filings
8
Press releases
4
News coverage
10
Web sources
33
55 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
- 2Google1× joint19 total
- 3Impulse Space1× joint1 total
- 4Momentus Space1× joint3 total
- 5National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration1× joint3 total
- 6NVIDIA1× joint132 total
Most recent
- with NVIDIAjust announced
- with Googleoperating
- Vast Space x SpaceX2023-05-10with Vast Spacejust announced
- AstroForge x SpaceX (Transporter-7)2023-01-30with AstroForgeoperating
- Impulse Space x SpaceX2023-01-01with Impulse 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.
View the full SpaceX deployment record →
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
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
Mentioned on (77)
Registry pages whose text names SpaceX.
Companies (20)
Rendezvous Robotics, Tesla, Anthropic, Apollo Global Management, Inc., GITAI, Turion Space, Stoke Space, Impulse Space, Reflection AI, Phantom Space, Noble Machines, Momentus Space, Fortastra, Singularity, TerraFirma, Arianespace, Panthalassa, Founders Fund, Bond, Ambrosia Energy
Robots and products (13)
GITAI S2 Autonomous Arm, Atomos OTV, Starship, ICEYE Satellite, ION, Haven Demo, Starmind AI1, Panthalassa Platform, Deterrence Autonomous System, Brood, Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle, spacevan, Apex Satellite Bus
Deployments (11)
spacevan at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, spacevan at Low Earth Orbit (Sun-Synchronous), spacevan at Low Earth Orbit, ION at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA (multiple Transporter missions), Apex Satellite Bus at Low Earth Orbit, Clarity VLEO Satellite Platform at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, Clarity VLEO Satellite Platform at Vandenberg SFB, California, USA, Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle at Vandenberg SFB, California, USA, Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, Gravitas Satellite Platform at Luxembourg (SES HQ) / Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA, Int-Ball at International Space Station
People (31)
Robert Anderson, Sean Wood, Edward Mehr, Erik Schluntz, Armen Arakelyan, Juerg Frefel, Robert Rose, Wei Ding, Vikram Kothari, John Morgan, Jack Oswald, Tory Bruno, Mike Smayda, AyJay Lasater, Joe Pawelski, Gary Calnan, Karan Kunjur, Jim Cantrell, Ryan Westerdahl, Max Benassi, Matt Gialich, Jose Acain, Jacob Balaj, Matija Milenovic, and 7 more
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
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
9 total · 7 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
- with Googleoperating
- Vast Space x SpaceX2023-05-10with Vast Spacejust announced
- AstroForge x SpaceX (Transporter-7)2023-01-30with AstroForgeoperating
- Impulse Space x SpaceX2023-01-01with Impulse Spaceoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1AstroForge1× joint2 total
- 2Google1× joint19 total
- 3Impulse Space1× joint1 total
- 4Momentus Space1× joint3 total
- 5National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration1× joint3 total
- 6NVIDIA1× joint132 total
All 9 partnerships
open in the atlas →- deployment—operating
- joint venture—operating
- technology2026-06-05operating
- technology2023-05-10just announced
- deployment2023-01-01operating
- deployment2022-05-25operating
Funding rounds (3)
SpaceX’s 3 disclosed rounds, $77.0B in total, oldest to newest.
- IPO - Nasdaq: SPCX (June 2026)2026-06-11
$75.0B(reported)
- 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
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Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 55 sources (12 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-29
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-29
Sources by quality tier
- 32
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 8
- primary-sec-filing
- SEC filing
- 6
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 4
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 4
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for SpaceX.Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning SpaceX from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Ukraine reports Starlink operating again after slowdown
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/spacex.md
- 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
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 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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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 20th percentile among space robots. Hype Gap +79.9, 2nd widest among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Well-capitalized with $77.0B raised and recent funding activity. 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: Nov 2, 2026
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