SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition
The company didn’t immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX’s stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses.
SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.
A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era
Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, “homeboy you’re the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters.”
SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market’s appetite for the company’s “fly, fail, fix” approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.
China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
China’s state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine
Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door.
Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation
Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York Times reported.
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil’s new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force
True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are performing Top Gun-style satellite fly-bys for the U.S. military.