Space Exploration Technologies

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(Incorporated in Texas)

Our Mission

Our mission is to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars. To do this, we have formed the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth with unmatched capabilities to rapidly manufacture and launch space-based communications that connect the world, to harness the Sun to power a truth-seeking artificial intelligence that advances scientific discovery, and ultimately to build a base on the Moon and cities on other planets.

Overview

Founded in 2002, SpaceX is the only company building the integrated hardware and software infrastructure of the future across space, connectivity, and AI. At our core, we are builders. We design, manufacture, launch, and operate products and services built on cutting-edge technologies, including the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. We safely and reliably transport astronauts, satellites, and other payloads on missions that benefit life on  Earth. Since 2023, we have launched more than 80% of mass to orbit for the world each year with an over 99% mission success rate with Falcon rockets. We also operate a high-speed, low-latency global broadband data and communications network powered by approximately 9,600 Starlink broadband and mobile satellites in Low-Earth Orbit, delivering connectivity to millions of consumer, enterprise, and government customers across 164 countries, territories, and other markets, as of March 31, 2026. Using our dedicated satellite-to-mobile constellation, we offer connectivity services, supplementing terrestrial networks and substantially reducing mobile “dead zones” across approximately 30 countries.

With the potential to improve both space exploration and life on Earth, AI accelerates SpaceX’s mission to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars.

xAI, which was founded in 2023 and acquired by SpaceX in early 2026, is now an integral pillar of our vertically integrated company. We are rapidly constructing AI compute infrastructure—starting on Earth with the goal of extending to space—at industry-leading pace and cost efficiency. Our infrastructure supports training and inference for Grok, which has emerged as one of the world’s most advanced frontier models. Grok is designed as a truth-seeking AI model, built on our founder Elon Musk’s mission to enable humanity to understand the universe. We believe that accomplishing this mission requires a truth-seeking approach to AI. We define truth seeking as the active, relentless pursuit of what is objectively true about reality, and grounded in evidence, logic, empirical data, and first principles thinking. Our goal is to understand and explain what the universe appears to be doing, as accurately as current knowledge allows. Within two years of its initial model release, Grok achieved frontier-level performance in scientific reasoning, as measured by its GPQA Diamond score, an industry benchmark that evaluates AI models on a standardized set of questions written and validated by experts, on a faster timeline than reported by other leading model providers. Grok also benefits from integration with X, our real-time information, entertainment, and free speech platform, which serves as a foundational distribution and data engine for our AI ecosystem and further enhances Grok’s truth-seeking objective. 

We believe that space represents the largest economic frontier in human history. Connectivity infrastructure in space is designed to help everyone on Earth have access to education, healthcare, entertainment, and communications, and to enable people to overcome many traditional limits, such as physical and political borders. We believe AI infrastructure in space can utilize the virtually limitless power of the Sun and thereby enable the use of AI as a transformative force for understanding the universe and improving the daily lives of all humans. We believe the convergence of these areas will enable an unprecedented expansion in the global economy, leading to an age of abundance. Our innovations and technological advancements are redefining industries on Earth, while we aim to create new ones on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We are truly building the infrastructure of the future.

Space. SpaceX is the only company that has cracked the code on accessing space at scale, revolutionizing an industry characterized by decades of stagnation, risk aversion, and economically perverse cost structures. 

SpaceX upended this paradigm through the application of first-principles thinking, which rejects industry assumptions and builds solutions based on the fundamental laws of physics. Our intense, mission-driven, engineering-first culture and focus on extreme vertical integration have propelled us to achieve what many deemed impossible. We pioneered high-cadence, reliable, and affordable access to space with our Falcon family of rockets. In 2015, we established at least a 10-year lead over the industry by successfully landing our first Falcon 9 booster back from space before anyone else. Space flight that historically cost billions per launch now costs in the tens of millions, fundamentally reducing the cost of space access and providing the opportunity to build new enterprises in space.

•Connectivity. Since activating service for customers in 2020, Starlink has rapidly expanded global access to high-speed internet, prioritizing underserved rural and remote communities worldwide. While building terrestrial networks in such communities can be prohibitively expensive, Starlink is capable of delivering broadband connectivity anywhere on Earth with just a Starlink Kit. As of March 31, 2026, we had approximately 9,600 Starlink broadband and mobile satellites in Low-Earth Orbit, operating the world’s most advanced broadband constellation providing internet connectivity to approximately 10.3 million Starlink Subscribers across 164 countries, territories, and other markets. In January 2024, we also began deploying our Starlink Mobile constellation that utilizes separate Starlink satellites with satellite-to-mobile capabilities, substantially reducing mobile “dead zones” around the world. As of March 31, 2026, our dedicated satellite-to-mobile constellation of approximately 650 V1 Mobile satellites provides satellite-to-mobile data, over-the-top voice, and messaging services to approximately 7.4 million monthly unique devices across approximately 30 countries.

•AI. We were the first company to deploy a coherent gigawatt-scale AI training cluster. For complex reasoning and agentic workloads, compute is directly correlated with the quality of intelligence and task completion speed. 

In under two years, we have established a dual advantage in both cost efficiency and deployment speed at scale.

By owning the compute infrastructure and vertically integrating across the full AI stack, we can train and iterate our frontier models at lower cost and higher velocity and accelerate development cycles. This eliminates external bottlenecks and drives rapid, continuous improvements in model performance. We believe this combination of our state-of-the-art AI compute infrastructure, our truth-seeking frontier model, and our access to real-time data on X creates a significant strategic advantage. Our integrated AI platforms across Grok and X have over 1.3 billion supported accounts active in the last twelve months ended March 31, 2026, including approximately 550 million MAUs and generating approximately 350 million daily posts. Of our MAUs, we had approximately 117 million MAUs that used Grok’s AI features as of March 31, 2026. Grok’s deep integration with X enables freshness, relevance, and contextual awareness that we believe is a competitive differentiator.

This direct, real-time access to the information and human discourse on X enhances Grok’s truth-seeking capabilities by grounding outputs in up-to-date knowledge and diverse viewpoints. As a result, we believe Grok can deliver the most objective and relevant insights and best serve high-frequency, high-value use cases across consumer and enterprise AI applications.

We have created distinct new markets across the space, connectivity, and AI industries by building the integrated hardware and software infrastructure of the future and by combining our broad range of capabilities. For example, SpaceX’s recent acquisition of xAI unites SpaceX’s launch capabilities and global connectivity network with xAI’s AI development capabilities. Specifically, we believe SpaceX’s reusable rockets, scaled satellite manufacturing, and operational expertise can enable the cost-effective and rapid deployment of massive AI compute satellite constellations—with potentially millions of satellites—for orbital data centers. We believe these AI compute satellites in Sun-synchronous orbit will be able to handle energy-intensive AI workloads, such as inference demand, at far greater scale and efficiency than terrestrial alternatives, with Starlink providing low-latency, global connectivity linking these orbital AI systems to people around the world and delivering real-time intelligence. We expect to begin deploying our orbital AI compute satellites as early as 2028.

Note: For the three months that ended March 31, 2026, the company generated revenue on a consolidated basis of $4,694 million, loss from operations of $(1,943) million and Adjusted EBITDA of $1,127 million.

Note: In 2025, we generated revenue on a consolidated basis of $18,674 million, loss from operations of $(2,589) million and Adjusted EBITDA of $6,584 million.

Our Space and Connectivity segments contributed the substantial majority of our consolidated revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2026 and the year ended December 31, 2025, demonstrating the benefits of their scale and operating leverage in our vertically integrated business model;

•For the three months ended March 31, 2026, our Space segment generated revenue of $619 million, loss from operations of $(662) million, and Segment Adjusted EBITDA of $(351) million. In 2025, our Space segment generated revenue of $4,086 million, loss from operations of $(657) million, and Segment Adjusted EBITDA of $653 million. Additionally, our Space segment funded $930 million and $3,004 million in research and development expense during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and the year ended December 31, 2025, respectively, for our next-generation Starship launch vehicle program. Starship is designed to enable a step-function change in our launch capability across reusability, payload capacity, and launch cadence, and is the key enabler of our long-term growth strategy by unlocking entirely new categories of missions; 

•For the three months ended March 31, 2026, our Connectivity segment generated revenue of $3,257 million, income from operations of $1,188 million, and Segment Adjusted EBITDA of $2,087 million.

**Note: In this IPO Profile – SpaceX’s 2025 consolidated loss from operations and its 2025 revenue on a consolidated basis are shown.

(Note: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. filed its S-1 for its IPO on May 20, 2026, without disclosing the terms. Estimated proceeds of $75 billion amount to a placeholder figure.)

Industry: AEOSPACE & DEFENSE
Employees: 22000
Founded: 2002
Contact Information
Address 1 Rocket Road Starbase, Texas 78521
Phone Number (310) 363-6000
Web Address http://www.spacex.com/
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Market Cap
Revenues $18764.0 mil (last 12 months)
Net Income $-2589.0 mil (last 12 months)
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Symbol SPCX
Exchange NASDAQ
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