Global Scans · SpaceX · Weekly Summary

• [New] SpaceX - with its $2 trillion valuation, Starlink subscription engine, and xAI artificial intelligence business - will generate demand that dwarfs anything Medline produced. Synergistic Financial Advisors
• [New] SpaceX is building multiple launch pads for its super-heavy Starship rocket, which will operate within a few miles of launch pads operated by SpaceX rivals Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance. Ars Technica
• [New] SpaceX plans to distribute its IPO shares in Korea through private placement basis in Korea. Emerging Market Skeptic
• [New] A lot of US banks are going to do very well out of the SpaceX IPO. Yahoo! Finance UK
• [New] SpaceX is currently excluded from the S&P 500 due to its $4.94 billion GAAP net loss in 2025 from its AI/xAI division, with S&P Dow Jones Indices explicitly declining to waive its profitability requirements, pushing potential inclusion to mid-2027 at the earliest. Disruption Banking
• [New] SpaceX will be able to ramp up APR Energy to 2 to 5 GW per year of energy. NextBigFuture.com
• [New] The launch business, the actual rockets, the thing everyone calls SpaceX, contributed $4 B and is currently losing money, because they are burning capital to scale Starship into something that will eventually make every other launch vehicle on earth look like a horse-drawn carriage. Milk Road
• [New] SpaceX just announced the design for its AI1 Compute Satellite, which it hopes to use as an orbital data center spacecraft. ScienceDaily
• [New] SpaceX will bring low cost, mass scale and new business models. NextBigFuture.com
• [New] SpaceX will be proving out a key part of delivery from space or anywhere on earth in one hour anywhere. NextBigFuture.com
• [New] SpaceX seeks to launch as many as a million data-center satellites to move the computing needs for AI from Earth into space, where less and looser regulation could allow more rapid growth - and even greater profits. Scientific American
• [New] Right now, traders on Polymarket, a decentralized betting platform, assign a 64% chance that SpaceX will close its first trading day above a $2 trillion valuation. CoinDesk
• [New] SpaceX plans to begin launching its third-generation satellites in 2026, each designed to deliver over 1 terabit per second (1,000+ Gbps) of downlink capacity and more than 200 Gbps of uplink capacity to users on the ground. Yahoo Finance
• [New] SpaceX said it plans to price its upcoming IPO at $135 a share for a valuation of $1.77 trillion. CNBC
• [New] With a widely reported pre-IPO valuation in excess of $1 trillion, SpaceX is expected to raise north of $75 billion in the largest IPO ever. Renaissance Capital IPO ETFs
• [New] The upcoming blockbuster IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI are expected to raise a total of $200 B over the next few months. Middlefield
• [New] If SpaceX can seamlessly route inference requests from Earth to orbital clusters via the existing Starlink laser-mesh constellation, xAI will possess a structural cost advantage that no terrestrial competitor (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) can replicate. Klover.ai - Klover.ai
• Elon Musk has vowed to begin launching one million AI data center satellites into orbit in 2028, via the still experimental Starship rocket, in a high-risk plan that could trigger a financial catastrophe, and send SpaceX into a high-speed nosedive. Forbes
• Last week, SpaceX said it had inked a multiyear agreement with Google, through which Google will pay $920 million per month for compute to power its AI efforts. Gizmodo

Last updated: 29 June 2026