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BlackRock submitted an order to buy at least $5 billion in SpaceX shares ahead of Friday’s debut, the Wall Street Journal reported. That single order is nearly as large as the entire $5.5 billion Cerebras IPO, the biggest of 2026 so far. SpaceX has told banks it will not budge from its $135 per share […]

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The Spanish launch firm says it is the first private operator to commit capital at this scale to the historic Guiana spaceport, with a first MIURA 5 flight still slated for 2026. PLD Space is putting €35m into the launch complex it is building at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, the Spanish company announced […]

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That's on top of another $2 billion contract awarded to SpaceX earlier this week.

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The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on Friday to build satellites that track foreign aircraft and missiles. The programme is called Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator, or SB-AMTI. It is part of the Trump administration’s $185 billion Golden Dome missile defence initiative. Two days earlier, the Space Force awarded SpaceX $2.29 […]

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Denmark’s AkademikerPension, which manages roughly $25 billion for academic professionals, has said it will not participate in SpaceX’s initial public offering or buy shares in any secondary-market transaction, according to Bloomberg. Chief investment officer Anders Schelde called the company “grossly overvalued” and cited what he described as a “catastrophic governance structure” as the primary reason for the […]

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SpaceX is targeting a valuation of at least $1.8 trillion in its initial public offering, down from the $2 trillion-plus it was aiming for as recently as April, according to Bloomberg. The target was adjusted after consultations with advisers and investors, and could still move higher depending on feedback during the formal marketing period, which is […]

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night, sending a fireball into the sky and destroying the vehicle along with critical launch pad infrastructure. The explosion occurred at approximately 9pm EDT as engineers were counting down to a brief test firing of the […]

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Blue Origin says it experienced an anomaly that led to the explosion of its New Glenn rocket and its launchpad during testing.

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The latest from the James Webb Space Telescope could completely change what we know about the formation of these astronomical bodies.