The Axiom-4 mission, with a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, lifts disconnected from Launch Complex 39A astatine NASA's Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Florida, connected June 25, 2025.
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Elon Musk responded to the latest study that SpaceX is going nationalist successful 2026, calling it "accurate."
The nonfiction from Ars Technica's Eric Berger examined wherefore this is the close clip for Musk's space venture to IPO, and said the emergence of artificial intelligence and opportunities for information centers successful abstraction play an important relation successful the move.
"As usual, Eric is accurate," Musk wrote connected his societal media level X successful effect to Berger's article.
Musk's remark comes aft aggregate quality outlets said that SpaceX was looking to spell nationalist successful 2026, with The Information and Wall Street Journal some reporting connected the likeliness of an IPO past week, arsenic good arsenic a caller stock merchantability valuing the institution astatine astir $800 billion.
Bloomberg said this week that the institution was pursuing an IPO successful 2026 and is looking to rise much than $30 billion.
Over the weekend, Musk said connected X that reports of the $800 cardinal valuation were "not accurate" and addressed the magnitude his institution gets from NASA.
"While I person large fondness for @NASA, they volition represent little than 5% of our gross adjacent year," Musk wrote. "Commercial Starlink is by acold our largest contributor to revenue. Some radical person claimed that SpaceX gets 'subsidized' by NASA. This is perfectly false."
SpaceX didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Heading into 2026, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Musk look acceptable to summation a almighty state successful the government's abstraction program.
Jared Isaacman, who paid millions to pb 2 backstage spaceflights with SpaceX successful 2021 and 2024, is apt to go the adjacent NASA administrator and was voted done committee connected Monday.
He present heads to a afloat Senate ballot for confirmation.
SpaceX is simply a cardinal contractor for NASA, but acting head Sean Duffy has criticized Musk's abstraction cognition for being down connected the Artemis satellite trip, which has seen respective delays.
Musk lashed retired astatine Duffy, accusing him connected X of "trying to termination NASA!"
Duffy, who is the caput of transportation, was handed the reins of the abstraction programme this summertime by President Donald Trump, aft helium pulled Isaacman's information pursuing a clash with Musk.
Trump said astatine the clip that Isaacman's narration with Musk represented a conflict of interest.
The re-nomination of Isaacman astatine the opening of November signaled that the narration betwixt Trump and Musk was connected the mend, and the Tesla CEO's attendance astatine a White House meal aboriginal that period solidified the instrumentality to camaraderie.
— CNBC's Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.
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