The launch leader that made reusable flight routine with Falcon 9/Heavy; developing Starship. 165 orbital launches in 2025. Went public on Nasdaq (SPCX) in June 2026 in the largest IPO ever (~$75B raised, ~$1.75T valuation).
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 succeeded on July 24 — the second flight of the V3 vehicle. It deployed all 20 Starlink V3 satellites (Flight 12 carried mostly mock-ups), relit a Raptor in space, and brought both the Super Heavy booster (Gulf) and the ship (Indian Ocean) to controlled splashdowns — the booster recovery that Flight 12 missed.
SpaceX — Flight 13 (24 Jul 2026), the second V3 flight, cleared what the debut left undone: it deployed a full batch of 20 Starlink V3 satellites (Flight 12 carried mostly mock-ups), relit a Raptor engine in space, and brought both the Super Heavy booster (Gulf) and the ship (Indian Ocean) to controlled splashdowns — the booster recovery Flight 12 missed. Tower catches, reuse and full orbital flight are still ahead.
CASC's Long March 10B, launched from Hainan, recovered its first-stage booster at sea about six minutes after stage separation — caught by a net-and-hook system rather than landing on legs, China's first controlled recovery of an orbital launch vehicle and the first net-based one anywhere. Only SpaceX (routinely) and Blue Origin (since Nov 2025) had landed orbital-class boosters.
SpaceX — SpaceX raised $75B in its IPO (555.6M shares at $135; ~$1.75T valuation), trading on Nasdaq as SPCX from 12 Jun 2026 — the largest IPO in history, dwarfing Saudi Aramco's $29.4B (2019); the book ran >2× oversubscribed (~$150B in orders).
SpaceX — SpaceX flew Starship V3 for the first time (Flight 12, 22 May 2026) — its most powerful version, built for high-rate Starlink launches and future Moon missions. The suborbital test deployed 20 mock + 2 real Starlinks and was called a success despite engine glitches and a missed booster splashdown; full orbital flight is still to come.
SpaceX / T-Mobile — Starlink's first direct-to-cell satellites sent text messages to ordinary, unmodified phones — the opening of the phone-to-satellite era.