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Last year, SpaceX was responsible for over 80% of the total global mass launched to orbit, according to its S-1 filing.
SpaceX's launch business generated approximately $4 billion in revenue last year.
SpaceX's connectivity business, Starlink, generated approximately $11 billion in revenue last year.
SpaceX's established launch capability is considered its biggest asset, providing a competitive advantage for deploying AI data centers in orbit.
According to its prospectus, SpaceX's ability to achieve its orbital data center goals is dependent on making the Starship rocket fully reusable.
SpaceX is contractually obligated to NASA for missions to return Americans to the moon, creating near-term pressure to prove the Starship system.
To reach deep space destinations like the moon, SpaceX's Starship will need to be refueled in orbit by a depot, requiring between 12 and 15 tanker flights per mission.
SpaceX is renting compute capacity to Anthropic for $1.25 billion per month.
SpaceX is renting compute capacity to Google for over $900 million per month.
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on its launchpad during a test, destroying the pad and taking the company out of commission for a potentially long time.
Blue Origin only had one launchpad for its New Glenn rocket, which was destroyed in a recent explosion.
SpaceX's long-standing public messaging was that the company would not go public until it was regularly flying people to Mars.