SpaceX eyes $75 billion IPO, valuing company at $1.77 trillion

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Jun 03, 2026 · 761 words

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SpaceX eyes $75 billion IPO, valuing company at $1.77 trillion SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company, said on Wednesday it plans to raise about $75 billion in an initial public offering, valuing the company at $1.765 trillion.

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The company will offer 555.6 million shares at $135 each, surpassing Saudi Aramco’s record $25.6 billion IPO in 2019.

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SpaceX, the rocket and satellite company led by US billionaire Elon Musk, aims to raise approximately $75 billion in a record initial public offering, the company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday, valuing the company at $1.765 trillion.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Musk is expected to retain control of the company, with over 80 percent of the voting power”

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Claim 2: “Saudi Aramco’s record $25.6 billion IPO in 2019.”

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Wikipedia and multiple news sources (Bloomberg, Al Jazeera) confirm Saudi Aramco's 2019 IPO raised $25.6 billion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amin Hassan Nasser (Arabic: أمين حسن الناصر) is the President and CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producer. He became acting president and chief executive in May 2015 before assuming the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_H._Nasser

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia had its initial public offering (IPO) on December 11, 2019. It was the largest IPO until the initial public offering of SpaceX on June 11, 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Sau…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saudi Aramco (Arabic: أرامكو السعودية ʾArāmkū as-Suʿūdiyyah), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company, and the national oil company of Sau…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco

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Claim 3: “SpaceX was founded in 2002”

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Claim 4: “That changed in 2020, when SpaceX became the first private space company to take humans to the orbiting lab”

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Claim 5: “Among the many users have been Ukrainian troops and Iranian protestors.”

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While Wikipedia confirms Starlink was activated for Ukrainian troops, no evidence was found in the provided results regarding Iranian protestors.

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Claim 6: “NASA has said it hopes to test an in-orbit rendezvous between its spacecraft and one or two lunar landers in 2027”

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Claim 7: “SpaceX took over Musk's artificial intelligence firm, xAI, in February.”

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Five independent cross-references (NBC Washington, NY Post, EuroNews, CNBC, Phys) confirm SpaceX acquired xAI in February.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX acquired Musk’s AI startup, xAI, in February
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/sp…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX, which makes and launches rockets, assumed the financial and reputational risks of Musk’s xAI after it acquired the maker of the Grok chatbot in February.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/business/spacex-warns-in-ipo-p…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — In February the company also acquired xAI, another of Musk's firms, in an all-stock transaction that valued SpaceX at $1tn (€842bn) and xAI at $250bn (€210bn)
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/20/goldman-sachs-r…

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Claim 8: “With some 13 billion shares outstanding, the company would be valued at $1.765 trillion at IPO.”

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CNN Business and LinkedIn reports confirm SpaceX has approximately 13 billion shares outstanding (specifically 13.076 billion per CNN).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Crew-13 is the thirteenth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 21st crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission will transport four crew members— NASA astr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-13

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Currently built and launched from Starbase in Texas, it is intended as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship

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Claim 9: “NASA hopes that SpaceX will help them do it again in 2028.”

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Claim 10: “In 2012, a year after NASA retired its famed Space Shuttle, SpaceX docked a private spacecraft with the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time.”

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Claim 11: “While SpaceX was not directly involved in NASA's historic flyby of the Moon in April known as Artemis II”

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Claim 12: “In 2020, SpaceX activated its StarLink broadband operations”

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Wikipedia and web search results confirm Starlink was launched as a beta service in late 2020.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of July 2, 2026, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 671 times, with 668 full mission successes, two mission failures during launch, one mission failure before launch, and one parti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starlink Services, LLC is a telecommunications subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX, providing broadband Internet service in approximately 160 countries and territories. It also aims …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In February 2022, SpaceX activated their Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, to replace internet and communication networks degraded or destroyed during the war. Starlink provides critical…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrainia…

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Claim 13: “One year before, xAI absorbed the X social network (formerly known as Twitter).”

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Multiple web search results (Medium, Globe and Mail) confirm xAI absorbed X (formerly Twitter) in 2025, which is one year prior to the February 2026 acquisition by SpaceX.

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web search NEUTRAL — In 2025, xAI absorbed X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) in a $33 billion all-stock deal. That same year, Tesla invested $2 billion in xAI and sold it $430 million worth of Megapack batteries.
https://medium.com/@fkxjpmhtzym1688/when-one-person-owns-the…

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web search NEUTRAL — The IPO filing exposed deeper challenges in the AI industry and specifically at xAI. The company, along with social media platform X—formerly Twitter and merged with xAI last year—posted an operating …
https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/elon-musk-defends-x-ai-ambi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Please see disclaimer . SpaceX Absorbed xAI at a Combined $1.25 Trillion Valuation. Here Is What That Means for the Coming IPO.2026 is proving to be a big year across the Elon Musk empire. Just a mont…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/markets-ne…

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Claim 14: “It now has some 10.3 million subscribers across 164 markets, the company says.”

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The Motley Fool and Axis Intelligence report that Starlink reached 10.3 million subscribers and identified 164 markets as of March 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — How Many Starlink Subscribers Are There in 2026? Subscriber growth has been the defining story of Starlink’s commercial trajectory.Starlink Subscribers by Geography. SpaceX’s S-1 identified 164 countr…
https://axis-intelligence.com/starlink-statistics/

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web search NEUTRAL — A big part of the bull case is Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet business, which reached 10.3 million subscribers in the first quarter. Starlink's subscriber base has doubled over the past year. T…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/02/starlink-million-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — In three months, SpaceX has added about 700,000 customers. SpaceX Starlink is tracking to about 3.5 to 5 million customers at the end of 2024. Congratulations to the @SpaceX team on passing 3 million …
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/05/spacex-starlink-has-ov…

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Claim 15: “The two companies are already jointly developing projects, including a giant semiconductor manufacturing plant known as Terafab.”

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Wikipedia and web search results confirm the joint development of a semiconductor plant called Terafab involving Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.

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web search NEUTRAL — This prompted Tesla and SpaceX to pursue independent chip production through the Terafab project. It is worth noting that Musk does not have a background in semiconductor manufacturing.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/elon-musk-unveils-tesla-space…

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web search NEUTRAL — Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are launching the most epic chip-building effort ever - combining logic, memory and advanced packaging under one roof. A future among the stars.
https://terafab.ai/

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web search NEUTRAL — Terafab is a planned semiconductor fabrication plant jointly developed by Tesla, SpaceXAI, and Intel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terafab

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Claim 16: “The company will offer 555.6 million shares at $135 each”

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CNBC TV18, Latham, and other web search results explicitly confirm the offering of 555.6 million shares at $135 each.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Spa…

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Claim 17: “SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company, said on Wednesday it plans to raise about $75 billion in an initial public offering, valuing the company at $1.765 trillion.”

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Multiple independent sources (DW News, Wikipedia, and other web search results) confirm SpaceX planned to raise $75 billion with a valuation around $1.765 trillion to $1.77 trillion in June 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A trillionaire is a person whose net worth is at least one trillion units of a given currency, typically the US dollar due to its status as a world currency. A trillionaire represents the highest tier…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillionaire

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Claim 18: “Musk's company -- as well as its chief competitor, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin -- are designing lunar landers for the mission.”

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