Houston, we have an update on all that SpaceX-Tesla merger chatter. During SpaceX’s Tuesday earnings call, Elon Musk said both of the companies had created “special committees of independent directors” to discuss a potential merger. Musk, who helms both companies and owns billions of dollars in stock of each, said he can’t be part of
Elon Musk’s SpaceX said Tuesday that third quarter revenue rose 161% to $14.6 billion year-over-year, cruising past the $12.86 billion analysts expected, according to Visible Alpha consensus from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The company reported net income of $4.4 million, or 35 cents a share compared with a net loss of $541 million in the
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time. If successful, Musk said, the attempt would mark the first time in history an orbital launch vehicle has been fully recovered. But he also
Big Tech is about to run a two-day gauntlet featuring some of the market’s heaviest hitters. Netflix and SpaceX report after the closing bell today. Meta and Tesla follow on Wednesday. All four are, in their own ways, expensive growth stories, and their earnings arrive at a difficult moment for markets. The AI trade has
President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that Elon Musk’s SpaceX shares for children will be given through Trump Accounts. Musk said earlier today that he would give one of his SpaceX shares to “every kid in America” sometime next year. Musk had thanked Trump Account booster Brad Gerstner for “helping enable this,” and Trump appeared
Today, I’m talking with Walter Piecyk, a partner and analyst at LightShed Partners who covers tech, media, and telecom, about SpaceX’s recently announced plan to become a major wireless carrier. Last week, SpaceX agreed to buy a big chunk of low-band spectrum to expand the Starlink network, spectrum that’s been traded around the telecom business
