SpaceX | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, the company...
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, the company aims to revolutionize space technology and enable human life on other planets. SpaceX is known for its historic milestones, including being the first private company to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit and successfully delivering cargo to the International Space Station.
Website
Headquarters
Hawthorne, California
Size
1001-5000 employees
Industry
Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Specialities
Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Rockets, Dragon Cargo and Crew Spacecraft, Merlin Rocket Engines, Draco and SuperDraco Thrusters, PICA-X high performance heat shield material, Satellite Development
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🛍️ SpaceX Product and Pricing News
- SpaceX plans to expand its Starlink satellite internet service to Papua New Guinea, collaborating with the National Information and Communications Technology Authority, as announced by Andrew Matlock, Director of Enterprise Sales at SpaceX.
- The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America filed a petition with the FCC opposing SpaceX's Starlink expansion, citing concerns over Elon Musk's alleged ties to Russia and environmental impacts.
- SpaceX's Starlink service has seen a 3.3x increase in global internet traffic in 2024 as it expands into new markets.
- SpaceX has moved its Starship Flight 7 booster to the launch pad for pre-flight tests, marking the first flight of an upgraded second stage with redesigned flaps and larger tanks.
- Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, is expanding into education with a new pre-kindergarten Montessori school in Texas.
- On November 26, the FCC granted SpaceX conditional approval to use Starlink satellites for direct-to-smartphone services with T-Mobile in U.S. cellular dead zones.
- A federal judge ruled in favor of SpaceX against a Texas-based environmental group's attempt to halt rocket launches over environmental concerns.
- On November 18, 2024, SpaceX presented its constitutional challenge against the National Labor Relations Board to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, questioning the Board's structure and expanded remedies.
👔 SpaceX CEO, Management and Leadership Team
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SpaceX Security Officer[email protected]
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Vice President of WW Enterprise Sales[email protected]
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Founder & CEO, Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capital, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, EPIC Games, Klarna[email protected]
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⚔️ SpaceX Alternatives and Competitors
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
- Safran Cabin |
- Boeing |
- Northrop Grumman |
- Blue Origin |
- United Launch Alliance (ULA) |
- Rocket Lab |
- Arianespace |
- Interstellar Technologies |
- Astranis |
- Sierra Nevada Corporation |
- Roscosmos |
- CNSA |
- ISRO |
- Virgin Galactic |
- EtherealX |
- Kinetix |
- Pyralink |
- linkspace |
- Scorpius |
- Khrunichev |
- Relativity Space |
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
💼 SpaceX Hiring and Layoffs
- Cody Yanniello has left SpaceX as Applications & Strategy in the United States to join Citadel as Chief Operating Officer - Engineering.
- Lisa Leow has joined SpaceX as Executive Assistant to Chief Executive Officer in Penang, Malaysia, previously working in the same role at another company.
- Robert Wiggenhorn has left SpaceX, where he served as Director, Starlink Enterprise Engineering in the United States, to join Vast as Vice President, Space Station Engineering.
- Fidèle Kabera has joined SpaceX as Executive VP in the United States, previously holding a position at another company.
- Scott F. joined SpaceX as Director of Interplanetary Coatings in the United States, previously serving as Paint Operations Manager at Teijin Limited.
- SpaceX is currently hiring a Contracts Director in the United States.
- Gabe Clark has left SpaceX, where he served as Global Supply Manager - Starship in Hutto, Texas, to join A.R. Machining, Inc. as Director of Purchasing.
- SpaceX is currently hiring for the position of Enterprise Account Lead - Latin America (LATAM) in the United States.
🤖 SpaceX Developer, Integration and Automation News
- SpaceX secured a Pentagon contract to expand Ukraine's access to Starshield, increasing the number of connected Starlink terminals from 500 to 2,500.
- Hedera partners with SpaceX to integrate blockchain technology for efficient data tracking in space missions, potentially boosting HBAR's market position.
- SpaceX has won an $843 million contract to deorbit and destroy the International Space Station.
- SpaceX partnered with the National Reconnaissance Office to deploy secretive satellites in a late-night launch from California on November 29.
- SpaceX plans to launch texting services via its Starlink low-Earth-orbit constellation in partnership with T-Mobile by the end of the year.
- NASA has chosen SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the $3.35 billion Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan in July 2028.
- NASA awarded SpaceX a $256.6 million contract to launch the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan, marking SpaceX's first launch of a nuclear-powered spacecraft.
- SpaceX signed its second commercial deal to deliver Lunar Outpost's Eagle rover to the moon using a Starship lunar lander.
📈 SpaceX Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- SpaceX is raising money in private markets with a valuation of $350 billion, making an IPO unlikely.
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