SpaceX

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

With listings now occurring later in a company’s life cycle, there could be implications for post-IPO share price performance

Roughly 90% of the touted $28.5tn ‘market opportunity’ pertains not to space but to AI and adjacent data-centre services

ChatGPT group founder’s reputation has taken a battering in a courtroom battle that was ultimately decided on a technicality

Financial ties range from Cybertruck purchases and shared private jets to stock investments

Veteran investors have long joked that IPO means It’s Probably Overpriced

It’s not like Amazon

Rule adjustments being made by index providers are bending long-standing norms to accommodate a single company

We should leave the moon alone

Spotlight on the Artemis II mission reveals the complexity of deep space travel

Starlink’s growth may justify optimism – but critics of Elon Musk say the numbers still require heroic assumptions

The long-dormant dream of establishing a permanent lunar base draws one step closer

Classic scenario typically sees a rush of companies selling to ravenous public; the AI boom has been more marked by buy-backs

Familiar territory as a cash-generating Musk company props up a riskier venture, with investors left to take it on faith

Tech billionaire and platform’s former chief Linda Yaccarino summoned for ‘voluntary interviews’ in April

SpaceX is requesting permission to launch as many as a million satellites into the Earth’s orbit to speed up its AI plans

Celestial calendar meets high finance, as billionaire’s personal impulses shape plans to raise $50bn in record listing

Despite being widely considered a bit of a loudmouth in Ireland, the Ryanair boss has been practising self-deprecation for decades

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley set to take lead on listing

Early return in SpaceX capsule marks first time Nasa has cut short ISS mission due to health issue

Public listings raised $171.8 billion globally last year, an increase of 39 per cent on 2024

Tesla’s profits have fallen due to a strong consumer backlash against his political activities

Social media lit up with theories of what had caused mysterious bright light in the sky

The rift with SpaceX is the latest symptom of the disarray engulfing the US agency and its ambitions

Orthopaedic surgeon and former British paralympian John McFall was chosen for a bold experiment to see whether a lower-limb amputee could meet the demands of space flight

Today’s newest workers have overcome hurdles that would have seemed preposterous to their older colleagues

Tenth time lucky for Elon Musk’s firm as largely successful mission was likely a relief to both SpaceX and Nasa

Number of State agencies rely on controversial former Trump ally’s firm for internet services

Helen Lewis discusses her new book, The Genius Myth, which sets out to unravel the mystery of what we mean when we call someone a genius

No injuries after ‘major anomaly’ causes explosion ahead of 10th test flight

Billionaire Elon Musk faces rare convergence of threats - collapsing brand loyalty, shaky revenues, and mounting legal and regulatory risk

DOGE’s special government employee rides his rocket into the sunset

Trump says Golden Dome will protect US from foreign strikes using ground and space-based weapons

AI changes to search decimate traffic to independent websites

The backlash focused on the faux feminism in the marketing blitz, while genuine concerns about women in science vanished into a black hole

Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez and other celebrities boarding Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight feels like training for billionaires escaping Earth

Aviation officials warn airlines of possible explosion debris - but say risk is ‘extremely low’

Shares of some companies, including government contracting companies, rose following the report

Tesla’s market value has slumped in recent weeks while he has potentially big enemies among Donald Trump’s Maga clique

SpaceX capsule carrying Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams and two other crew members splashes down off Florida coast