Oct 30
Falcon 9 flies its 700th mission
Starlink 15-18 lifted off from Vandenberg; Falcon's success rate sits near 99.6% and booster B1067 has flown 37 times.
Source: Spaceflight Now
The rocket company that became the most valuable startup in history.
Starship has reached orbit. Starlink has 13.6 million subscribers. SpaceX trades on Nasdaq at roughly $2 trillion and owns Grok. Here is all of it — the history, the hardware, the numbers and what comes next — kept current and explained plainly.
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14
Starship flights to date
Flight 14 reached orbit Sept 28, 2026
13.6M
Starlink subscribers
Sept 30, 2026
14.6$B
Q3 2026 revenue
+161% year over year
~11,190
Starlink satellites in orbit
Oct 31, 2026 (tracker count)
165
Falcon 9 launches in 2025
all-time annual record
$1.97T
Market value (SPCX)
Oct 28, 2026 close
Where the story is right now
Six places to start. Every page is written to be read top to bottom or dipped into.
Flight 15 nextStarship
Fourteen flights, one orbit, three booster catches — and in November, the first attempt to catch both stages at the tower.
FlagshipMars plans
The 2026 window is here and no ship is going. What changed, what Musk says now, and the real timeline.
Starlink
13.6M subscribers, a 15,000-satellite phone network approved, and a move to become a US mobile carrier.
Falcon & Dragon
700 launches, a booster on its 37th flight, and Crew-13 at the station.
The public company
The IPO, the earnings calls, and the $1 trillion revenue target.
Elon's Universe
xAI, X Money, Terafab, Neuralink, Boring, the share gifts and the people.
“I’d say it’s more likely than not that this succeeds next flight.”Elon Musk on catching both Starship stages at the tower — Q3 2026 earnings call, Oct 20, 2026
This week
Oct 30
Shotwell moves 2M+ SpaceX shares into escrow for children
SpaceX's president said her personal gift to kids' Trump Accounts is on track for December distribution.
Source: ReutersOct 25–27
Flight 15 hardware fires up
Booster 22 ran all 33 Raptors for about 15 seconds; Ship 42 completed a six-engine static fire. FAA licence still pending.
Source: Interesting EngineeringOct 20
First profitable quarter as a public company
$14.6B revenue, $4.4B net income — and the AI segment out-earned Starlink for the first time.
Source: SpaceX Q3 2026 resultsWatch
Official SpaceX footage, loaded only when you press play.
Starship Flight 5: Super Heavy returns to the towerSpaceX · Oct 13, 2024
Making Life MultiplanetarySpaceX · Sept 2017
Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species — the 2016 revealSpaceX · Sept 27, 2016
Did you know?
124.4 m
Starship V3 stands 124.4 meters (408 ft) — taller than a 35-storey building and the Saturn V.
$100M
Musk put about $100 million of his PayPal money into SpaceX in 2002. The company nearly died with that money in 2008.
39 engines
A full Starship stack lights 33 Raptor 3 engines on the booster and 6 on the ship.
3 catches
Super Heavy boosters have been caught by the tower arms three times: Flights 5, 7 and 8.
170 > 159
In 2025 SpaceX launched 170 times — more than every other country and company on Earth combined.
1 share each
Musk says he will give one SpaceX share to every child in America in 2027.
Heart of Gold
The name Musk has promised for the first ship to Mars, after the Hitchhiker's Guide starship.
~1,200 t
Propellant a Mars-bound Starship needs in orbit — about a dozen tanker flights per ship.