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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft, founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with the stated goal of enabling Mars colonization.
SPCXACTIVESpaceX designs, manufactures and launches reusable rockets and spacecraft, operates the Starlink satellite broadband network, and through its AI segment operates the Grok model and the X platform. It was founded in 2002 with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
SpaceX has revolutionized the launch industry with reusable rocket technology. The Falcon 9 is the world's most-flown orbital rocket, and Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. The company also operates Starlink, the world's largest satellite constellation providing broadband internet globally. SpaceX holds contracts with NASA for crew and cargo transport to the ISS, lunar lander development (HLS), and numerous commercial and government launch contracts.
Rank 1 of 105 ranked companies
9 of 9 inputs measured · High confidence · 100% of applicable weight backed by data
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-11-11 (UTC) · methodology v8. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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1 Rocket Road, Starbase, Texas 78521
Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Employees, Legal name
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14 private rounds on record before Jun 2026. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Hiring
2850 open roles right now →
Latest government contract
PERU - SPACE X STARLINK
State · $5M · Sep 30, 2026
Latest funding round
Senior notes · $25.0B
Jun 23, 2026
Latest SEC filing
8-K · Nov 6, 2026 · EDGAR ↗
Partially reusable two-stage medium-lift orbital rocket with a reusable first stage.
Partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle using three Falcon 9 boosters.
LEO broadband internet constellation with more than 10,000 satellites in orbit and over 10 million customers.
| Source | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Vandenberg SLC-4E | launch site | Lompoc, US | Source |
| Kennedy Space Center LC-39A | launch site | Merritt Island, US | Source |
| Starbase (HQ and launch site) | launch site | Starbase, US | Source |
| Cape Canaveral SLC-40 | launch site | Cape Canaveral, US | Source |
| SpaceX Hawthorne Factory | manufacturing | Hawthorne, US | Source |
| Starlink Operations | office | Redmond, US | Source |
Starship HLS, a crew lander for Artemis · US vs China race to the Moon tracker
Stage, milestones, announced next steps and slips, funding and filings, every fact sourced:
Contracts, suppliers, launches and schedule for each program, every fact sourced:
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11 dated public commitments by SpaceX, with sources and outcomes on the Promise Ledger.
Compiled Nov 11, 2026 from 19 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from. Facts only: nothing here is a rating, a forecast or a recommendation.
Space federal awards
150 awards, $16.2B obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Oct 28, 2026. Awarded Dec 4, 2012 to Aug 11, 2026; most from DoD (123 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Oct 28, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Aug 11, 2026
Latest space award
$900K from Department of Justice
SPACEX SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Aug 11, 2026
SEC filings, last 12 months
64 filings
Including 2 periodic reports and 11 current reports
Source: SEC EDGAR company filings
Latest Nov 6, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
16 rounds, $119.9B disclosed
Every round has a disclosed amount
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
Open roles
2,850 open roles
30 days ago: 2,677 (Oct 12, 2026). 90 days ago: 2,158 (Aug 13, 2026)
Roles on the company's own jobs board, read by our daily sync. Listings posted or paid for on SpaceNexus are not counted. Earlier daily counts include every listed role.
Source: Company jobs board (Greenhouse)
Counted Nov 10, 2026
Launches flown as provider
317 since Nov 18, 2024
3 failed. Latest: Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-432
Our launch record starts Nov 18, 2024; earlier launches are not counted here. Every kind of launch in the feed counts, crewed, lunar and station missions included.
Source: Launch Library 2 launch record
Latest launch Nov 7, 2026
Next launch
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-627
Go for launch; 136 more on the manifest, 130 of them dated only to a month, quarter or year
Source: Launch Library 2 launch record
No earlier than Nov 12, 2026
Satellites owned or operated
10,691 in orbit of 12,576 launched
Latest: Starlink 38024
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation codes SPX, SPXES, SPXS, SPXTX, SWARMX. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jul 11, 2026
Satellites built
12,830 payloads launched, 10,934 in orbit
Latest: Starlink 38024
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as manufacturer. Counted under GCAT organisation codes SPX, SPXES, SPXS, SPXTX, SWARMX. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jul 11, 2026
Department of Justice
2 space awards, $900K obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Aug 11, 2026
Department of Defense
123 space awards, $8.17B obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Jul 16, 2026
National Reconnaissance Office
Owns 241 satellites it built (latest USA 610)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Jun 19, 2026
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
20 space awards, $8.03B obligated
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, November 11). SpaceX: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved November 11, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/spacex
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "SpaceX: Company dossier." Data as of November 11, 2026. Accessed November 11, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/spacex.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_spacex_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{SpaceX}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/spacex}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/spacex},
urldate = {2026-11-11},
note = {Data as of 2026-11-11; each fact links its primary source}
}USAspending.gov award record, Mar 4, 2026
Space Development Agency
Owns 4 satellites it built (latest BB 4)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Sep 2, 2023
Department of Veterans Affairs
1 space award, $469K obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Aug 30, 2022
Swarm Technologies New Zealand
Owns 12 satellites it built (latest SpaceBEE NZ-15)
GCAT satellite catalogue, May 2, 2022
Estimated: around Wed, Jan 20, 2027 (not announced by the company) · period ending December 2026
Estimated from the company's own SEC filings: its latest results came 20 days after the period ended (filed Oct 20, 2026). The company has not announced this date.
Results filed Tue, Oct 20, 2026, after the market closed · period ending September 2026
Share move in the first session after the results (Oct 21, 2026): +7.79%
Results filing (SEC) (opens in a new tab) · Press release (opens in a new tab)
Director or officer change, or executive pay arrangement
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Other event the company chose to report
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Quarterly report (10-Q)
Quarterly report (10-Q) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Quarterly or annual results
8-K items: 2.02 Quarterly or annual results · 9.01 Documents attached
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Press release (EX-99.1) (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G)
Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G)
Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)