Jan 28 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX is weighing a mid-June initial public offering, aiming to raise as much as $50 billion at a valuation of roughly $1.5 trillion, the Financial Times said on Wednesday,

SpaceX, the satellite company founded by Elon Musk, is asking state regulators for a number of concessions related to a $42.5 billion government program to provide Internet access to remote parts of the country.

8. Elon Musk Brand as a Valuation Driver: The anticipated IPO valuation reflects investor confidence in Elon Musk’s ability to repeatedly disrupt and scale capital-intensive industries. SpaceX’s demonstrated achievements, more notably reusable rockets and Starlink’s rapid scale-up, underpin this belief, even as execution risks remain significant.

Billionaire Elon Musk is weighing a SpaceX IPO date guided as much by superstition as strategy, with people familiar with the matter saying he has floated mid-June to coincide with a rare planetary alignment and his own birthday.

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

FLORIDA TODAY photographers captured a gallery of images of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaking skyward above Brevard County.

SpaceX has scheduled two rocket launches from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base within a week. The sixth and seventh rocket launches of 2026 in California are coming up within a week – both SpaceX missions to deploy commercial Starlink internet satellites.

A June 18 testing explosion laid bare concerns about minimal regulatory oversight of Elon Musk’s commercial space business in Starbase.

SpaceX plans a June 2026 IPO aiming to raise $50 billion at a $1.5 trillion valuation, potentially the largest ever.

SpaceX is planning to go public in mid-June, with Elon Musk choosing the date to match up with an unusual sky event and his own birthday, according to five sources close to the matter, News.Az reports, citing Reuters.