space

SpaceX plans to significantly increase the number of Starship rocket launches and landings at its Starbase facility in southern Texas, expanding the annual flight scale to hundreds of times. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will prepare an environmental impact report for this plan and hold public hearings. SpaceX plans to conduct up to 456 launches and 912 landings annually at the Texas base.

Goldman Sachs arranged a $450 million charitable donation using the proceeds from SpaceX's record-breaking initial public offering through its wealthy clients.Goldman Sachs disclosed this expense in its third-quarter financial report, noting that it reduced diluted earnings per share by approximately $1.

Driven by SpaceX's record-breaking initial public offering, defense spending, and the construction of space infrastructure, global space economy investments are expected to exceed $100 billion for the first time in 2026.Analysis from Space Capital shows that massive investments in the space sector and the number of unicorn companies have reached an all-time high. SpaceX's IPO may prompt investors to reassess the value of other space companies.

Bitget officially launched the rToken US stock transfer feature, currently supporting over 3,000 US stocks and ETFs. Users can transfer eligible stock assets from their traditional brokerage accounts to Bitget, and once the stocks are credited, they will be automatically converted into US stock spot rTokens based on the corresponding number of shares. Throughout the transfer process, Bitget does not charge any fees.The rTokens after the transfer can be directly integrated into the Bitget Universal Exchange (UEX) ecosystem, used for wealth management, lending, margin trading, and other yield-generating products, enhancing the capital efficiency and usage scenarios of stock assets. To coincide with the feature launch, Bitget is also launching a reward campaign with a total value of $1 million in SpaceX stock tokens (rSPCX). Users can receive corresponding SpaceX stock rewards based on the transfer amount, with rewards distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Users can select the stocks and quantities they wish to transfer on the US stock transfer page and use the reward calculator on the page to view the estimated transfer amount and corresponding activity rewards.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated, "This feature aims to help investors consolidate their stock assets scattered across different brokerages into a unified ecosystem without selling their existing positions, achieving flexible allocation across asset classes."

The Falcon 9 rocket for SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply mission of the "Dragon" spacecraft has been vertically erected at Launch Complex 40 in Florida, with a planned launch on the 13th at local time, targeting a launch time of 6:33 AM Eastern Time (18:33 Beijing Time on the same day).

According to data from the Gate platform, Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX (SPCX) both closed higher, reporting $382.70 (+2.05%) and $162.57 (+1.24%) respectively. Driven by the strength of the underlying assets, the open interest of Gate's related stock perpetual contracts also increased.According to CoinGlass data, the 24-hour open interest for Gate's SPCX stock perpetual contracts reached $148 million, ranking second in the industry; the 24-hour open interest for Gate's TSLA stock perpetual contracts reached $19.8131 million, ranking among the top three in the industry.Currently, Gate's stock perpetual contracts support popular stocks from multiple markets including U.S. stocks, Hong Kong stocks, Korean stocks, and Japanese stocks, and has further launched an innovative sector that supports up to 75 times leverage trading. The first batch of the innovative sector includes 40 popular stock perpetual contracts, covering market favorites such as Changxin Storage, Yushu Technology, and CATL, providing users with diversified trading opportunities 24/7.

On October 10, local time, Musk posted a screenshot on social media, showing that the official account of SpaceXAI has been renamed to "SpaceX Super Intelligence" (@SpaceXSI).

Venezuela grants satellite internet franchise to SpaceX.

Elon Musk stated that a valuation of over 1 trillion dollars for SpaceX is also a possible outcome, although the probability of this outcome remains extremely low, but the rate at which this probability is increasing over time is rapidly accelerating.

SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch the fourth batch of the first generation missions for the Space Development Agency on October 10, heading to low Earth orbit.

J.P. Morgan analysts stated that SpaceX's latest spectrum deal may raise concerns about intensified competition among the three major wireless carriers in the United States. Although SpaceX could become a new market participant, the threat to Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T remains limited in the short term.

Barclays has initiated coverage on SpaceX (SPCX.O) with an overweight rating and a target price of $254.

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, SpaceX will acquire the mobile spectrum licenses of Grain Management for approximately 8 billion dollars in cash.

Elon Musk stated that this may sound extremely crazy, but he sees a path that could make SpaceX's value far exceed the current scale of the Earth's economy.

SpaceX has agreed to acquire a nationwide 800 megahertz low-frequency radio spectrum license portfolio.

SpaceX has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 15,000 Starlink second-generation satellites for global 2GHz spectrum.

U.S. President Trump praised SpaceX for successfully bringing back the Crew-12 astronauts.

SpaceX (SPCX.O) is being sued for using user-uploaded photos for facial mapping.

SpaceX aims to launch the USSF-481 mission with Falcon 9 on October 15 (Thursday) local time.

NASA stated that the SpaceX capsule is entering the Earth's atmosphere.