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A tall, metallic spacecraft, reflecting golden light, is suspended by
a crane against a pale sky.

SpaceX Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.

An initial public offering of Elon Musk's rocket and satellite
company would most likely be a generational wealth event and one of
the largest offerings ever.

SpaceX's Starship rocket in Cameron County, Texas, in 2024.Credit...
Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
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SpaceX Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.

An initial public offering of Elon Musk's rocket and satellite
company would most likely be a generational wealth event and one of
the largest offerings ever.

SpaceX's Starship rocket in Cameron County, Texas, in 2024.Credit...
Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

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By Ryan MacLauren Hirsch and Maureen Farrell

Ryan Mac reported from Los Angeles and Lauren Hirsch and Maureen
Farrell from New York.

  * April 1, 2026Updated 3:41 p.m. ET

SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker, filed confidentially
on Wednesday for an initial public offering, according to two people
familiar with the company, setting the stage for what could be one of
the largest offerings ever.

The company is committed to debuting in June, and Mr. Musk is aiming
to raise $50 billion to $75 billion from going public, said one of
the people, who was not authorized to speak publicly on confidential
discussions.

SpaceX values itself at more than $1 trillion and would be one of the
most valuable companies to reach the stock market, after Saudi
Aramco's 2019 debut valued the energy giant at $1.7 trillion. Aramco
ultimately raised more than $29 billion from its offering.

A SpaceX offering could signal a wave of enormous I.P.O.s, with the
artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Anthropic also exploring
the possibility of going public. SpaceX's offering would be a
generational moneymaking event for Wall Street, the company's
employees and, of course, Mr. Musk, who is already one of the world's
richest men and could become the first trillionaire.

Mr. Musk, 54, who also runs the electric carmaker Tesla and other
companies, did not respond to a request for comment. A SpaceX
spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Bloomberg earlier
reported the filing.

SpaceX, which Mr. Musk founded in 2002 with the goal of sending
people to Mars, has grown into one of the world's leading space
companies. From the beginning, Mr. Musk has said SpaceX's ultimate
mission is to make humans a multiplanetary species, ensuring that
life would thrive if something happened to Earth.

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