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SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP
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Company Description (Source)
Our mission is to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life
multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the
light of consciousness to the stars. To do this, we have formed the most
ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth with
unmatched capabilities to rapidly manufacture and launch space-based
communications that connect the world, to harness the Sun to power a
truth-seeking artificial intelligence that advances scientific discovery, and
ultimately to build a base on the Moon and cities on other planets.
Founded in 2002, SpaceX is the only company building the integrated hardware and
software infrastructure of the future across space, connectivity, and AI. At our
core, we are builders. We design, manufacture, launch, and operate products and
services built on cutting-edge technologies, including the world’s most advanced
rockets and spacecraft. We safely and reliably transport astronauts, satellites,
and other payloads on missions that benefit life on Earth. Since 2023, we have
launched more than 80% of mass to orbit for the world each year with an over 99%
mission success rate with Falcon rockets. We also operate a high-speed, low-
latency global broadband data and communications network powered by
approximately 9,600 Starlink broadband and mobile satellites in Low-Earth Orbit,
delivering connectivity to millions of consumer, enterprise, and government
customers across 164 countries, territories, and other markets, as of March 31,
2026. Using our dedicated satellite-to-mobile constellation, we offer
connectivity services, supplementing terrestrial networks and substantially
reducing mobile “dead zones” across approximately 30 countries.
With the potential to improve both space exploration and life on Earth, AI
accelerates SpaceX’s mission to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true
nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars.
xAI, which was founded in 2023 and acquired by SpaceX in early 2026, is now an
integral pillar of our vertically integrated company. We are rapidly
constructing AI compute infrastructure—starting on Earth with the goal of
extending to space—at industry-leading pace and cost efficiency. Our
infrastructure supports training and inference for Grok, which has emerged as
one of the world’s most advanced frontier models. Grok is designed as a truth-
seeking AI model, built on our founder Elon Musk’s mission to enable humanity to
understand the universe. We believe that accomplishing this mission requires a
truth-seeking approach to AI. We define truth seeking as the active, relentless
pursuit of what is objectively true about reality, and grounded in evidence,
logic, empirical data, and first principles thinking. Our goal is to understand
and explain what the universe appears to be doing, as accurately as current
knowledge allows. Within two years of its initial model release, Grok achieved
frontier-level performance in scientific reasoning, as measured by its GPQA
Diamond score, an industry benchmark that evaluates AI models on a standardized
set of questions written and validated by experts, on a faster timeline than
reported by other leading model providers. Grok also benefits from integration
with X, our real-time information, entertainment, and free speech platform,
which serves as a foundational distribution and data engine for our AI ecosystem
and further enhances Grok’s truth-seeking objective.
We believe that space represents the largest economic frontier in human history.
Connectivity infrastructure in space is designed to help everyone on Earth have
access to education, healthcare, entertainment, and communications, and to
enable people to overcome many traditional limits, such as physical and
political borders. We believe AI infrastructure in space can utilize the
virtually limitless power of the Sun and thereby enable the use of AI as a
transformative force for understanding the universe and improving the daily
lives of all humans. We believe the convergence of these areas will enable an
unprecedented expansion in the global economy, leading to an age of abundance.
Our innovations and technological advancements are redefining industries on
Earth, while we aim to create new ones on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We are
truly building the infrastructure of the future.
• Space. SpaceX is the only company that has cracked the code on accessing space
at scale, revolutionizing an industry characterized by decades of stagnation,
risk aversion, and economically perverse cost structures. SpaceX upended this
paradigm through the application of first-principles thinking, which rejects
industry assumptions and builds solutions based on the fundamental laws of
physics. Our intense, mission-driven, engineering-first culture and focus on
extreme vertical integration have propelled us to achieve what many deemed
impossible. We pioneered high-cadence, reliable, and affordable access to
space with our Falcon family of rockets. In 2015, we established at least a
10-year lead over the industry by successfully landing our first Falcon 9
booster back from space before anyone else. Space flight that historically
cost billions per launch now costs in the tens of millions, fundamentally
reducing the cost of space access and providing the opportunity to build new
enterprises in space.
• Connectivity. Since activating service for customers in 2020, Starlink has
rapidly expanded global access to high-speed internet, prioritizing
underserved rural and remote communities worldwide. While building terrestrial
networks in such communities can be prohibitively expensive, Starlink is
capable of delivering broadband connectivity anywhere on Earth with just a
Starlink Kit. As of March 31, 2026, we had approximately 9,600 Starlink
broadband and mobile satellites in Low-Earth Orbit, operating the world’s most
advanced broadband constellation providing internet connectivity to
approximately 10.3 million Starlink Subscribers across 164 countries,
territories, and other markets. In January 2024, we also began deploying our
Starlink Mobile constellation that utilizes separate Starlink satellites with
satellite-to-mobile capabilities, substantially reducing mobile “dead zones”
around the world. As of March 31, 2026, our dedicated satellite-to- mobile
constellation of approximately 650 V1 Mobile satellites provides
satellite-to-mobile data, over-the-top voice, and messaging services to
approximately 7.4 million monthly unique devices across approximately 30
countries.
• AI. We were the first company to deploy a coherent gigawatt-scale AI training
cluster. For complex reasoning and agentic workloads, compute is directly
correlated with the quality of intelligence and task completion speed. In
under two years, we have established a dual advantage in both cost efficiency
and deployment speed at scale. By owning the compute infrastructure and
vertically integrating across the full AI stack, we can train and iterate
our frontier models at lower cost and higher velocity and accelerate
development cycles. This eliminates external bottlenecks and drives rapid,
continuous improvements in model performance. We believe this combination of
our state-of-the-art AI compute infrastructure, our truth-seeking frontier
model, and our access to real-time data on X creates a significant strategic
advantage. Our integrated AI platforms across Grok and X have over 1.3 billion
supported accounts active in the last twelve months ended March 31, 2026,
including approximately 550 million MAUs and generating approximately 350
million daily posts. Of our MAUs, we had approximately 117 million MAUs that
used Grok’s AI features as of March 31, 2026. Grok’s deep integration with X
enables freshness, relevance, and contextual awareness that we believe is a
competitive differentiator. This direct, real-time access to the information
and human discourse on X enhances Grok’s truth-seeking capabilities by
grounding outputs in up-to-date knowledge and diverse viewpoints. As a result,
we believe Grok can deliver the most objective and relevant insights and best
serve high-frequency, high-value use cases across consumer and enterprise AI
applications.
We have created distinct new markets across the space, connectivity, and AI
industries by building the integrated hardware and software infrastructure of
the future and by combining our broad range of capabilities. For example,
SpaceX’s recent acquisition of xAI unites SpaceX’s launch capabilities and
global connectivity network with xAI’s AI development capabilities.
Specifically, we believe SpaceX’s reusable rockets, scaled satellite
manufacturing, and operational expertise can enable the cost-effective and rapid
deployment of massive AI compute satellite constellations—with potentially
millions of satellites—for orbital data centers. We believe these AI compute
satellites in Sun-synchronous orbit will be able to handle energy-intensive AI
workloads, such as inference demand, at far greater scale and efficiency than
terrestrial alternatives, with Starlink providing low-latency, global
connectivity linking these orbital AI systems to people around the world and
delivering real-time intelligence. We expect to begin deploying our orbital AI
compute satellites as early as 2028.
Our financial results reflect the strength of our operating model and our
ability to create and scale multiple new businesses:
• For the three months ended March 31, 2026, we generated revenue on a
consolidated basis of $4,694 million, loss from operations of $(1,943) million
and Adjusted EBITDA of $1,127 million. In 2025, we generated revenue on a
consolidated basis of $18,674 million, loss from operations of $(2,589)
million and Adjusted EBITDA of $6,584 million. Our Space and Connectivity
segments contributed the substantial majority of our consolidated revenue in
the three months ended March 31, 2026 and the year ended December 31, 2025,
demonstrating the benefits of their scale and operating leverage in our
vertically integrated business model;
• For the three months ended March 31, 2026, our Space segment generated revenue
of $619 million, loss from operations of $(662) million, and Segment Adjusted
EBITDA of $(351) million. In 2025, our Space segment generated revenue of
$4,086 million, loss from operations of $(657) million, and Segment Adjusted
EBITDA of $653 million. Additionally, our Space segment funded $930 million
and $3,004 million in research and development expense during the three months
ended March 31, 2026 and the year ended December 31, 2025, respectively, for
our next-generation Starship launch vehicle program. Starship is designed to
enable a step- function change in our launch capability across reusability,
payload capacity, and launch cadence, and is the key enabler of our long-term
growth strategy by unlocking entirely new categories of missions;
• For the three months ended March 31, 2026, our Connectivity segment generated
revenue of $3,257 million, income from operations of $1,188 million, and
Segment Adjusted EBITDA of $2,087 million. Our Connectivity segment, primarily
driven by Starlink, generated revenue of $11,387 million, income from
operations of $4,423 million, and Segment Adjusted EBITDA of $7,168 million in
2025, representing year-over-year growth of 49.8%, 120.4%, and 86.2%,
respectively, benefiting from subscriber growth, increasing enterprise
adoption, and continued improvement in network efficiency;
• In our newly acquired AI segment, we plan to prioritize growth and investment
to capture significant opportunities in AI applications and compute
infrastructure. For the three months ended March 31, 2026, our AI segment
generated revenue of $818 million, loss from operations of $(2,469) million,
and Segment Adjusted EBITDA of $(609) million. In 2025, our AI segment
generated revenue of $3,201 million, loss from operations of $(6,355) million,
and Segment Adjusted EBITDA of $(1,237) million, reflecting its earlier stage
of development and continued investments to support long-term growth
opportunities in AI; and
• For the three months ended March 31, 2026, capital expenditures for our Space
segment was $1,052 million, for our Connectivity segment was $1,332 million
and for our AI segment was $7,723 million. In 2025, capital expenditures for
our Space segment was $3,832 million, for our Connectivity segment was $4,178
million and for our AI segment was $12,727 million.
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We were founded and incorporated as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., a
Delaware corporation, on March 14, 2002 and reincorporated as a Texas
corporation on February 14, 2024. Our principal executive offices are located at
1 Rocket Road, Starbase, Texas 78521. Our telephone number:(310) 363-6000. Our
website address is www.spacex.com.