The space industry claims its economic impact, beyond the mysticism and symbolic weight that have traditionally surrounded it. "We have gone from planting flags to building markets, this is the great change," said the general director of Indra Space, Miguel Ángel Panduro, this Tuesday in Santander. The executive defended that "space has become a critical infrastructure for the economy" because it facilitates the operation of many other sectors, among which he highlighted the energy, logistics, and financial sectors.

On Friday, June 12, SpaceX began trading on the stock market for the first time. After a record theoretical valuation of $130 per share, the debut was spectacular: it opened at $149, reached a high of $176, and closed the session at $161, 19% above the initial price. With this valuation, it has become the seventh largest company in the world by market capitalization, exceeding $2 trillion.

The biggest stock market IPO in history makes Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. SpaceX, the tech mogul's space rocket and artificial intelligence company, has debuted on the stock market today, breaking all records by having already placed more than 555 million shares at an IPO price of $135 per share, which by the end of the session had soared 19%, to $161. With its IPO, the company aimed to raise more than $75 billion, and after its first session on the market, it has a valuation of over $2 trillion (2 trillion, in English).

Elon Musk, owner of X and founder of companies like SpaceX or Tesla, is one step away from becoming the first trillionaire in history, and would accumulate unprecedented levels of wealth. According to a report published this Thursday by the NGO Oxfam Intermón, the magnate of South African origin is on track to accumulate as much wealth as the entire poorest 46% of the world's population, the equivalent of about 3.8 billion people.

Elon Musk seeks to break down the doors of Wall Street. In an update to the IPO prospectus of his technology giant, SpaceX, the world's richest man has specified that it will issue 555 million shares at a unit price of $135. In this way, Musk's space and artificial intelligence insignia seeks to add about $75 billion to its capital, an amount that would consolidate it as the largest initial public offering (IPO, the technical name for a company's stock market debut) in history, surpassing that of the oil company Saudi Aramco in 2019, which raised just over $29 billion.

Elon Musk is preparing a new operation to shake up Wall Street. SpaceX, his aerospace company, revealed its IPO prospectus this Wednesday. Just hours after the judicial defeat against OpenAI founder Sam Altman, the richest man in the world seeks to achieve two unprecedented milestones: SpaceX's would be the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history, through which it hopes to raise around 80 billion dollars; and the firm would become the first in history to assault the market with a total valuation exceeding one trillion dollars.

Elon Musk's massive Starship has successfully completed its tenth test launch. The SpaceX rocket landed its booster, dubbed Super Heavy, softly in the Gulf of Mexico, and its upper body, the Starship, reached the Indian Ocean as planned.

This isn't the first time that rockets from SpaceX, Elon Musk's company, have had trouble taking off or exploded just a few meters from the ground. This time, however, one of them exploded while conducting ignition tests on the ground in preparation for a launch. Starship, which is located at the base of the billionaire's company.

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore's space adventure has come to an end, surrounded by political controversy. The two landed on the coast of Florida at 10:11 p.m. Tuesday, Spanish time, after months in space. The two astronauts "are not trapped" nor are they returning to Earth "on any rescue mission.", NASA has insisted on saying several times. But the fact is that Williams and Wilmore have spent nine months on the International Space Station (ISS), when their visit was scheduled to last only eight days. They went to test Boeing's new ship, but anomalies were detected in the device and it was decided that it should return empty to Earth, while they awaited a new passage back home. It took nine months.

A Starship rocket from billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX company has exploded in the air again early Friday morning, on its eighth test launch. The ship exploded minutes after taking off from Texas, after spinning out of control for a few moments due to an alleged engine failure. In the live broadcast, the blackout of some of the engines could be seen and SpaceX confirmed that control had been lost with the ship. The explosion has dispersed fiery trails over the skies of Florida and the Bahamas.

A Starship rocket from billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX company has exploded in mid-air again early Friday morning, on its eighth test launch. The ship exploded minutes after taking off from Texas, after spinning out of control for a few moments due to an alleged engine failure. In the live broadcast, the blackout of some of the engines could be seen and SpaceX confirmed that control of the ship had been lost. The explosion has dispersed fiery trails over the skies of Florida and the Bahamas.