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Nasdaq Trading Debut
SpaceX shares begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange, allowing retail and institutional investors to trade the stock.
IPO Priced at $135 per Share
The offering of 555.6 million shares raises $75 billion, valuing SpaceX at $1.77 trillion.
Starship 12th Test Flight
SpaceX successfully conducts the twelfth test flight of its next-generation Starship rocket.
The record $75 billion SpaceX IPO gives the aerospace leader unprecedented capital to build orbital data centers, a lunar factory, and mount Mars expeditions, all while resetting industry valuations and competitive dynamics.
This page surfaces every story mentioning CNBC across our space & defense coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running space & defense beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
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| Story count | Number of distinct stories where CNBC was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |