SpaceX Goes Public: Everything You Need to Know Post-IPO

SpaceX has drawn media, investor and public attention for years — interest fueled by the company’s reusable rocket launches, the rise of the Starlink satellite network and, of course, its founder and CEO Elon Musk.

But in its 24-year history, nothing compares to its initial public offering. Everyone seemed interested — perhaps because of the sheer size of the IPO. The company priced its 555.6 million shares at $135 each to raise $75 billion, making it the largest IPO in history and making Musk the world’s first billionaire.

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX’s inception, struggles and successes since its early days. And we’re here for what happens next. This is your landing page for all related SpaceX IPO news, including notable updates now that the company is public.

SpaceX is now public. What’s next?

In its first full day of trading, SpaceX shares soared even higher. From 2:30 p.m. ET, SpaceX shares were up more than 15% at $186.15.

The latest on SpaceX’s IPO

Shares of SpaceX opened June 12 at $150 on the public Nasdaq, up 11% for the most anticipated debut in history. And it kept going up. Stocks continued to rise as well. In midday trading, SpaceX shares were up 30%. Shares of SpaceX closed at $160.95, up 19%.

There was a high volume of trading, as expected. Robinhood said it has seen “record traffic on its trading platform in the hours following SpaceX’s historic debut on the public markets.

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell was interviewed by CNBC on June 12, and among the many interesting comments she made, here’s one that might catch the attention of Tesla shareholders. At one point in the interview, Shotwell said that “a merger between SpaceX and Tesla might make Elon’s life a little easier.”

Among the winners are the banks, which have brought about 500 million dollars in total fees. The big winners are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, according to the WSJ.

Musk took to X, the social media company he owns, to share his appreciation for SpaceX employees as the stock soared. “I love the incredible people of SpaceX beyond words” he wrote on Friday afternoon. He also reposted a number of posts related to the SpaceX IPO, including a photo of all the insiders wearing green shoes in what appears to be a nod to the ‘green shoe option’. This is a provision in an IPO underwriting agreement that allows the underwriters to sell up to 15% more shares than originally planned if demand is high.

To take a deeper look at what happened and all the far-reaching implications of SpaceX now being a publicly traded company, Senior Reporter Sean O’Kane and AI Editor Russell Brandom sat down for a special episode of the Equity podcast, which you can listen to here or via your podcast player of choice or queue it up on YouTube here.

How to watch the SpaceX IPO

With such a large offering, there’s a lot of financial machinery going on behind the scenes — so the first question is when does the stock hit the market to start trading. SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq and you can see the official Nasdaq listing herewhich will have the record price once it exists. Nasdaq also has video from the SpaceX crew ringing the bellif that’s your thing.

But price is only part of the picture. For the most up-to-date information, your best bet is still financial media like Bloomberg and CNBCboth have live blogs up and running and will have close coverage of any hiccups that occur in moving the stock to market.

SpaceX’s IPO, by the numbers

Here we look at some of the biggest numbers, trailing numbers and eye-popping amounts that make up the company’s S-1 filing.

For example, SpaceX lost $4.9 billion on revenue of more than $18 billion in 2025. That’s just a fraction of the more than $37 billion lost since SpaceX was founded.

As CEO, Elon Musk holds approximately 85.1% of the company’s voting power. You can read more about that in the next “Who’s Winning and Who’s Not” section — and we’ll continue to throw in interesting numbers here.

Here’s another number that caught our eye… 4,400. This is how many SpaceX employees could become millionaires, according to the NYT.

Elon Musk Can’t Hear You Over the Sound of His $1.75 Trillion IPO: The Equity podcast weighs in on the IPO.

Who wins and who doesn’t

SpaceX is the world’s largest IPO in history, and it means a big payday for some investors, employees, and of course Elon Musk.

Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO: SpaceX’s IPO boosted Musk’s paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he’s more hated — and powerful — than ever.

How Elon Musk will increase his power through the SpaceX IPO: Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have monarchical control over the publicly traded version of SpaceX — control that far exceeds what other tech founders enjoy.

Who will benefit most from SpaceX’s IPO? Mainly Elon — and a few of his inner circle: Elon Musk has the largest stake in SpaceX by billions of shares, but others will also gain. Here’s the rundown of who owns what.

SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their actual holdings until post-IPO lock-ups are lifted: After SpaceX makes its public debut, lower-tier SPV investors face hidden fees, long payment delays and the risk of fraud.

What’s in the S-1

The S-1 registration document gave the world an unprecedented look inside SpaceX, including its finances and various businesses. The S-1 continued to be amended as the IPO date approached, and we were on it. Here’s what we found.

SpaceX’s IPO filing is filled with AI bets, Starship dreams and Elon Musk at the center: SpaceX IPO content details a business dominated by its Starlink Internet satellite offering, more than $37 billion in losses, and future business prospects through its xAI division.

Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1: SpaceX’s IPO and Starship rocket test flight provided two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company’s boosters and its detractors.

SpaceX warns investors of future downsizing, adding fuel to Tesla merger rumours: The company added new language to its S-1, a warning to prospective investors that there could be a significant downgrade after going public.

Pre-IPO Offers and Events

Leading up to the IPO, SpaceX closed a series of deals, mostly selling off computers to shore up its balance sheet.

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for computing: Initial coverage of the Anthropic deal on May 20th.

How long is Anthropic’s lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary: Elon Musk continues to downplay the length of SpaceX’s contract with Anthropic.

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for computing: A Google spokesperson described the deal as a short-term deal to address unexpected demand for its recently launched artificial intelligence products.

This article was originally published at 10 am. ET, June 12, 2026. Updated with new coverage of SpaceX’s IPO, share price and other related events.