A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. The first stage then made the company's 550th landing.

Can you buy SpaceX stock? Several recent reports have suggested that billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company is planning to go public sometime in 2026.

Theoretically, Chinese rockets based on the Soyuz design might carry astronauts (or cosmonauts, or Chinese taikonauts) to ISS. But current U.S. law forbids Chinese participation in the ISS project, so that's probably a no-go.

SpaceX is planning to raise tens of billions of dollars through an initial public offering next year, multiple outlets have reported, and Ars can confirm. This represents a major change in thinking from the world’s leading space company and its founder, Elon Musk.

Social media star Denise Ivonne Jarvis Gongora — who was known for her extreme plastic surgeries — died after falling from the ninth-floor balcony of a rented condo in Phuket, Thailand on Tuesday, December 9, the Daily Mail reported via Phuket News. The Mexican-Canadian citizen was 33. Gongora, who went by Mary Magdalene online, underwent […]

SpaceX, which has prominent operations from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base, may make its initial public offering in 2026, reports say.

The 'Residential 100Mbps' plan seems to have been dropped from Starlink's US site, although it's still available for users in Australia and Canada.