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#spacex

Our reusable vehicles will reenter Earth's atmosphere and fly over populated land for extended periods, which carries inherent risks to populations in the event of failure, such as structural breakup, loss of control, or debris dispersal.

SpaceX has established itself as an influential contractor for the US military, allowing the Pentagon access a proprietary intelligence-based satellite network dubbed Starshield. The related network of Starlink broadband satellite services has also played a major role in ongoing military conflict, with Ukrainian soldiers making use of thousands of Starlink terminals to bypass internet blackouts amid the country's war with Russia. But who gets to use which network, and what SpaceX is getting out of the agreement, remains a hotly contested subject.

NASA has filed a procurement notice announcing its intent to add six post-certification missions to SpaceX's existing Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract. The agency said it would order up to three of those missions immediately upon adding them to the contract, with the remaining three available as needed through the end of the International Space Station's planned operations in 2030.

Extraterrestrial Liability: The filing explicitly warns investors that Martian colonization will require massive amounts of capital and may not see a return on investment for decades, if ever.

In its S-1 filing, SpaceX said that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 for access to SpaceX's AI training centers at Colossus I and Colossus II. That's $15 billion annually, or nearly double the $18.7 billion in revenue that SpaceX reported in all of 2025.