SpaceX
Space launch, satellite communications, and defense technology company.
Overview
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, operates the Starlink broadband constellation and its government variant Starshield, and provides launch services for national security missions. The company has received over $22B in cumulative federal contracts and operates Starshield as a classified satellite network for the US Department of Defense, National Reconnaissance Office, and Space Force. SpaceX went public on Nasdaq in June 2026. In February 2026 SpaceX acquired xAI (developer of the Grok chatbot and owner of the X platform) in an all-stock merger, ahead of the June 2026 IPO; Roelof Botha, former managing partner at Sequoia Capital, joined SpaceX's board of directors as an independent director in June 2026.
Founders1
Investors2
DoD contracts10
- ContractNSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 Launch ProcurementSpaceX selected for National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 heavy-class missions.
- ContractSpace Data Network BackboneSpace Force contract for SpaceX space-based data transport network.
- ContractStarshield Satellite Services ContractSpace Force contract for Starshield secure satellite communications services.
- ContractDoD Starshield Services for UkrainePentagon contract for Starshield satellite communications in Ukraine.
- ContractLink 182 Space Communications ContractSpace Force contract for Link 182 satellite communications interoperability.
- ContractMissile Tracking Satellite Launch ServicesSpace Force contract for launch of prototype missile tracking satellites.
- ContractNRO Launch Services Task OrdersNational Reconnaissance Office launch task orders for Falcon 9.
- ContractNSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 Wave 1 Task OrdersInitial task orders for Space Force NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 launches.
- ContractNSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 Wave 2 Task OrdersSecond wave of NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 task orders for national security launches.
- ContractSB-AMTI (Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator)Space Force contract to SpaceX for threat-detection satellites, part of the Golden Dome missile-defense initiative.
EU / DoD programs1
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2 holders not shown in the chart — ownership undisclosed and not estimable.
Percentages marked ~ are not disclosed. Some are a generic VC-pattern model (founders/team weighted heaviest, option pool lightest, other holders evenly) sized to whatever's left undisclosed — a standard industry shape, not this company's actual cap table.
| Holder | Instrument | Ownership |
|---|---|---|
Elon Musk (Founder/CEO)Reinvested[3] | Class B (10:1 voting) | 84.4% combined voting power |
Antonio Gracias (Valor entities)New[3] | Class A | 6.7% |
Public float (IPO)New[3] | Class A | 4.2% |
Founders, directors & officers (ex-Musk)New | Class B / Class A | ~2.1% |
Other institutional investorsNew | Class A | ~2.1% |
Employees & former employeesReinvested | Class A | ~0.2% |
Treasury / unallocatedReinvested | Class A | ~0.2% |
Luke Nosek (Board)New[3] | Class A | - |
Gwynne Shotwell (President/COO)New[3] | Class A / Class B | - |
Sources 6
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