{"id":1012078,"date":"2026-06-04T08:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012078"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:02:12","slug":"spacex-the-sprawling-company-targeting-the-stars-mars-and-an-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/spacex-the-sprawling-company-targeting-the-stars-mars-and-an-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, the sprawling company targeting the stars, Mars and an IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the lofty goal of ferrying humans to Mars and setting up colonies on the neighboring planet. <\/p>\n<p>Today the rocket company is sprawling &#8212; a major NASA contractor and satellite internet provider, it has also absorbed Musk&#8217;s AI startup, which owns the social media site formerly called Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>With a regulatory filing on Wednesday, the rocket and tech company announced it was aiming for liftoff of the largest IPO in history, raising $75 billion on a total valuation of $1.77 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the lofty goal of ferrying humans to Mars and setting up colonies on the neighboring planet. Today the rocket company is sprawling &#8212; a major NASA contractor and satellite internet provider, it has also absorbed Musk&#8217;s AI startup, which owns the social media site formerly called Twitter. With a regulatory filing on Wednesday, the rocket and tech company announced it was aiming for liftoff of the largest IPO in history, raising $75 billion on a total valuation of $1.77 trillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012102,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012078\/revisions\/1012102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}