SpaceX Achieves 500th Booster Landing Milestone While Preparing for Potential $1.75 Trillion IPO Filing

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SpaceX celebrates its 500th booster landing milestone while preparing for a potential $1.75 trillion IPO filing.

SpaceX continues its blistering launch cadence with a successful Starlink mission yesterday, March 26, launching 25 satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Spaceflight Now reports the Falcon 9's Starlink 17-17 mission lifted off at 4:03 p.m. PDT from Space Launch Complex 4E, delayed two days from its original schedule, with booster B1081 nailing its 23rd flight and landing on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You just 8.5 minutes after liftoff—the company's 591st booster recovery overall. National Today confirms this marked Vandenberg's 20th launch of 2026, deploying the satellites over an hour into flight on a southerly trajectory. Hotter still, SpaceX has now surpassed 500 successful rocket landings, a milestone Elon Musk confirmed on X early today, March 27. Basenor notes Falcon family boosters hit 589 landings out of 602 attempts—a staggering 97.8% success rate—with the 500th on booster B1069's 27th flight carrying 28 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center. The real buzz swirls around a massive IPO: The Information reports SpaceX could file its prospectus with regulators this week or early next, eyeing a $75 billion raise that would eclipse Saudi…

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Host: Elon Musk

Topics covered

• SpaceX
• rocket landings
• IPO
• satellite launch
• Falcon 9
• Elon Musk
• Gwynne Shotwell

Keywords

• SpaceX
• booster landing
• Falcon 9
• IPO
• Starlink
• Elon Musk
• Gwynne Shotwell
• rocket launch
• satellites
• Vandenberg

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Organizations: SpaceX, Vandenberg Space Force Base, Falcon 9, Of Course I Still Love You, National Today, Falcon, Kennedy Space Center, Time Magazine, xAI, Economic Times

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