SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbital launch next week

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SpaceX has declared its Starship vehicle ready for an orbital launch scheduled for next week. Achieving orbit would represent a significant milestone for the company's fully reusable rocket system.

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An orbital Starship flight would demonstrate progress toward SpaceX's goal of a fully reusable heavy-lift launch system.

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The chart totals every SEC-reported transaction by month and share count, separating informative purchases and sales from non-informative awards, vesting, exercises, tax withholding and transfers. Records without a reported price remain included. Only informative purchases and sales affect the conservative sentiment signal.

Recent SEC-reported share and derivative transactions in SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

Insider activity sentiment

Neutral

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0 discretionary purchases · 0 discretionary sales

Confidence: Low

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Insiders	Activity	Description	Shares	Avg. price / share	Est. value	Trade date
DirectorGracias Antonio J.	Non-informative sell	Class A Common StockOther SEC-reported transaction (J)	42,790,223	—	—	Sep 11, 2026
CEO, CTO & ChairmanMusk Elon	Non-informative buy	Exercise or conversion; not an open-market trade

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Insiders	Activity	Description	Shares	Avg. price / share	Est. value	Trade date
CEO, CTO & ChairmanMusk Elon	Informative sell	Class A Common StockOpen-market or private transaction (S)	11,390	$105.318	$1,199,572	Apr 2, 2026
CEO, CTO & ChairmanMusk Elon	Non-informative sell

As filed with the SEC. Estimated value is shown only for purchases or sales with a positive reported transaction price; awards, gifts and similar activity are not assigned an assumed market value. Amendments may change the record. This is not investment advice.

Short interest

Open short positions reported twice monthly; this is not daily short-sale volume.

Earnings

Recent reported earnings per share compared with the analyst consensus available from Nasdaq.

Fiscal quarter	Reported	EPS	Consensus	Surprise
Jun 2026	Aug 4, 2026	-0.09	-0.26	+65.38%

Source: Nasdaq

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Owner	Activity	Change	Shares held	Value (thousands)	Reported
Valor Management Llc	Buy	503,414,530 (New)	503,414,530	$74,580,863	6/30/2026
Fmr Llc	Buy	302,555,831 (New)	302,555,831	$44,823,646	6/30/2026
Vy Capital Management Co. Ltd.	Buy	271,811,500 (New)	271,811,500	$40,268,874	6/30/2026
Gigafund Management Company, Llc	Buy	171,826,745 (New)	171,826,745	$25,456,132	6/30/2026
Public Investment Fund	Buy	154,146,835 (New)	154,146,835	$22,836,854	6/30/2026
Bamco Inc /Ny/	Buy	145,775,147 (New)	145,775,147	$21,596,588	6/30/2026
D1 Capital Partners L.P.	Buy	126,042,232 (New)	126,042,232	$18,673,157	6/30/2026
Sc Us (Ttgp), Ltd.	Buy	122,519,145 (New)	122,519,145	$18,151,211	6/30/2026
Capricorn Investment Group Llc	Buy	120,801,820 (New)	120,801,820	$17,896,790	6/30/2026
Darsana Capital Partners Lp	Buy	101,461,915 (New)	101,461,915	$15,031,583	6/30/2026
A16z Capital Management, L.L.C.	Buy	74,855,020 (New)	74,855,020	$11,089,771	6/30/2026
Baillie Gifford & Co	Buy	51,397,806 (New)	51,397,806	$7,614,585	6/30/2026

Settlement date	Short interest	Avg. daily volume	Change vs. previous report	Days to cover
Aug 31, 2026	173,619,060	73,607,052	-5.84%	2.36
Aug 14, 2026	184,389,672	154,196,358	-11.26%	1.20
Jul 31, 2026	207,781,764	67,218,193	+25.89%	3.09
Jul 15, 2026	165,048,407	75,797,552	+48.29%	2.18
Jun 30, 2026	111,298,613	151,628,172	+377.04%	1.00
Jun 15, 2026	23,331,117	69,191,993	—	1.00

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