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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on 10 December triggered sonic booms heard across Santa Barbara and nearby counties. The deafening noise, measured at over 120 dBA, startled residents, including singer Charlie Puth, whose pregnant wife was left shaken.

Elon Musk said his leadership of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency was only “somewhat successful” and admitted he wouldn’t do it again, telling Katie Miller, “I don’t think so… instead of doing DOGE, I would have worked on my companies.”

SpaceX is reportedly preparing for what could become the largest IPO in history, targeting a valuation near $1.5 trillion and potentially raising more than $30–40 billion. With Starlink’s explosive growth, the Starship program accelerating, and new plans for space-based data centers, Elon Musk’s space company may be gearing up for a record-breaking Wall Street debut in 2026. In this video, we break down: SpaceX’s IPO timeline Why Starlink is driving massive valuation How the listing compares to Saudi Aramco’s $29B record Revenue projections for 2025–26 What this could mean for the future of space, markets, and global tech dominance.

SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, people familiar with the matter said, in a transaction that would make it the biggest listing of all time.

Billionaire Elon Musk believes SpaceX won contracts from NASA not because the rocket maker is subsidised by the government space agency, but because they “offered BOTH best product AND lowest cost”.

LandSpace's Zhuque-3 rocket failed to land during a historic attempt, marking a setback for China's commercial space ambitions. The company aims to improve reusable rocket technology amid growing competition with American firms like SpaceX.

Elon Musk discloses that his partner Shivon Zilis is half-Indian and their child's middle name is Sekhar, honouring Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Zilis, raised in Canada after being adopted, has four children with Musk, including twins and a daughter.

Elon Musk has four children with Shivon — twins Strider and Azure, a daughter Arcadia and son Seldon Lycurgus.

India and Japan are joining forces to build the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a groundbreaking astronomical instrument designed to hunt for signs of alien life, study black holes, and explore exoplanets. Discover how this mega-telescope could revolutionize our search for extraterrestrial life! In this video, we dive into the India-Japan collaboration on the TMT project – a 30-meter optical-infrared telescope that's three times larger than today's biggest observatories. Learn how its 500 hexagonal mirror segments work with nanometer precision to peer into the universe's deepest secrets, from the birth of galaxies to detecting chemical signatures of life on distant planets.