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SpaceX is planning to go public in mid-June, with Elon Musk choosing the date to match up with an unusual sky event and his own birthday, according to five sources close to the matter. The rocket company wants to time its stock market debut with a rare planetary alignment when Jupiter and Venus will appear extremely close together for the first time in over three years.

The company hopes to bring in up to $50 billion through the offering, which would put its total worth at around $1.5 trillion. If successful, this would break records as the biggest initial public offering ever seen, easily beating the $29 billion that Saudi Aramco raised back in 2019. However, sources warn these numbers could still change before any final decisions are made.

Planetary alignment and personal significance

The Financial Times reported last week that SpaceX has selected Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley to handle the major deal.

During June 8 and 9, Jupiter and Venus will sit “within a little more than 1 degree of each other in the sky, about the width of a thumb held at arm’s length,” The Planetary Society explained. Mercury will join them in a diagonal line several days afterward.

Musk’s birthday falls on June 28, giving him another reason to pick that month for the listing, the sources said.

This unusual scheduling shows how much Musk personally shapes SpaceX’s big decisions. The billionaire’s own views and interests often guide the company’s direction, from setting aggressive production goals to using management styles that break from tradition.

Musk has made jokes about business choices before. Back in 2018, he posted on social media about taking Tesla private at $420 per share. Many people thought the number referred to April 20, a date linked to marijuana culture.

More recently, after arguing online about Ryanair purchasing Starlink internet service for its aircraft, Musk said this month he might buy the low-cost airline and replace its boss Michael O’Leary with someone named Ryan.

Concerns over timeline and funding goals

Not everyone thinks a June launch makes sense. Some bankers and investors say the schedule seems too rushed. They point out that SpaceX still needs to submit a Form S-1 document to the Securities and Exchange Commission announcing its plan to list shares. The company also needs to organize a worldwide roadshow to pitch the stock to potential buyers.

Market conditions add more uncertainty. President Donald Trump keeps threatening new tariffs and trying to influence Federal Reserve decisions on interest rates, making it harder to predict how investors will respond, these sources noted.

Bret Johnsen, who serves as chief financial officer, has been meeting and video calling with current private investors since mid-December to discuss a possible mid-2026 public offering.

Both large institutions and regular individual investors are expected to show strong interest in buying SpaceX shares. These groups have not been able to purchase stock before because the company stayed private.

Musk wants to take SpaceX public partly because the company needs more money to build its Starship rocket system, which aims to reach Mars, some sources explained.

SpaceX has told investors it is working on technology to set up data centers in space. These would connect through its network of 9,400 Starlink satellites. Musk thinks this capability is necessary if his group of companies wants to compete in artificial intelligence against rivals like Google and OpenAI.

In December, the rocket company discussed a private share sale that would have valued it at $800 billion. This represented more than double its earlier value of nearly $400 billion.

Last year, SpaceX put $2 billion into xAI, another business owned by Musk. He combined xAI with social media platform X in March. The billionaire has also mentioned wanting his electric car company Tesla to invest money in xAI.

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是谁买走你的比特币？
昨天我们说了不丹的故事。
一个小王国，用水电站挖了13,000枚比特币，然后18个月卖掉了70%。
今天说另一个故事。
SpaceX，马斯克的火箭公司，持有8,285枚比特币，价值约6亿美元，放在Coinbase Prime托管。
最新财务数据显示，SpaceX从$80亿盈利转为近$50亿亏损，原因是收购xAI。
一枚比特币没卖。
这两个故事放在一起，说明了一件事：持有比特币的人，卖不卖，和亏多少钱没有关系。
不丹卖，是因为他们需要把资产变成财政收入。他们不是在看空，他们是在兑现。这是主权财富基金的正常逻辑。
SpaceX不卖，是因为马斯克把比特币当成资产负债表上的一个长期配置。公司亏钱了，但比特币不是用来救急的，它有自己的位置。
同样是非金融主业的公司，同样持有大量比特币，面对压力的反应完全不同。
这背后是两种完全不同的持有逻辑。
一种是"我持有比特币，是因为它涨了我可以卖"。另一种是"我持有比特币，是因为我相信它是什么"。
前者在压力下会卖。后者不会。
现在市场里，这两种人都有。链上数据显示，卖方正在耗尽——已实现亏损从2月份的每天20亿美元，降到了现在的每天4亿美元。愿意在亏损状态下卖出的人越来越少。
剩下的，大概率是第二种。