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SpaceX stock rose on Friday after the company's rockets successfully sent humans to the International Space Statin (ISS) and a Google satellite into orbit.
four astronauts to the ISS, sending NASA's Crew-13 mission aloft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Also on Thursday, Google's Project Suncatcher — a moonshot satellite prototype aimed at testing whether AI computing can be done at scale in space —Now in orbit, Google will conduct research on how Google's tensor processing units, or TPUs, perform in space.is"designed to gather in-orbit data on how our TPUs handle the physical stress of spaceflight and the radiation and thermal extremes of space.
" A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA's Crew-13 lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 01, 2026 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Earlier in the week, SpaceX put Starship — its largest and most powerful rocket —and deployed all 26 Starlink V3 satellites on board, despite an engine going out during ascent.
Starlink is SpaceX's largest business, and a working Starship is central to how the company plans to expand the network's capacity and reduce the cost of launching each satellite into orbit.
"What an extraordinary week for SpaceX! We launched our quiver of space vehicles: Starship, Dragon, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy," SpaceX senior vice president of Falcon and Dragon Jon Edwards
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