Echo Wang and Manya SainiMay 21, 2026 – 6.55amSpaceX took the wraps off its IPO filing on Wednesday (Thursday AEST), opening the books of the company that has already revolutionised rocket technology, with even larger ambitions to colonise Mars and build AI data centres in space.The listing is poised to become the first trillion-dollar U.S. market debut and could set the stage for a number of monumental IPOs in coming months, among them potentially technology giants OpenAI and Anthropic. The sale would immediately cement SpaceX as one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded companies, the second in Elon Musk’s sprawling business empire to surpass $US1 trillion in market value.ReutersSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles