Squiz Shortcuts: The SpaceX journey

SpaceX has gone from a scrappy rocket startup to the biggest launch provider on the planet, a telco giant, an AI player, and the record holder for the most valuable IPO of all time. And it all comes down to one idea: rockets you can fly again and again. So in this Squiz Shortcut, we'll take a look at how reusable rockets changed everything, what Starlink and Starship actually are, and why Wall Street thinks SpaceX is worth so much…

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Listening: This episode of Josh Szeps' podcast Uncomfortable Conversations with Anthony Colangelo goes into the story of SpaceX in more detail, and covers off what NASA's up to, and how China and the US are racing back to the Moon.

Reading: Space journalist Eric Berger’s book Liftoff, all about the Falcon 1 and the SpaceX team that got it off the ground.

Watching: The moment SpaceX caught the super heavy booster with mechanical ‘chopsticks’ for the first time in the Starship program back in 2024. It was a huge achievement for the company…

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