Elon Musk’s SpaceX is due to fly a Falcon 9 rocket later today from Cape Canaveral, sending 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The launch comes just weeks before the company’s IPO roadshow is expected to open, with bettors pricing in what may become the largest public offering in history.
Liftoff for the Starlink 10-38 mission is targeted for 1:35 p.m. ET, with a backup window stretching until 5:33 p.m. The Falcon 9 booster will land on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas hundreds of miles downrange.
Inside “Project Apex”
SpaceX held a three-day analyst meeting last week as part of preparations for the offering, which Reuters has reported is internally codenamed Project Apex.
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi and JPMorgan are leading the deal as active bookrunners, with a $75 billion raise targeted at …
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