Tesla Cybertrucks parked outside of a SpaceX installation in Starbase, Texas, on April 21. Most analysts expect the merger between Tesla and SpaceX will happen. | REUTERS

Oct 23, 2026

WASHINGTON – Elon Musk said this week that SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to study a merger of his two biggest companies.

The combination would be worth about $3.5 trillion and would be the largest corporate deal in history.

Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 to cut the cost of reaching space and one day bring humans to Mars.

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Source: The Japan Times · Alex Pigman, Thomas Urbain

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