SpaceX Says It’s Sparking One Of Galaxy’s Most Advanced Civilizations

BusinessAerospace & DefenseSpaceX Says It’s Sparking One Of Galaxy’s Most Advanced CivilizationsByKevin Holden Platt,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Holden Platt writes on space defense, SpaceX, ISS, Space War I Follow AuthorMay 31, 2026, 08:07pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.One of the most fantastical claims SpaceX is making during the countdown toward a share offering is that it is helping create one of the most advanced civilizations across the Milky Way. . (Image by: QAI Publishing/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesOne of the most fantastical claims SpaceX is making during the countdown toward an initial public offering of shares is that it is helping create one of the most advanced civilizations across the Milky Way.Because that extraordinary claim is woven into SpaceX’s IPO application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, says a leading space sector scholar, there’s a remote chance that SEC regulators could investigate that section of the filing.Elon Musk, founder of what has become the world’s first independent space superpower, lofted that claim for the first time in a signed mission statement he published on the SpaceX website, on the eve of filing for the IPO.“SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious … innovation engine on (and off) Earth,” he boosted, “with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform.” SpaceX has become the world's first independent space superpower. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesMORE FOR YOUSpaceX’s newly forged alliance of leading-edge spacecraft and AI agents, Musk suggested, would power its launch of an astounding super-armada of satellites."Launching a constellation of a mi...