Collapsing electric-vehicle sales, political fallout and an AI chatbot publishing anti-Semitic posts — much of Elon Musk’s business empire is in disarray.

SpaceX sent up its Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center as it sent up more than 20 Starlink satellites on Monday, April 28, 2025.

The Starlink company is owned by SpaceX. Dr. Jonathan McDowell, of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been tracking Starlink satellites.