Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SPCX) surged 6.19% to $157.24 on Friday, capping a week of successful launches across the company's entire flight lineup. The stock gained $9.17 and moved sharply higher from below the $150 level during the session.

The advance followed a run of missions involving Starship, Falcon 9, Dragon, Falcon Heavy, NASA, Google, and Starlink. Over several days, SpaceX flew astronauts toward the International Space Station, delivered a Google artificial intelligence experiment to orbit, and deployed a new generation of Starlink satellites while operating every major vehicle in its fleet.

SpaceX Sends NASA Crew-13 Toward the ISS

On Thursday, SpaceX launched NASA's Crew-13 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket carried the Crew Dragon spacecraft Grace toward the International Space Station with four crew members aboard, all of whom will remain on the orbital laboratory for about six months.

NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney flew alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, while Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk completed the crew for the long-duration mission. Together, the four astronauts will support Expedition 75 operations and research aboard the station.

The launch added another crewed flight to SpaceX's growing record of NASA transportation services. SpaceX developed Crew Dragon under NASA's Commercial Crew Program to fly astronauts to orbit on a regular basis, and the company now conducts routine human spaceflight missions from Florida using Falcon 9 and Dragon.

Google's Project Suncatcher Rides to Orbit

Also on Thursday, SpaceX carried Google's Project Suncatcher satellite into orbit aboard its Transporter-18 rideshare mission. Google built the prototype to test whether large-scale artificial intelligence computing can operate effectively in space. The experiment will examine Google's tensor processing units under conditions found outside Earth's atmosphere.

Once the satellite reaches planned orbital environment, Google plans to study how its TPUs perform there. The project is intended to give Google data on hardware performance, energy use, communication, and computing beyond terrestrial data centers.

SpaceX provided the launch service through its established Transporter program for smaller satellites. Transporter missions allow multiple customers to place spacecraft into orbit during a single Falcon 9 launch, and the rideshare program has served commercial companies, governments, universities, and research groups. As a result, it has expanded Falcon 9's role across commercial and scientific satellite missions.

Starship Deploys 26 Starlink V3 Satellites

Earlier in the week, SpaceX placed Starship into Earth orbit and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, completing the deployment despite losing one engine during its ascent. The flight marked another major test for SpaceX's largest and most powerful launch system.

Starship remains central to SpaceX's plans for expanding the Starlink satellite internet network. The vehicle can carry significantly more payload than Falcon 9 on individual missions, so successful Starship operations could support larger Starlink deployments as SpaceX expands network capacity. Starlink represents SpaceX's largest operating business and depends on regular launches to maintain its satellite constellation.

Alongside the Crew-13, Transporter-18, and Starship flights, SpaceX also operated Dragon, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy during the busy week. The launches demonstrated activity across the company's human spaceflight, satellite, rideshare, and Starlink operations.

The week's missions now hand off to work that extends well beyond launch day. The Crew-13 astronauts are set to spend roughly six months supporting Expedition 75 aboard the station, while Google's next step is to collect data on how its TPUs handle the orbital environment once Suncatcher reaches it — both direct follow-ons to the vehicles SpaceX flew during this stretch.