FEATURE Tech was getting hit again on Friday as investors carried on selling chip makers and other artificial-intelligence stocks. Futures tracking the slumped 1.8%. The and were both also on track to open lower.
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SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) shares declined around 4% in pre-market trading on Friday after the company halted the 13th test flight of its Starship rocket only minutes before its scheduled launch from Texas. Engine issue forces last-minute launch cancellationChief Executive Elon Musk said the launch was automatically aborted after several of Starship’s engines failed to ignite properly.
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Black rejected speculation that SpaceX could acquire Tesla, saying Musk’s voting control does not remove SpaceX’s fiduciary duties.
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Shares of SpaceX fell in after-hours trading Thursday after the company wasn’t able to launch its Starship rocket on a key test flight. SpaceX was proceeding toward the launch at 6:45 p.m. ET from its site near Brownsville, Texas, with its countdown clock ticking down. Then, the mission was aborted just as the Starship booster engines were supposed to start firing away, according to a company livestream.
Investors have closely followed SpaceX since its record IPO.

The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses.
The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses.
The Nasdaq tumbled on Sandisk, Micron, other AI stocks, but regional banks and transports rose. SpaceX has a big launch coming.
When Moritz was at Sequoia, he helped the firm invest in mega home runs like PayPal, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, and Google. Now, he says, “You can never have enough passports.”
SpaceX tests Starship for the 13th time on Thursday. The rocket-launch system is the “flywheel” that drives value for SpaceX, says RBC’s Ken Herbert.
Google stock fell amid a report the internet giant is behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, as rivals gain momentum.
SpaceX shares closed below their $135 IPO price for the first time, marking a sharp decline from the record high posted soon after the stock started trading last month.
Flight 13 could advance Starship development and support future orbital missions, lunar contracts and Starlink expansion.