SpaceX has raised $1.68 billion through equity financing, the Elon Musk-founded rocket maker said in a regulatory filing.

Comes as SpaceX invests heavily in its Starship rocket development and Starlink broadband internet satellite constellation.

The fresh financing round was disclosed in securities filings on Monday.

SpaceX has raised $1.68 billion through value funding, the Elon Musk-established rocket producer said in an administrative recording on Monday.

The crisp funding round, in which the organization hoped to raise $1.725 billion, was revealed in protections filings on Monday and comes as SpaceX puts vigorously into its Starship rocket improvement and Starlink broadband web satellite heavenly body.

SpaceX prior in the day got hotly-anticipated freedom from the Federal Aviation Administration that its Boca Chica, Texas, Starship improvement site had no critical ecological effect, clearing an obstacle that had added to postpones in the Mars rocket’s turn of events.

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The FAA forced north of 75 circumstances on the organization, a result SpaceX saw as “one bit nearer to the principal orbital flight trial of Starship,” the organization composed on Twitter, alluding to Starship’s crucial advancement achievement of arriving at space interestingly.

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite unit has sent off nearly 2,600 satellites to space starting around 2019 as it intends to give broadband web around the world.