SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says

SpaceX has shifted its focus from rocket development to becoming an infrastructure company, embracing AI to speed up work and automate tasks such as identifying foreign object debris. The company has accelerated adoption of AI tools, with employees using them to complete tasks in seconds to minutes that previously took hours or days. The Falcon 9 rocket, which has dominated global launch for a decade, is on the road to retirement. SpaceX's vice president of launch, Kiko Dontchev, says the company is building infrastructure on Earth, in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, and eventually on Mars.