SpaceX raised the funds at $419.99 a share and the latest
funding round represents a jump of about 60% in the company's valuation from
its previous raise, which valued it at $46 billion, the report said.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for
comment.
The company had raised $1.9 billion in August in its largest
single fundraising round, according to PitchBook data.
A prototype of SpaceX's Starship rocket, the SN9, exploded
earlier this month during a landing attempt after a high-altitude test launch
in a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous test rocket.
The Starship SN9 prototype was a test model of the
heavy-lift rocket being developed by the company to carry humans and 100 tons
of cargo on future missions to the moon and Mars.
Earlier in February, Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla
revealed that it had bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon accept the
cryptocurrency as a form of payment for its cars.
A well-known supporter of cryptocurrencies, Musk has weighed
in regularly on the recent frenzy in retail trading, driving up prices of
meme-based digital currency dogecoin and shares of US video game chain
GameStop.
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