SpaceX reveals plans for what could be biggest-ever initial public offering

Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning a massive initial public offering, potentially raising up to USD 75 billion to fund lunar and Mars missions despite the company's current billion-dollar losses.

The world's richest man announced plans Wednesday for one biggest sales of stock to the public ever for a space company currently losing billions of dollars year.

Documents filed on Wednesday show Elon Musk's SpaceX lost USD 2.6 billion from operations last year on USD 18.7 billion in revenue, and the losses kept piling up at the start of this year, too.

Still, the initial public offering is expected to rank among the largest ever, possibly surpassing the current title holder, Saudi Aramco, the oil giant that went public seven years ago.

The prospectus did not put a dollar figure on the amount Musk hoped to raise but various reports have put it at USD75 billion or so, a gusher that he is hoping will help to finance projects to put men on the moon and maybe some day Mars.

The initial offering could also make Musk, a major holder of SpaceX equity, the world's first trillionaire.