Elon Musk's SpaceX is doing loads of the heavy lifting – and it's hard to consider that the aerospace giant has already launched greater than 100 rockets this 12 months alone.

SpaceX launched twice early Tuesday, Oct. 15 — first from Florida after which from California. The Florida launch – SpaceX's No. 100 rocket this 12 months – took place at 2:10 a.m. Eastern Time (11:10 p.m. Pacific Time) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, followed two hours and 11 minutes later by the launch of rocket No 101 at 1:21 a.m. Pacific time from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc.

Both launches were Falcon 9 rockets, and each first stage boosters returned safely to Earth.

WATCH THE LAUNCH: SpaceX's a hundred and first launch in 2024 from Vandenberg Space Force Base

The two launches capped a successful week for SpaceX:

– A Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper probe – en path to Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa – launched on Monday, October 14th

– A Starship rocket accomplished a successful test flight on Sunday, October thirteenth

Nvidia Corp. was already the Most worthy semiconductor company on the earth. Now it’s the primary computer chip company ever to have a market capitalization of three trillion dollars.

Shares of the Santa Clara, California-based company have gained about 147 percent this yr, adding about $1.8 trillion, as insatiable demand for its chips utilized in artificial intelligence soars. On Wednesday, shares rose 5.2 percent to shut at a record $1,224.40, pushing its market value above $3 trillion and overtaking Apple Inc.

The last time Nvidia was value greater than Apple was in 2002, five years before the discharge of the primary iPhone. At the time, each corporations were value lower than $10 billion each.

Nvidia shows no signs of slowing down or letting its competitors catch up. The company's CEO, Jensen Huang, said the corporate plans to enhance its so-called AI accelerators yearly. Wednesday's stock gain added greater than $5 billion to his wealth, to $107.4 billion, in line with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

“We are seeing this fundamental shift in the first innings,” said Angelo Zino, senior equity analyst at CFRA Research.

After the CEO's keynote, Zino said he liked “the improved visibility” and saw “stronger momentum on the GPU/CPU/network side driving consensus estimates higher.”

The company has arguably been the most important beneficiary of an enormous flood of investment in AI that has earned it a spot within the race for the title of the world's Most worthy company. The chipmaker still trails Microsoft Corp. by market capitalization, but with its stock prices rising, Wall Street thinks it's only a matter of time before Nvidia overtakes it.

Apple has struggled this yr because the tech giant's shares were pressured by concerns about slowing iPhone demand in China and a nice from the European Union. The company's shares recently moved into positive territory for 2024 as investor sentiment toward the iPhone maker slowly improves.

– With support from Bre Bradham.

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