Overview
- Responding to a Tesla Owners Silicon Valley prompt, Musk said “Maybe next year” about placing a “literal Dogecoin on the literal moon.”
- The comment suggests a possible 2027 target and nudges expectations beyond prior projections for a mid‑ to late‑2026 launch.
- DOGE‑1 is a 40 kg CubeSat funded entirely in Dogecoin to gather lunar data, which a SpaceX vice president has framed as a crypto demonstration beyond Earth orbit.
- Originally slated for early 2022, the mission has been delayed repeatedly and remains unlaunched with no new details from Musk or SpaceX.
- Dogecoin showed little immediate reaction, hovering near $0.10–$0.11 after a brief ~1.5% uptick, a muted move compared with the roughly 30% jump after Musk’s 2021 tease.