More than 20 years after founding SpaceX, the record-breaking company that transformed the global space industry, Elon Musk is planning to take the enterprise public.

Here is a look at what is expected to be the largest IPO in history.

- What's at stake? -

SpaceX is owned by Elon Musk alongside several investment funds. Tech giant Alphabet, Google's parent company, is also among the space company's shareholders.

A public listing would open SpaceX to a broader and more diverse pool of investors, including individual buyers, while giving existing shareholders an easier path to cash out and realize substantial capital gains.

"This is a capital intensive business," Matthew Kennedy of Renaissance Capital investment management firm told AFP.

"SpaceX has never had any difficulty raising fun

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