On November 4th, according to TheStreet, Elon Musk again referenced his April 2021 tweet—"SpaceX will send a real Dogecoin to a real moon"—and stated, "The time is right."
When that tweet was posted in 2021, the price of DOGE surged nearly 30% within minutes, demonstrating Musk's immense influence on this type of meme coin.
A few weeks later, the SpaceX founder further confirmed that the company would officially launch the "DOGE-1 lunar mission" and accept DOGE as payment.
DOGE-1 is a CubeSat mission developed by the Canadian company Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC), with all costs paid in Dogecoin.
The satellite will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, becoming the first space mission entirely paid for with cryptocurrency.
Although the mission launch has been delayed multiple times, according to filings with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it is currently scheduled for the end of 2025.