Elon Musk’s Spacex has announced the departure of its longtime Google executive Donald Harrison. In an SEC filing the company said that Harrison has resigned from the rocket maker’s board of directors. Harrison is an old-timer at Google. He has worked at Google since 2005, and is the search giant’s president of global partnerships and corporate development. SpaceX thanked Harrison for his “many contributions and his years of dedicated and outstanding service” to the company.Spacex founder and CEO Elon Musk too responded to a post on Harrison leaving the company’s board. “Don has been a great board member. Very much appreciate his contributions. At this point, there are simply too many conflicts of interest with …,” wrote Musk.In a statement on Harrison leaving Spacex board, Google said, “While Don is stepping down from the board, we remain deeply supportive of SpaceX’s mission and are excited to continue our long-standing partnership.”Spacex SEC filing on Donald Harrison’s exitIn its SEC filing, Spacex said, “On November 4, 2026, Donald Harrison, a Class B Director of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his intention to resign as a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective immediately. Mr. Harrison’s decision to resign was not due to any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to its operations, policies, or practices. The Company and the Board express their deep appreciation to Mr. Harrison for his many contributions and his years of dedicated and outstanding service to the Company, and wish him the very best in his future endeavors.”Google’s relationship with SpacexThe announcement comes roughly five months after SpaceX went public in what has been the largest IPO on record. Google parent Alphabet maintains close ties with SpaceX, having invested in Elon Musk’s company in 2015, when it was valued at about $12 billion. Alphabet is now the largest institutional investor n SpaceX, with a stake worth $74 billion as of Friday’s close. SpaceX’s current market cap is about $1.8 trillion.Elon Musk responded with a single word ‘Interesting’, on Google buying more Spacex sharesIn January 2015, Google invested $900 million as part of a $1 billion funding round alongside Fidelity, backing Spacex’s ambitions in reusable rockets and satellite communications. Google is a key customer of Spacex, and has agreed to pay the company’s AI division up to $920 million a month for compute capacity from its data centers in the area around Memphis, Tennessee. The companies also recently worked together to launch Google AI chips into orbit via Project Suncatcher.Google-parent Alphabet ) recently expanded its Spacex stake by nearly 4 million additional shares, lifting the holding’s value to about $69 billion. Google’s parent company held approximately 555 million SpaceX shares at the end of September, up from 551.2 million three months earlier as per Reuters.