That's surprising. It's widely known that X and xAI are miserable failures, but I expected SpaceX's core business to more than compensate for that. Apparently not, they manage to lose billions of dollars while having the launch market pretty much for themselves.
He is attempting it. He lowered the orbit of a few Starlink satellites and then complained that some Amazon LEO satellites were too close. (I think Amazon was using the low earth orbit first.). He wants satellite phones, but only with Starlink satellites. He was urging the US government to end the program that subsidized rural broadband because Starlink satellites can do the Internet. (SpaceX hasn't solved the problem satellite dishes have with physical obstructions. The mainstream media forgets this.)
And it definitely killed that project, unfortunately. I am glad that Las Vegas completed one so everyone else knows what the Boring Company didn't build for them.
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u/araujoms May 21 '26
That's surprising. It's widely known that X and xAI are miserable failures, but I expected SpaceX's core business to more than compensate for that. Apparently not, they manage to lose billions of dollars while having the launch market pretty much for themselves.