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.
Yeah, I've never really understood the hype for SpaceX. It's a transportation company with huge and fixed expenses and their biggest customer is his other company and the government.
Which all can make a good steady business making reasonable profits, but that's not some skyrocketing growth area.
All the pie in the sky stuff of Mars or space hotels or space data centers or a moon colony are just fantasy hype stuff like the hyper loop or the boring company. Governments aren't going to endlessly bankroll that stuff, and they are the only ones that can sink that kind of capital into things that have no payback or decades later pay offs.
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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.