SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
中文摘要
SpaceX 的收入主要源于电信和算力租赁而非太空领域，引发了对其核心业务身份的质疑。
English Summary
SpaceX's revenue is primarily driven by telecom and computing rather than space, raising questions about its core identity under Elon Musk's influence.
Privatize the profit, socialize the losses? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX's first quarterly earnings statement as a public company. The space sector of the business didn't break a billion dollars this quarter and contributed only a touch over 10 percent of the company's revenue. SpaceX remains its own biggest customer. There just aren't enough other people who want its rockets. And, I dunno, maybe if the rockets … Read the full story at The Verge.