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It's possible, and there could be motive from competing companies, but frankly it seems a bit far-fetched.
by hood_syntax 10y ago
It's possible, and there could be motive from competing companies, but frankly it seems a bit far-fetched.
- imaginenore 10y agoNot just companies, countries like Russia. SpaceX is eating their space lunch.
- wyager 10y agoThere's also the whole conspiracy theory with Israel not wanting the launch to go through because it was a condition for the sale of the Israeli Spacecom to the Chinese, and Israel wanted to maintain control of their space industry.
- dogma1138 10y agoThe Israeli government approved the sale, they could've said no if they wanted too. If some one doesn't want Israel to transfer satellite technology to China it's not really the Israeli government. Also Spacecom is just a satellite operator, the satellite was built by IAI and other contractors, IAI is a state owned corporation which builds Israel's satellites and space launch vehicles. For the most part Spacecom doesn't have anything of real worth the transfer (other than their commercial operations), they do not operate Israel's military satellites they do not even operate Israel's commercial dual-use earth observing satellites.
- olalonde 10y agoEven more far fetched, someone shorting a large amount of SpaceX stock. That would make for a decent movie plot though.
- dogma1138 10y agoSpaceX isn't publically traded IIRC, so shorting the stock isn't really possible.