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What's next? Here's a list: http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php Looks like they've got plenty to keep 'em busy
by planetguy 14y ago
What's next? Here's a list:
http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php
Looks like they've got plenty to keep 'em busy for the next five years.
- rwhitman 14y agoI wonder what their financials look like. Curious to know what the profit margin is on a rocket launch...
- planetguy 14y agoWait for the IPO next year and you'll find out!
- rst 14y agoIt might well happen then if everything goes well, but I'm not sure they've ever given a specific date. In public statements that I've seen, Elon's been pretty consistent about saying he wants a "steady cadence of launches" before a public offering, because that's what it takes to convince Wall Street that something as exotic as a space launch company is a sustainable business, particularly if the CEO keeps talking about colonizing Mars. He went on in COTS-2/3 press conferences to define "steady cadence" as a launch a month or so, which would be a breakneck pace for any other organization on Earth. If they launch everything on their manifest successfully, they may be on path to do that by the end of next year --- but that, too is an ambitious goal. (Heck, even if he can produce all the rockets, his customers may not have the payloads ready!)
- tsotha 14y agoThe joke for many years has been "If you want to be a billionaire, take ten billion dollars and start a rocket company." Wall Street is right to be skeptical, though nobody has ever had this much success before.