I love the old 'it only works because they get free money'. Because people just love to give away money to companies that go no-where.
If its so easy for companies to get billions of $ why don't other companies just do that?
BlueOrigin is currently losing 2 billion $ a year, and somehow all these people who gave money to SpaceX are not willing to give it to BlueOrigin. So Bezos has to pay if from his own pocket. Why is that you think?
The reality is SpaceX achieved fantastic results with they money people invested. Both in terms of technology and in terms of revenue growth and profit on operation. And then they presented new plans for expansions and achieved fantastic results again. Then they ask for more money again. And so on and so on.
If you build large infrastructure its gone require a lot of up front money. SpaceX really only start to raise major money when they started major infrastructure projects like Starship and Starlink.
Frankly, the its absolutely absurd that they only raised 11 billion $. For reference the SLS rocket alone is so far running at 22 billion $. The SLS/Orion together so far cost 55 billion $ and they will cost a lot more before they are done.
The fact that they raised 11 billion $, built cargo and crew space craft for ISS. Also build the most successful rocket family in history. Built the largest constellation of sats in history, plus ground stations, plus distributing millions of terminals. Built and design the best rocket engine in history. And also built the largest rocket in the world. Plus of course multiple launch sites. Plus a number of major factories to build all that stuff.
Your claim that every company could do this for 11 billion $ is frankly laughable for anybody that knows anything about the space industry.
If its so easy for companies to get billions of $ why don't other companies just do that?
BlueOrigin is currently losing 2 billion $ a year, and somehow all these people who gave money to SpaceX are not willing to give it to BlueOrigin. So Bezos has to pay if from his own pocket. Why is that you think?
The reality is SpaceX achieved fantastic results with they money people invested. Both in terms of technology and in terms of revenue growth and profit on operation. And then they presented new plans for expansions and achieved fantastic results again. Then they ask for more money again. And so on and so on.
If you build large infrastructure its gone require a lot of up front money. SpaceX really only start to raise major money when they started major infrastructure projects like Starship and Starlink.
Frankly, the its absolutely absurd that they only raised 11 billion $. For reference the SLS rocket alone is so far running at 22 billion $. The SLS/Orion together so far cost 55 billion $ and they will cost a lot more before they are done.
The fact that they raised 11 billion $, built cargo and crew space craft for ISS. Also build the most successful rocket family in history. Built the largest constellation of sats in history, plus ground stations, plus distributing millions of terminals. Built and design the best rocket engine in history. And also built the largest rocket in the world. Plus of course multiple launch sites. Plus a number of major factories to build all that stuff.
Your claim that every company could do this for 11 billion $ is frankly laughable for anybody that knows anything about the space industry.