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cjtoday at 12:23 PM6 repliesview on HN

What exactly is SpaceX's core business?


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jeltztoday at 12:39 PM

Their satellite internet business is the only thing which makes them money, which is enabled by their orbital launch business which is as of right now not profitable and I have no idea of if it ever will be but without it they would not be able to launch enough satellites.

Their stupidity with AI and buying X mostly seems to be about scamming investors to make Musk even richer. Like this particular deal is just them doing what CoreWeave does at a SpaceX valuation.

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cryo32today at 12:28 PM

Smoking crack and investment fraud.

With a light sprinkling of space.

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hirako2000today at 12:33 PM

Its main business is connectivity. Starlink generated over 10B last year.

Becoming a broader infrastructure company with xAI.

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dgellowtoday at 2:34 PM

Government contracts. Dumping its shares on retail investors. Selling compute to AI vendors

sourcecodeplztoday at 12:45 PM

A datacenter that also provides connectivity/Internet

dehrmanntoday at 4:48 PM

Elon Musk.