Tesla grabbed Boeing’s military business? The space battle has continued

Born in Pretoria, South Africa, his mother is a model and his father is an electrical engineer. He earned a lot of money through consulting services and real estate development. He has horse racing, yachts, several properties and even a Cessna aircraft. . He mastered the BASIC programming language at the age of 12 and immediately wrote a software that sold for $500 (equivalent to $1200 today). At the age of 17, he moved to Canada and studied at Queen's University in Canada and the University of Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor's degree in economics and physics. The aerospace company he founded broke the monopoly of Boeing and Lockhill Martin and grabbed the US rocket launch mission. He had a dream - immigration to Mars.

Yes, he is the CEO of SpaceX, the founder and CEO of Tesla, and the CEO of SolarCity, Elon Musk. Each company is admirable, and some people have summarized the financial relationships of the three companies. SpaceX is responsible for “making money and raising a family”, Tesla is responsible for “beautiful beauty” and SolarCity is responsible for “dreams to declare”. It can be seen that SpaceX is not a dream project, but a real money-making project.

How much money does SpaceX make?

SpaceX was founded by Musk in June 2002 with a personal investment of $100 million (mostly for PayPal). SpaceX has a valuation of more than $10 billion in 2014, and has accumulated billions of government and large enterprise orders. It also allowed it to achieve profitability in early 2015. Eighteen rocket launch missions have been successfully performed, including NASA and a number of private companies. The company’s contract with NASA totaled $1.6 billion. The company is also likely to receive a second $2.6 billion contract involving the task of transporting astronauts.

Tesla grabbed Boeing’s military business? The space battle has continued

The picture shows the parameters and launch cost of the Falcon 9 and the Falcon heavy rocket.

Falcon 9 rocket broke the monopoly and was approved by the US Air Force

Previously, the US military launch mission was mostly undertaken by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The single launch cost was $160 million, using the Russian-made RD-180 engine, and the Falcon 9 launch cost control. Within $100 million, not only that, Falcon 9 completed its first recycling in December last year, which may reduce its direct cost of launch from $60 million to $6 million because the fuel cost is only $200,000. According to the US Government Accountability Office, the market size of the US military launch service will reach $70 billion by 2030.

The technology is not perfect. The satellite SpaceX, which has been smashed for $200 million, may face a crisis of losing multiple orders.

On the morning of September 1, 2016, the SpaceX "Falcon 9" rocket exploded at the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Florida. The Facebook Amos-6 satellite carried by the Rockets has been completely destroyed. The explosion directly led to the evaporation of Musk’s $800 million personal assets. Gwynne Shotwell, president of Space X, announced two weeks later that the launch of the launch was officially resumed in November. As of now, there is no news.

This big customer is Inmarsat PLC of Inmarsat. Before the explosion, they signed three orders with SpaceX, including

1. Launching Inmarsat 5-F4 Ka-band broadband mobile communication satellite using Falcon 9;

2. Launch S-band aeronautical connection satellites using the new Falcon heavy-duty rocket;

3. The Inmarsat-6 satellite has not yet been determined.

This bombing directly told Inmarsat's CEO: "Although we believe in the strength of SpaceX, we still worry that the rocket launch will be delayed, because after all, in addition to us, there are many companies waiting in the waiting team. In case, just in case, we You must find an alternative rocket for the S-band satellite."

Tesla grabbed Boeing’s military business? The space battle has continued

In addition to investigating the cause of the explosion, Musk also pondered a bigger plan in the first two days to comfort Xiaozha, a space Internet project consisting of 4,425 satellites. This number is a few more than the sum of all humans that have already launched satellites. The initial $10 billion plan, as early as January last year, received $1 billion from Google and mutual fund giant Fidelity. The plan is a two-step process: first, launching 1,600 satellites at an orbital altitude, then launching 2,825 satellites and placing them in four shells at different orbital heights.

SpaceX wrote in the application: "This system will be used primarily to provide a variety of broadband and communication services to individual users, business users, institutional users, governments and professional users worldwide." Reviewing the entire industry chain, the satellite industry includes four Large areas: satellite manufacturing, satellite launch, satellite services and satellite ground equipment industries, with satellite service revenue and terrestrial equipment revenue accounting for nearly 90%. This shows that the huge satellite application service behind it has become the biggest core of the communication satellite industry chain.

Tesla grabbed Boeing’s military business? The space battle has continued

Like Musk, Amazon CEO Bezos’s ambitions in the field of aviation exploration have never been more than just talking about it. As early as 2000, Amazon was still unable to make ends meet, Bezos established his own airline Blue Origin.

Tesla grabbed Boeing’s military business? The space battle has continued

So far, Bezos' New Shepard rocket has been successfully recycled four times, and these are a key step in reusable rocket technology. The latest New Glenn third-order rocket version (for New Glenn 3) can fly farther and load more than Blue Origin's New Shepard.

In 2016, Aerospace Science and Technology Group and Aerospace Science and Technology Group of Aerospace National Team established Aerospace Science and Technology Rocket Technology Co., Ltd. and China Long March Rocket Co., Ltd. in February and October. The two companies will provide the "Fast Boat" series and the "Long March" series of rockets, both of which are regarded as the Chinese version of "Space X." At the same time, the "civil team" known by the media as the Chinese version of "Space X" has at least One Space (Zero Space) and Zhuhai listed company Oubit.

Chinese version of "Falcon" - Long March 5

On November 3, the successful launch of the Long March 5 rocket upgraded the payload of the space express to 25 tons of low-Earth orbit and 14 tons of geosynchronous transfer orbit. The Long March 5 pushed the Chinese rocket's load capacity to the same magnitude as the Falcon-9. The Long March 5 is considered to have great commercial value and greatly enhances China's competitiveness in the international commercial launch market. It is reported that Ali has already issued a list of satellite launches.

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