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If the SPCX value is tied to making rocket launches, then there is no way that company is worth a trillion dollars.Booster and Ship both splashed down where they were supposed to without exploding. Cool - share price can move in other direction now
If the SPCX value is tied to making rocket launches, then there is no way that company is worth a trillion dollars.
space data centers are no "game changer". Even the most optimistic require 1/10 the current launch costs. That is before the very large deficiencies of space data centers themselves are taken into consideration relative to terrestrial ones. This particularly true for pure compute where locality doesn't matter. Even if you need to relocate data sources with communication infrastructure, it only is of advantage if you are already using a satellite internet service and you can co-locate the web server with the satellite it would be faster for those satellite internet service users. AKA, if you put a copy of wikipedia on a Starlink satellite it will be faster to use wikipedia for starlink users, but if the only server for wikipedia was on a Starlink satelite it would be much slower for the rest of us.No the company value is tied to the fact that commercial space transportation is a game changer and especially if tied to Data centers/energy infrastructure in space supporting unlimited numbers of AI server farms. But the rockets have to work and the sooner the better for Starship.
The starship had a soft landing as evidenced by the absence of an explosion and the obvious intact condition.Looks like both booster and starship came back to earth with a hard landing. I believe they are going to attempt to catch both booster and ship portions for Starship 14 sometimes this fall.