• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Spcx as a company is a massive AI business liability bolted onto a viable satellite internet business and an experimental but potentially successful rocket business. The former dwarfing the latter two in size. If they can decouple and let xAI die it can probably survive as a smaller company. If not, then it will likely, in my layman view, implode, and the satellite portion picked up by another company.

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      17 hours ago

      If not, then it will likely, in my layman view, implode, and the satellite portion picked up by another company.

      The rocket portion needs picked up as well. Starlink satellites orbit inside the upper atmosphere and need replaced every 5 years or so, even when factoring in periodic boosts to their orbit from propulsion