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kilativ — 01.12.2021 Elon Musk is angry with the lack of progress SpaceX has made in developing the Raptor engines that power its Starship rocket.
He described a dire situation the day after Thanksgiving in a companywide email, a copy of which was obtained by CNBC.
“The Raptor production crisis is much worse than it seemed a few weeks ago,” Musk wrote.
“We face genuine risk of bankruptcy if we cannot achieve a Starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year,” Musk added later.
SpaceX has raised billions in funding over the past several years, both to for Starship and its satellite internet project Starlink, with the company’s valuation recently hitting $100 billion.
But, while SpaceX has launched about 1,700 Starlink satellites to orbit so far, Musk said the first version of the satellite “is financially weak.” The company has been steadily growing Starlink’s user base, with about 140,000 users paying for service at $99 a month.
Earlier this year SpaceX outlined improvements for the second version of the satellite, with Musk saying in his email that “V2 is strong” but can only be launched effectively by its Starship rockets.
To date SpaceX has launched Starlink satellites with its Falcon 9 rockets, but Musk outlined that those rockets do not have the mass or volume needed to effectively deploy the second-generation satellites. That means the success of the Raptor engine program is also critical to the long-term financial stability of SpaceX’s Starlink service, which Musk has talked about spinning off in an IPO.
Notably, SpaceX is currently ramping up production of its Starlink antennas “to several million units per year,” Musk said in the email, but those will be “useless otherwise” if Raptor does not succeed.
Отсюда

Если Раптор не заработает, а Старшип не взлетит, то компания Маска вылетит в трубу. И там явно не все гладко

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