SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we’re calling the whole thing SpaceX.Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX’s first quarterly earnings statement as a public company.
- ▪She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor.
- ▪Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk’s healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one.
- ▪Now I have some questions about why we’re calling the whole thing SpaceX.Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a telecom company and a company that rents compute, according to SpaceX’s first quarterly earnings statement as a pub
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| Publication time | 2026-08-05T12:35:56-04:00 |
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