
What SpaceX is really worth
The prospectus asks for $1.75 trillion and points at a rocket. Read the segments and the rocket is the loss leader — the company is an internet provider that happens to fly its own delivery trucks.

Tomas follows the new economics of getting to orbit, the Moon, and beyond. He covered three launch programs before deciding the interesting story was always the budget, not the rocket.

The prospectus asks for $1.75 trillion and points at a rocket. Read the segments and the rocket is the loss leader — the company is an internet provider that happens to fly its own delivery trucks.

Starship V3 made a fiery splash in the Indian Ocean and Elon Musk called it epic. The number that matters is dollars per kilogram to the lunar south pole — and that number is still doing the heavy lifting NASA's renderings won't.