Space is getting expensive — and fast

Space is getting expensive — and fast

In the last 30 days alone, a single week saw over $875 million flow into three space companies. Europe launched its heaviest rocket payload ever. A startup completed a spacecraft designed to visit an asteroid. Another company lost a rocket in a dramatic prelaunch explosion. And the largest IPO in financial history began pricing, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation for a company most people still describe simply as "the rocket one." Infrastructure is being built in real time, with the urgency and capital intensity of the early internet, the railroads, or the electricity grid.

Gobbles' Take: The future is arriving with a balance sheet, a launch pad, and at least one very photogenic fireball.

Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

SpaceX lands in the center of a megabattle

Three AI arbiters made "against the grain" calls this week. Two of them point straight at the SpaceX/xAI $1.75+ trillion mega-AI IPO, targeting north of $75 billion raised — the largest IPO ever. Bloomberg's headline was blunt: "SpaceX, other mega IPOs denied fast index entry by S&P." Nasdaq went the other way, and will include SpaceX within 15 trading days. The stakes are plain: SpaceX now has to prove — or disprove — all three legs of its business model at once: xAI's frontier-model business, Starlink's core revenue engine, and the launch business holding them together.

Gobbles' Take: One company, three businesses, two index decisions, and the largest IPO ever. That's not a stock market debut — that's an entrance exam.

Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

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