According to CNBC on Tuesday (16th) quoting a source, SpaceX completed another round of 850 million last weekUSDAs the market hopes to deploy SpaceX’s “Starlink” and Starship in advance, the fundraising attracted as much as 6 billionUSDFunds line up for capital injection.
According to sources, SpaceX is trading at 419.99 per share USDThe price of raising new funds has increased the valuation by 60% compared with August to about 74 billionUSD.In August last year, SpaceX sold 46 billionUSDThe valuation raised nearly 2 billionUSD。
The source said that in addition to providing fuel for SpaceX’s space and Starlink projects, the company’s insiders and existing investors can also sell an additional value of 750 million yuan through secondary transactions.USDstock.
It’s worth noting that SpaceX’s funding this time only absorbed a portion of the funds available in the market. The source said,SpaceX received “crazy investment demand” in just three days after the announcement of the fundraising. The market wants to invest as much as 6 billion in SpaceX.USD。
The Starlink project is committed to building a network of thousands of satellites and improving a faster network for users. It is one of SpaceX’s immediate investment plans. The leadership of SpaceX once estimated that Starlink’s construction cost is about 10 billionUSDAbove, but after the completion of the construction, it can bring 30 billionUSDRevenue is about 10 times the current annual revenue of the rocket business.
SpaceX has so far launched more than 1,000 satellites for the Starlink project, and has begun to launch a public beta network service to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, allowing potential users in the region to pre-purchase the Starlink project’s network services, scheduled for mid-to-late 2021 Go online, other regions will have to wait until 2022.
SpaceX stated in a document submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week that it has only been more than three months since the launch of the Starlink project’s public beta, and has more than 10,000 users in the US and around the world.
In addition, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said last week that SpaceX plans to eventually split Starlink and go public, mainly because Starlink expects that a large amount of funds will be needed in the next year to close the huge cash gap and wait until it can be reasonably predicted. Cash flow will be IPO as soon as possible.
SpaceX is also working on the development of the Starship rocket. Although several Starship prototypes have been successfully launched at this stage and several milestones have been achieved, both of the last two launches exploded during landing, and another rocket test flight is expected in the next few weeks. .
Starship is an important goal of SpaceX’s space travel plan. SpaceX is committed to developing reusable spacecraft, carrying out cargo transportation, moon landings for up to 100 people, and Mars colonization.
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