T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 1 SpaceX估价100亿，google和fidelity搭伙占一成股份。好几家公司开始投资卫星通讯
网，如果SpaceX继续把发射成本大幅度降低，会有更多的太空项目。
Google and Fidelity Put $1 Billion Into SpaceX
SAN FRANCISCO — Google likes its ambitions sky high. This time, it has gone
a little further.
The Internet giant, along with Fidelity, has invested $1 billion in Space
Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the private rocketry company founded by
Elon Musk. The move could help Google achieve its aim of bringing satellite
Internet to remote corners of the world while giving SpaceX more money for
its founder to pursue dreams of going to Mars.
In addition to a payoff on its investment, Google may be seeking to put
itself into orbit. Last year, Google bought Skybox Imaging, a maker of small
, high-resolution imaging satellites, for about $500 million. Google already
offers satellite imagery in its Google Earth product, but must purchase
these images from multiple sources, often receiving what company executives
have said is uneven image quality.
Google may also be interested in developing satellites with other kinds of
sensors, like infrared detectors that show the health of crops, or lasers
that can pierce forest canopies to show underlying terrain.
Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are both personally interested
in space exploration. Early in the company’s history it offered employee
lectures on building so-called space elevators that could theoretically
launch objects off Earth more cheaply than rockets could.
More practically, the company has been trying to transform the Internet
connectivity business with high-altitude balloons that people can use to get
online from remote locations. That same transmission technology could
conceivably be put on satellites as well. Google is in competition with
Facebook, which is also interested in advanced means of connectivity and
which last year purchased a drone company whose products are potentially
capable of carrying Internet devices.
Google and Fidelity will collectively own 10 percent of SpaceX because of
the investment, SpaceX said in statement.
“Space-based applications like imaging satellites can help people more
easily access important information, so we’re excited to support SpaceX’s
growth as it develops new launch technologies,” Don Harrison, Google’s
vice president for corporate development, said in a statement. Mr. Harrison
will join the board of SpaceX.
With this investment, Google is hopping on a crowded bandwagon. Last week,
Virgin Group, along with Qualcomm, a maker of communications semiconductors,
announced they had invested in a constellation of 648 Internet connectivity
satellites. Also on Tuesday, Planet Labs, a maker of shoebox-size
satellites that offer Earth imagery, announced it had received $95 million
in financing.
SpaceX grew out of Mr. Musk’s desire to land plants — the green,
photosynthesizing type of plants — on the surface of Mars. As Mr. Musk
tells the story, he started looking for feasible rockets, but found the
pickings to be too risky or too expensive, so decided to start his own
rocket company.
It almost went out of business. The first three launches of SpaceX’s small
Falcon 1 rocket from Kwajalein Atoll, a small island in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean, failed. But after a successful launch in September 2008, the
company was able to continue development of the larger Falcon 9 rocket, part
of a contract from NASA to develop the capability for taking cargo to the
International Space Station.
Today, SpaceX is sort of the Southwest Airlines of rocket launchers —
reliable and cheap. So far, NASA represents the biggest slice of the company
’s business. SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract for space station cargo and
last year won a $2.6 billion contract to fly astronauts to the station
beginning in 2017. It also has contracts to launch commercial satellites.
Recently, the company has come close to innovative breakthroughs, almost
landing the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the
Atlantic Ocean. The company is also planning the inaugural launch of its
much bigger Falcon Heavy rocket this year, two years behind the original
schedule.
But it is not clear how SpaceX could obtain the financial resources to
fulfill Mr. Musk’s more ambitious pronouncement, which is that the company
would take people to Mars in a decade.
The company could raise a large pot of capital through an I.P.O. — that is,
if shareholders would countenance such an extraordinarily expensive venture
with uncertain payoffs far off in the future. Mr. Musk has said SpaceX
would remain privately held for now.
And even with its successes, the company has not launched as many rockets as
quickly as it promised.
The Google investment appears to be a different approach: to bring in an
influx of dollars without Mr. Musk yielding ironclad control.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/technology/google-makes-1-bil |
d*******3
发帖数: 8598 | |
T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 3
如果回收火箭成功，spacex的市值会暴涨，google现在加入时机不错。
【在 d*******3 的大作中提到】
: 有钱的真是有钱啊
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a******g
发帖数: 13519 | |
N*****m
发帖数: 42603 | 5 忽悠届的#1，不服不行
【在 a******g 的大作中提到】
: 穆斯科笑死了，又有凯子上当了。
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w*********a
发帖数: 9279 | 6 不服不行。
美国真是个创新驱动的国家。这就是科学技术变成生产力的典范。 |
T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 7
他最近步子有点大，spaceX， tesla，solarcity，hyperloop，space internet，项目
太多。
【在 N*****m 的大作中提到】
: 忽悠届的#1，不服不行
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S******8
发帖数: 24594 | 8 等着看笑话的人很多，不知道他们是不是比Google聪明。
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
:
: 他最近步子有点大，spaceX， tesla，solarcity，hyperloop，space internet，项目
: 太多。
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c****3
发帖数: 10787 | 9 技术太超前，脱离实际，是容易被人看笑话。motorola就被人看笑话了。google眼睛也
被人看笑话了
【在 S******8 的大作中提到】
: 等着看笑话的人很多，不知道他们是不是比Google聪明。
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T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 10
搞卫星互联网有好几家，OneWeb还占了频率，但就SpaceX本身有硬件实力，从卫星研发
到火箭发射一条龙，现在发射比别人便宜一半，如果回收火箭搞成价钱还能下去一大块
。
【在 S******8 的大作中提到】
: 等着看笑话的人很多，不知道他们是不是比Google聪明。
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c****3
发帖数: 10787 | 11 还是市场说了算，这么大投资，市场看不准，就得被人看笑话。
摸头罗拉当年就栽在市场上了
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
:
: 搞卫星互联网有好几家，OneWeb还占了频率，但就SpaceX本身有硬件实力，从卫星研发
: 到火箭发射一条龙，现在发射比别人便宜一半，如果回收火箭搞成价钱还能下去一大块
: 。
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x****o
发帖数: 21566 | 12 就是，腾讯多好
【在 c****3 的大作中提到】
: 技术太超前，脱离实际，是容易被人看笑话。motorola就被人看笑话了。google眼睛也
: 被人看笑话了
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w*********a
发帖数: 9279 | 13 很多是实验项目。
真正推广的只有spaceX 和 特斯拉。
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
:
: 搞卫星互联网有好几家，OneWeb还占了频率，但就SpaceX本身有硬件实力，从卫星研发
: 到火箭发射一条龙，现在发射比别人便宜一半，如果回收火箭搞成价钱还能下去一大块
: 。
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a******g
发帖数: 13519 | 14 最近穆斯科手头有点吃紧，多搞点像项目，逮着一个算一个。跟教授骗房顶一样。
：
：【 在 Nehalem (Nehalem) 的大作中提到: 】 |
c****3
发帖数: 10787 | 15 无线频率也是挺大风险。搞不到中国批准的卫星频率，敢在中国开展业务吗，这也是非
法的，搞频率资源是及其困难的事情。世界各国的无线法规也不一样。
搞到ITU通过的频率，这个风险小多了。
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
:
: 搞卫星互联网有好几家，OneWeb还占了频率，但就SpaceX本身有硬件实力，从卫星研发
: 到火箭发射一条龙，现在发射比别人便宜一半，如果回收火箭搞成价钱还能下去一大块
: 。
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T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 16
只有要在德州建实验段的hyperloop是纯实验项目，solarcity早上市了，satellite
internet已经在西雅图开门招人了还搞来google投资。
【在 w*********a 的大作中提到】
: 很多是实验项目。
: 真正推广的只有spaceX 和 特斯拉。
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N******K
发帖数: 10202 | 17 就算是忽悠 也比地产经济强
gone
satellite
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: SpaceX估价100亿，google和fidelity搭伙占一成股份。好几家公司开始投资卫星通讯
: 网，如果SpaceX继续把发射成本大幅度降低，会有更多的太空项目。
: Google and Fidelity Put $1 Billion Into SpaceX
: SAN FRANCISCO — Google likes its ambitions sky high. This time, it has gone
: a little further.
: The Internet giant, along with Fidelity, has invested $1 billion in Space
: Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the private rocketry company founded by
: Elon Musk. The move could help Google achieve its aim of bringing satellite
: Internet to remote corners of the world while giving SpaceX more money for
: its founder to pursue dreams of going to Mars.
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T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 18
忽悠硬件比软件强，至少带动产业链。
【在 N******K 的大作中提到】
: 就算是忽悠 也比地产经济强
:
: gone
: satellite
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p*********g
发帖数: 9527 | 19 猪八戒在大话西游里说过：吹气球呀，吹个大气球。美国现在最值钱的东西就是dream
，或者好听点，hope
gone
satellite
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: SpaceX估价100亿，google和fidelity搭伙占一成股份。好几家公司开始投资卫星通讯
: 网，如果SpaceX继续把发射成本大幅度降低，会有更多的太空项目。
: Google and Fidelity Put $1 Billion Into SpaceX
: SAN FRANCISCO — Google likes its ambitions sky high. This time, it has gone
: a little further.
: The Internet giant, along with Fidelity, has invested $1 billion in Space
: Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the private rocketry company founded by
: Elon Musk. The move could help Google achieve its aim of bringing satellite
: Internet to remote corners of the world while giving SpaceX more money for
: its founder to pursue dreams of going to Mars.
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c****g
发帖数: 37081 | |
x****u
发帖数: 12955 | 21
Google在投资上从来是不聪明的时候多些。
【在 S******8 的大作中提到】
: 等着看笑话的人很多，不知道他们是不是比Google聪明。
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