#SpaceX Another round of private investment moves the enterprise to $150 Billion. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
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#SpaceX Another round of private investment moves the enterprise to $150 Billion. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-to-raise-another-750-million-in-stock-sale-earnings-rise-to-8-billion-in-23/
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batser from the surface of the planet earth. We're right |
| 0:39.4 | there on the surface of the planet earth to celebrate Bob Zimmerman's behind the black 13th |
| 0:44.5 | anniversary, and SpaceX has chimed in to celebrate with Bob, because not only 1,9 is made |
| 0:51.6 | its 16th orbit, a 16th boost into orbit, but 2 now, Bob, this is to celebrate behind the black. |
| 0:59.2 | Everyone's donations and subscriptions are welcome, and now we can watch Bob go for 3 Falcon |
| 1:06.4 | Nines to make the 16th trip to orbit. What is this significance of this Bob? How does it |
| 1:12.0 | improve things for all launch systems? Just to give some perspective, these two first stages of |
| 1:18.4 | Falcon 9, that's two stages of flown 32 times. That's actually more flights in the last 3 years |
| 1:25.6 | for those two things, those two boosters, than the entire United States rocket industry launched |
| 1:32.7 | annually from 2000 to 2019. In the first two decades of this century, the United States barely |
| 1:39.7 | was able to get 30 launches in a year, and these two stages in the last 3 years have now done more |
| 1:46.3 | than that, and they basically reduced the cost for launch for SpaceX, probably as much as 90%, |
| 1:52.8 | because you advertise the cost over those 16 launches each, and yes, they are going to be more |
| 1:58.5 | of a first stage of boosters going to go, that are going to go this much, and those two boosters |
| 2:02.8 | aren't done yet, they landed safely, and there's always a lot of them up fly again. So each flight |
| 2:07.5 | that costs for the boosters goes down, and the lower launch cost goes down, and I want to |
| 2:13.8 | remind people once again that as late as 2016, ahead of Ariane space, that would be impractical |
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