{"id":636637,"date":"2026-06-13T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636637\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:29:10","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%80-rockets-dont-pay-the-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636637\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\ude80 Rockets don\u2019t pay the bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw this chart from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EconomyApp\/status\/2065439038715330792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">App Economy Insights<\/a> and wanted to share it with you. Everybody thinks SpaceX is a rocket company. The money says otherwise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the $18.7 billion it brought in last year, rockets accounted for $4.1 billion. The real cash cow is Starlink, the satellite internet beamed to RVs, cabins and cruise ships, which pulled in $11.4 billion from nearly 9 million subscribers. There\u2019s even a new AI slice now that SpaceX swallowed xAI. And the kicker?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite all of it, the company still lost $2.6 billion running the place. Launching rockets is the easy part. Paying for them is where things get a little spacey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I saw this chart from App Economy Insights and wanted to share it with you. Everybody thinks SpaceX&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[38312,1638,2222,90,416,9676,72856,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-cruise","tag-internet","tag-money","tag-science","tag-space","tag-starlink","tag-subscribers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}