{"id":1006431,"date":"2026-05-02T08:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006431"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:41:35","slug":"spacex-spending-on-starship-tops-15-billion-in-rush-for-airline-like-rocketry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/spacex-spending-on-starship-tops-15-billion-in-rush-for-airline-like-rocketry\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its next-generation Starship rocket, according to the company&#8217;s IPO registration reviewed by Reuters, a sum that dwarfs the cost of its workhorse Falcon rocket as Elon Musk&#8217;s space company nears a decade trying to perfect a fully reusable launch system. <\/p>\n<p>The future of SpaceX&#8217;s most lucrative businesses as it sprints toward public markets at a $1.75 trillion valuation rests largely on Starship, a towering two-stage rocket system central to Musk&#8217;s ambitions to launch larger batches of Starlink satellites, carry humans to the moon and Mars, and eventually deploy thousands of artificial intelligence computing satellites as an alternative to power-hungry data centres on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has spent more than $15 billion developing its next-generation Starship rocket, according to the company&#8217;s IPO registration reviewed by Reuters, a sum that dwarfs the cost of its workhorse Falcon rocket as Elon Musk&#8217;s space company nears a decade trying to perfect a fully reusable launch system. The future of SpaceX&#8217;s most lucrative businesses as it sprints toward public markets at a $1.75 trillion valuation rests largely on Starship, a towering two-stage rocket system central to Musk&#8217;s ambitions to launch larger batches of Starlink satellites, carry humans to the moon and Mars, and eventually deploy thousands of artificial intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}