SpaceX启动750亿美元IPO 估值1.77万亿

SpaceX’s initial public offering is likely to boost the company’s valuation to $1.77 trillion, promote CEO Elon Musk to trillionaire status — and benefit the Seattle area’s space community as well. The $75 billion IPO, which will add SpaceX to the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday, is expected to be the biggest initial public offering in history. It’ll provide more capital for expanding SpaceX’s satellite networks and putting the company’s Starship mega-rocket into operation. Shareholders, including some of the hundreds of SpaceX employees in the Seattle area, could get a golden opportunity to cash in. There could also be a payoff for Pacific Northwest space ventures that are banking on the lower launch costs and higher payload capacity SpaceX is promising to deliver. “The reality is that SpaceX is the elephant in the room — and for a real reason, which is that they’ve got the lowest cost of launch and will continue to do so when Starship is up and running,” said Brendan Wales, general partner at Fuse, a Seattle-based venture capital firm. “So, whether SpaceX is successful or not, it is very impactful on Seattle startups.” Those startups include a few that have received funding from Fuse, such as Redmond-based Starcloud, which aims to send a constellation of data center satellites into space; and Bothell-based Portal Space Systems, which is developing highly maneuverable spacecraft designed to inspect, service or deorbit other satellites. The list of Washington state’s space ventures doesn’t stop there: Space Northwest, a Seattle-based space industry association, says more than 75 space companies call the Evergreen State their home. SpaceX connects with the Seattle area Even SpaceX is on Space Northwest’s map, by virtue of the company’s satellite production facility in Redmond. Back in 2015, Musk told a Seattle Center audience consisting primarily of potential employees that the satellite operation would be set up in the Seattle area instead of Southern California because “a lot of you guys, it seems, don’t want to move to L.A.” Since then, SpaceX’s Redmond campus has been responsible for building nearly two-thirds of the world’s active satellites in orbit, and according to SpaceX’s IPO filing, the factory continues to turn out 70 satellites per week for its Starlink broadband internet constellation. With more than 12 million subscribers, Starlink generates more than half of SpaceX’s revenue and is the only one of the company’s three business segments to tur…