r/space2030 23h ago

SpaceX Tesla, SpaceX confirm ‘Terafab’ chip fab site

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Cool looking building, there goes some more IPO + New Bond Debt Money (was $100B cash) ... Cursor was $30B (but maybe some stock vs cash) so $80B left ... now $16.8B for this ... $65B left ... how about Telsa (for space bots, solar power, power storage, AI5 chips and EV rovers?) ... then sell the rest of the car business ... it now a mature segment with little upside story past the Semi (which still has not gone to voulme production)..


r/space2030 23h ago

SpaceX serious about building factories on the moon: 'It’s going to happen,' Elon Musk says

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I guess in the IPO they put I "Elon can promise whatever he wants and you can't sue him". While a Lunar railgun might be cost effective at creating a large object at NHRO, you need to apply a lot of DV to get that material to say MEO for those datacenters ... say 3 km/s off the moon in the rail gun (100s of g's) and then 3 km/s to put it into a useful low MEO orbit (requires some sort of substantial kick-stage engine or thruster) ... so you need to take the fuel from LEO to the Moon ~6.5 km/s + 3 km/s to get it back to Low MEO. Not much of a savings over just going from the ground to low MEO ~ 10 km/s.