Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to news in the morning of July 14, Beijing time, US commercial space launch company SpaceX is another star company owned by billionaire Musk. Recently, the existing shareholders of SpaceX made an equity transfer transaction. According to the transaction share price, SpaceX's capital valuation has been close to 150 billion US dollars (currently about 1.07 trillion yuan).

SpaceX Chief Financial Officer Brett Johnson (Bret Johnsen) recently made a share offer to the company's existing shareholders, hoping to buy $750 million (currently about 5.37 billion yuan) worth of shares from those shareholders at a price of $81 a share. The offer was obtained by the press.

This time, instead of issuing new shares and capital financing, SpaceX provides an opportunity to cash out shares held by existing shareholders.

In April, Musk said SpaceX needed to develop starship, satellite and other businesses, but the company was not prepared to raise new financing to support these programs.

It is reported that according to the previous rule, SpaceX will organize secondary market trading activities of existing shares twice a year, so that employees and existing shareholders can sell shares and withdraw cash.

In the last insider trading, SpaceX shares were valued at $77 (the company was valued at $140 billion). This time, $81 is up 5 per cent from the last time. SpaceX did not comment on the news.

SpaceX is not yet available. It is reported that unlisted companies with valuations of more than $1 billion are called "unicorns", and SpaceX has exceeded the $100 billion mark (100 times the $1 billion), so it is also known as a "unicorn" company.

SpaceX has promoted the reusable launch of rockets in the first place in the world, and the Falcon series of rockets performed well and almost formed a monopoly in the satellite launch market in the United States.

Last month, SpaceX completed its 200th rocket recovery and has carried out 47 rocket launches so far this year, equivalent to an average of one launch every four days.

Starship is another major project of SpaceX, which plans to transport humans to the moon and Mars in the future. The company is still investing heavily in the development of new versions of starship ships. Musk expects to spend $2 billion on starship research and development this year (currently about 14.32 billion yuan).

Prior to this, the starship spacecraft carried out its first launch test and achieved some results, but it also exposed many problems. The starship will conduct a second test launch in the coming months and is still awaiting approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.

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