Space discounter Space X launched into orbit two telecommunications satellites – iks-media

Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Baikonur American Cape Carnival. The first satellite owned by Eutelsat, the second – Singapore-based Asia Broadcast, both devices manufactured by Boeing.
  

The next launch of Space X is scheduled for April, the goods will be delivered to the International Space Station.
 

Leonid Delitsyn, an analyst at investment holding Finam
 

The entrepreneur Elon Musk, also known for its electric cars, at some point realized that the market launch there are some opportunities for cost reduction. Companies that operate in this market, accustomed to generous government contracts and compete mainly in the creation of more and more powerful missiles that could increase the amount of delivered goods into high orbit. At the same time, the telecommunications industry needed to provide satellite communications services and television, which in some periods were not too interested in the “old” industry players. Elon Musk saw a gold mine here, more promising than the space taxi, which then mainly the press wrote. As a result, Space X cstal first discounter in the market for space launches.
 

Space X is one of three high-tech start-ups of the highest capitalization. Market estimates brainchild Mask $ 12 billion. The total investment in the company amounts to $ 1.1 billion. It may seem surprising that the capitalization of Space X with a comparable amount of invested funds in times lower than that of the control system order a taxi Uber (41,2 billion) and is almost equal to the cost of Dropbox. In our opinion, this is due to significant risks and industry, it is possible to run low marginality business. The fact that the cost of the launch vehicle is lower than the value of the payload, which they put into orbit. It is unclear how general strategy discounter viable in this market. This is the main argument of the more traditional manufacturers of launch vehicles – what’s the difference, how much would be saved if the payload will be lost? After all it is – much more expensive. To date, 15 Falcon launch vehicle account for one partial failure, and that approximately reflects the risk-based approach. The main competitors of the company can be considered as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, the French Arianespace and, of course, Roskosmos, but all of them, by their nature, are aimed not only at reducing the cost, how much to increase the power of media.
 

One of the possible projects that will pay off Space X – 10-billion project Google to launch four thousand satellites at 750 kilometers. This project will provide access to the Internet in the first place – in those countries where the network is still not widespread. Launching satellites with a group of their own media, masks could get a synergistic effect – it is planned that will work on projects of the same experts. However, this region is not free from competition – we know that the British entrepreneur Richard Branson is investing in a competing project OneWeb.