{"id":76353,"date":"2018-02-25T16:03:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/could-elon-musk-lose-the-satellite-market-and-win-the-solar-system"},"modified":"2018-02-25T16:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:03:25","slug":"could-elon-musk-lose-the-satellite-market-and-win-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/could-elon-musk-lose-the-satellite-market-and-win-the-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Could Elon Musk Lose the Satellite Market \u2014 and Win the Solar System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-elon-musk-lose-the-satellite-market-and-win-the-solar-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When SpaceX launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwitimes.com\/business\/investment\/markets-and-stocks\/could-elon-musk-lose-the-satellite-market---\/kind\">the world\u2019s biggest rocket ship<\/a> on Feb. 6, that kind of seemed like a big deal \u2014 but not everyone is impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Previewing the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> seemed perplexed. Yes, the Falcon Heavy is big, admitted the <em>Journal.<\/em> But as a \u201cheavy-lift booster,\u201d it said, it is a product designed to serve a market that\u2019s suffering \u201csignificantly eroded commercial demand\u201d and \u201cuncertain commercial prospects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem, as the <em>Journal<\/em> (correctly) pointed out, is that thanks to advances in rocketry, electronics, and materials technology, \u201cboth national security and corporate satellites continue to get smaller and lighter\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2016\/05\/22\/got-25000-then-you-can-build-a-satellite-and-a-spa.aspx?&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=feed&referring_guid=5c132fcd-9462-4355-a230-ba0614ca89a7&utm_source=LeeEnterprises\" target=\"_blank\">and cheaper<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwitimes.com\/business\/investment\/markets-and-stocks\/could-elon-musk-lose-the-satellite-market---\/article_24a8a68d-bb2f-5114-84d5-b1a3bb85514c.html\">http:\/\/www.nwitimes.com\/business\/investment\/markets-and-stoc...5514c.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When SpaceX launched the world\u2019s biggest rocket ship on Feb. 6, that kind of seemed like a big deal \u2014 but not everyone is impressed. Previewing the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, The Wall Street Journal seemed perplexed. Yes, the Falcon Heavy is big, admitted the Journal. But as a \u201cheavy-lift booster,\u201d it said, it is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2028,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}