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SpaceX Will Fail

The company is overstretched and poorly managed.

Icarus may have had wax wings, but imagine if he was also a racist neo-Nazi with more money than God. Well, that is precisely what is happening with Musk and SpaceX. Their Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets were designed by an ex-NASA team who already proved the technology worked in the ’90s with their DC-X prototype. As such, these rockets work and actually make sense. But, of course, Musk wasn’t satisfied with this proof and so took the wheel himself to create Starship and Starlink — two “revolutionary” technologies that would thrust humans into an interplanetary future, right? Well, no. You see, rather than flying too close to the sun, Musk has claimed that it’s a shiny pot of gold and flown directly towards its orbit, failing to notice that his wings may have already melted away. SpaceX is set to fail; the question isn’t “if” but “when.” Let me explain.

It is not hyperbole to state that the future of SpaceX entirely hinges on Starship. It didn’t have to be this way, but Musk has chosen to bet the entire company’s future on the project. Why? Well, Starship is SpaceX’s only viable route to increasing profits, and SpaceX needs these massive profits to repay the huge amount of investment dumped into Starship.