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SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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This is very sad… the Nazi CEO doesn't actually care about space exploration. The Mars missions will probably not happen, and at this rate, he might even manage to kill his cash cow SpaceX.
Imagine that, thousands and thousands of employees gave it their best only for the dream to go up in smoke like that. Instead, they'll work for dumb space groklinks, so that Musk can fill his deep pockets while spreading fascism on Twitter and funding his bigoted LLM.
What a sad reality we live in.
I would hope that if SpaceX collapses, the employees would find their way to other organizations with a similar dream.
SpaceX would still have served a purpose. Without it, there probably wouldn't be a Neutron, Nova, or Zhuque-3, or an Inspiration4, Fram2, or Axiom.
I mean, sure, you're not wrong. It's just that you see the glass half full while I see it half empty haha. You see the gain, I see the loss.
It just didn't have to end this way. And it still kills the dream of seeing humans on Mars within the next ten years. Now, I'm thinking I won't see such a thing in my lifetime. No one is going to try to do it in the foreseeable future, except maybe the Chinese in a few decades if they really set it as their next goal.
Honestly former SpaceX employee startups are really cool even if the old company has a egomaniac ball and chain holding that place back