SpaceX星舰助推器爆炸，后续将尝试首次捕获回收

And now that SpaceX launch Friday night in South Texas, the company's most ambitious test yet off to a somewhat rocky start after the booster exploded over the water. Alright. Now the focus turns the attempt later today to catch the rocket itself for the first time. Joining us now is Ross Hamilton. He's the cofounder of Space Network. Ross, everyone here has been calling me the space grinch. Well, skeptic. So why is this different?

Why is this cool? Why should I be excited about this? Good morning. Good to see you again. I think there's a couple of things that are quite historic about this launch, and there's two parts to it. The first part is the the booster itself, which we saw had a unfortunate incident. It's one of the heaviest, biggest rockets ever. But the Starship that's sitting on top of it really represents where the company is going with reusability.

And what's about to happen, hopefully, afternoon is that they're gonna catch that Starship in in in the Mechazilla, and that's gonna represent real progress with not just, recycling and reusing these rockets, but really increasing the the rate at which, Elon Musk is gonna be putting stuff into space. All of that has a lot of implications for the broader space industry. Let's talk a bit about those implications. We can maybe put aside the moon and Mars here for for a moment.

But in the nearer term, what is SpaceX trying to do with the more regular use of the spacecraft? Yeah. So there's... There really are a couple of things there. One is this... The the actual amount of capacity and the frequency that they're putting in rockets up is gonna allow them to deploy their new, Starlink constellation. That's gonna change the game in terms of connectivity with Earth. It's going to drive and be driven by their own AI, ambitions in terms of manufacturing chips and really becoming, you know, maybe second to NVIDIA in terms of where they sit on AI.

It's also going to mean that orbital data centers, people have talked about, are gonna start becoming, more of a reality as we're able to get that equipment up into space. And there are a few other things that are tied to this. I know it's not... You know, we don't talk about the moon and Mars, but it's going to start showing us what this Starship can really do when it wants to leave, you know, Earth's orbit, you know, refueling, other Starships and really giving NASA a capacity of...

Get to the moon. Ross, quickly before you let go, when we talk about SpaceX, we talk about the parts of the company that are profitable, like Starlink and the parts of the company that are not. Is this part of the company profitable? Will it be in the near term? The launch part? The space part in general. Are they making money off of these massive rocket ships? Yeah. I mean, I don't think the the rocket ships themselves are not making money, but I think over time is to bring down the cost and to find more customers.

I think that could become profitable, But I think the real growth is gonna be around the AI, the chips, and the Starlink connectivity. Ross Hamilton, thank you very much. The cofounder of the space, network joining us here as we wait for the return of that second part of the spacecraft, later today. I think I believe in this afternoon, and it will be something to behold. Maybe we'll get you to watch it. Actually, clips after.

I am as likely to watch that as I am the many Knicks games you guys try to tell me to watch. Wow. The gauntlet has been thrown. I'm speechless. I'm rendered speechless as a result.