RE: Buying opportunity7 Jun 2025 06:04
This from a wider Tesla and SpaceX article on the BBC website today. Here is the relevant part:
......"However, despite the bluster, Trump's warning may be a little more hollow than it seems.
That's because SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft ferries people and cargo to the International Space Station where three NASA astronauts are currently posted. It demonstrates that SpaceX has so entrenched itself in the US space and national security apparatus, that Trump's threat could be difficult to carry out. You could make a similar argument about Musk's internet satellite company, Starlink. Finding an alternative could be easier said than done.
But, if there are limits on what Trump can do, the same is also true of Musk. In the middle of his row with Trump, he threatened to decommission the Dragon - but it wasn't long before he was rowing back.
Responding to an X user's suggestion he that he "cool down" he wrote, "Good advice. Ok, we wonβt decommission Dragon.", external
It's clear Musk and Trump's friendship is over. It's less certain their reliance on each other is." END