The two giants of American technology from the Earth to the upper space! Amazon founder Bezos disclosed that he sold $2 billion (about HK$15.6 billion) of Amazon shares again, following the sale of more than $10 billion worth of shares last year, the first large-scale reduction in holdings since this year. However, he reduced his holdings is not to look down on business prospects, but is believed by the market to be used to invest in its space company Blue Origin, to enhance the capital to compete with Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX. This fierce fight, or make the United States in the development of 6G benefit, especially SpaceX has developed a reusable rocket.
Comprehensive foreign media reports, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission documents show that Bezos following Monday sold nearly more than $1.27 billion worth of Amazon shares, Tuesday sold more than $684 million in holdings, a total of about $1.95 billion worth of shares sold in two days. Looking back at his frequent sales in recent years, he sold nearly $4.1 billion of shares in February last year, and then sold more than $3 billion in November of the same year. Previously he had said that he would sell Amazon shares every year for Blue Origin, so his reduction action did not hinder Amazon’s stock price record high.
In fact, he and Musk for the expansion of space business has continued to “burn” for years, and actively compete for the U.S. space agency (NASA) moon program contracts. Daniel Ives, an analyst at US brokerage Wedbush, said that this is not just a space battle, but also involves the egos of both men, becoming more like a personal feud.
But SpaceX’s satellite industry progress seems to have the upper hand, the company is working closely to seize the future 6G network technology market, because 6G is dependent on satellite data transmission, so SpaceX has implemented the “Starlink” (Starlink) plan, that is, the satellite launched into space to form a transmission chain, but is by no means in the mature stage. stage. The company said that since February began accepting reservations for satellite network service users, has received more than 500,000 orders, and customers have paid a $ 99 deposit, but it is not clear how many orders will become monthly fixed users, or whether in the network coverage area, and there is no guarantee that the service can be provided, when the deposit will be fully refunded.
“Starlink” network from October last year in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States and other six countries open for testing, users need to pay a monthly fee of $ 99, but also need to pay $ 499 in advance to buy terminals and Wi-Fi routers and other devices. The company said, as the test progressed quite smoothly, the bandwidth and latency problems are greatly improved, and the service is expected to be officially launched this summer at the earliest. SpaceX announced earlier that the number of users of its services has exceeded 10,000.
The report also said that SpaceX has launched more than 1,500 satellites to space, is expected to eventually complete the deployment of 10,000 satellites, the company is expected to make the network coverage at the end of this year, and in the rest of the year to launch other services. On the contrary, Bezos promised to spend $10 billion to build the Kuiper satellite chain, but one has not yet been launched. However, Blue Origin intends to launch the first manned mission to space on July 20, the relevant rocket carries up to six people, one of the seats in the next month in the online public bidding, the market valuation of the winning bid of $50,000.
With the duo’s fierce fight, analysis estimates that the method of making money by space will soon appear, the scale of revenue can reach trillions of dollars, and the winner of this space wrestling will be seen in the next 1, 2 years.
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