Rockets, Riches, and a Reality Check for Space Investors
That £6 Billion Profit That Shook the Heavens
For years, I’ve watched the space industry with a healthy dose of British scepticism. It all felt a bit like a school science project, but with bigger budgets and even bigger egos. Rockets go up, some come down, and billionaires talk about Mars. Jolly good fun, but hardly the stuff of a serious investment portfolio. Then, a rather inconvenient number popped up. SpaceX reportedly turned an eight billion dollar profit. That’s about six billion pounds, for those of us keeping score on this side of the pond.
Suddenly, it’s not just about grand visions and fiery launches. It’s about cash. Cold, hard, printable cash. This one figure has done more to legitimise the commercial space race than a thousand successful landings. It proves that there’s a brutally effective business model hiding behind all the futuristic talk. And with whispers of a 2026 IPO getting louder, the question is no longer if investors will take this sector seriously, but how they can get a piece of the action.
