雖然在很多圈外人眼中,太空探索技術(shù)公司(SpaceX)似乎正欣欣向榮,但其創(chuàng)始人埃隆·馬斯克在今年感恩節(jié)過后的第二天向全公司員工發(fā)送了一封電子郵件,他表示,該公司的猛禽(Raptor)發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)發(fā)展停滯不前,因而使SpaceX面臨著“真正的破產(chǎn)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)”。
航空航天資訊網(wǎng)站Space Explored首先對這封郵件進(jìn)行了報(bào)道,隨后美國消費(fèi)者新聞與商業(yè)頻道(CNBC)證實(shí)了消息的真實(shí)性。從這封郵件中,可以看出馬斯克對猛禽發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)的生產(chǎn)效率表示失望。[猛禽發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)是用來為星艦(Starship)提供動(dòng)力的引擎。]
“與幾周前相比,猛禽發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)的生產(chǎn)危機(jī)已經(jīng)變得更加嚴(yán)重。前高管離職后,公司對其相關(guān)問題進(jìn)行了深入調(diào)查。然而我們很遺憾地發(fā)現(xiàn),事態(tài)比之前通報(bào)過的情況更嚴(yán)重,已經(jīng)無法再粉飾太平。我很久都沒有休過假了,本來打算這周末休假,但現(xiàn)在假期宣告泡湯,整個(gè)周末我都會(huì)在猛禽發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)生產(chǎn)線上通宵工作?!瘪R斯克在郵件中說道。
馬斯克在郵件中沒有詳述“前高管”的信息,但前推進(jìn)系統(tǒng)副總裁威爾·赫爾茨利已經(jīng)于一周前離職。
馬斯克表示,“如果明年星艦的飛行頻率達(dá)不到至少兩周一次”,那么SpaceX就會(huì)切實(shí)面臨破產(chǎn)的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。他敦促員工,即便是周末,也得回去加班。他說:“坦白地說,公司正在面臨著一場災(zāi)難,所有員工都必須枕戈待旦,除非家里出了特別重要的事情,或者本人無法回到霍桑上班?!?/p>
SpaceX目前的市值超過1000億美元,員工達(dá)7000名。該公司已經(jīng)建立了太空旅游部門,最近還擊敗杰夫·貝佐斯的藍(lán)色起源公司(Blue Origin),贏得了美國國家航空航天局(NASA)一項(xiàng)29億美元的大合同。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:Transn
雖然在很多圈外人眼中,太空探索技術(shù)公司(SpaceX)似乎正欣欣向榮,但其創(chuàng)始人埃隆·馬斯克在今年感恩節(jié)過后的第二天向全公司員工發(fā)送了一封電子郵件,他表示,該公司的猛禽(Raptor)發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)發(fā)展停滯不前,因而使SpaceX面臨著“真正的破產(chǎn)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)”。
航空航天資訊網(wǎng)站Space Explored首先對這封郵件進(jìn)行了報(bào)道,隨后美國消費(fèi)者新聞與商業(yè)頻道(CNBC)證實(shí)了消息的真實(shí)性。從這封郵件中,可以看出馬斯克對猛禽發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)的生產(chǎn)效率表示失望。[猛禽發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)是用來為星艦(Starship)提供動(dòng)力的引擎。]
“與幾周前相比,猛禽發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)的生產(chǎn)危機(jī)已經(jīng)變得更加嚴(yán)重。前高管離職后,公司對其相關(guān)問題進(jìn)行了深入調(diào)查。然而我們很遺憾地發(fā)現(xiàn),事態(tài)比之前通報(bào)過的情況更嚴(yán)重,已經(jīng)無法再粉飾太平。我很久都沒有休過假了,本來打算這周末休假,但現(xiàn)在假期宣告泡湯,整個(gè)周末我都會(huì)在猛禽發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)生產(chǎn)線上通宵工作?!瘪R斯克在郵件中說道。
馬斯克在郵件中沒有詳述“前高管”的信息,但前推進(jìn)系統(tǒng)副總裁威爾·赫爾茨利已經(jīng)于一周前離職。
馬斯克表示,“如果明年星艦的飛行頻率達(dá)不到至少兩周一次”,那么SpaceX就會(huì)切實(shí)面臨破產(chǎn)的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。他敦促員工,即便是周末,也得回去加班。他說:“坦白地說,公司正在面臨著一場災(zāi)難,所有員工都必須枕戈待旦,除非家里出了特別重要的事情,或者本人無法回到霍桑上班?!?/p>
SpaceX目前的市值超過1000億美元,員工達(dá)7000名。該公司已經(jīng)建立了太空旅游部門,最近還擊敗杰夫·貝佐斯的藍(lán)色起源公司(Blue Origin),贏得了美國國家航空航天局(NASA)一項(xiàng)29億美元的大合同。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))
譯者:Transn
While SpaceX seems to be flying high to many outsiders, founder Elon Musk, in a companywide email sent the day after Thanksgiving, said the lack of progress toward the company’s Raptor engines puts SpaceX at a “genuine risk of bankruptcy.”
The letter, first reported by Space Explored and confirmed by CNBC, shows Musk’s frustration with the pace of Raptor engine production. (The Raptor is the engine that propels the Starship rocket.)
“The Raptor production crisis is much worse than it had seemed a few weeks ago,” he wrote. “As we have dug into the issues following the exiting of prior senior management, they have unfortunately turned out to be far more severe than was reported. There is no way to sugarcoat this. I was going to take this weekend off, as my first weekend off in a long time, but instead, I will be on the Raptor line all night and through the weekend.”
While Musk did not elaborate on “prior senior management,” Will Heltsley, former VP of propulsion, departed the company a week ago.
Musk said the bankruptcy risk was real “if we cannot achieve a Starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year.” He urged employees to return to work, despite the holiday weekend, saying, “Unless you have critical family matters or cannot physically return to Hawthorne, we will need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster.”
SpaceX has a valuation of over $100 billion and employs 7,000 people. The company has launched a space tourism division and recently bested Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin in a fight over a $2.9 billion NASA contract.