Elon Musk - his personal wealth is set to enter a totally new stratosphere.Credit:AP
SpaceX currently makes up less than 17 per cent of Musk’s $US241.4 billion ($323 billion) net worth,according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And that’s after the company was valued at $US100 billion in a secondary share sale earlier this month.
Jonas,who has a $200 billion bull-case valuation for SpaceX,wrote that he views it as multiple companies in one,encompassing space infrastructure,Earth observation,deep-space exploration and other industries. Its Starlink satellite-communications business is the biggest contributor to his valuation estimate.
Musk as the world’s first trillionaire has been posited before -- but largely due to Tesla’s predicted share performance. Tesla’s red-hot run that kicked off last year sent Musk’s net worth soaring,and the surge hasn’t really abated. On Monday alone,it boosted its founder’s net worth by $US6.6 billion.
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Musk is calculated to own about half of SpaceX,so the rocket company still has a ways to go before it can single-handedly lift its founder into four-commas orbit.
Last month,SpaceX blasted billionaire Jared Isaacman into orbit,along with two contest winners and a healthcare worker who survived childhood cancer.
It was the first chartered passenger flight for SpaceX and a big step in space tourism by a private company,the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight that no professional astronaut was aboard an orbit-bound rocket.