{"id":615773,"date":"2026-08-01T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/615773\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:20:11","slug":"will-spacex-paint-its-rocket-pink-investor-questions-go-beyond-moon-and-mars-ahead-of-first-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/615773\/","title":{"rendered":"Will SpaceX paint its rocket pink? Investor questions go beyond Moon and Mars ahead of first results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug 1 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s (SPCX.O), opens new tab<\/a> first earnings call as a public company may be expected to focus on AI spending and profits from its Starlink satellite communications network, but many retail investors have other things on their minds.Taking a \u200bpage from Elon Musk’s other big company, Tesla, newly public rocket maker SpaceX has opened an online \u200cvenue for investors to ask questions ahead of a call about results that is expected to feature Musk. Users can submit questions, opens new tab<\/a> and vote on which ones will be answered, creating a list ranked by popularity.<\/p>\n

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Among the most popular shareholder questions submitted ahead of Tuesday’s call were \u200brequests for more footage of Starship’s Human Landing System, the vehicle designed to carry astronauts to the moon \u200bfor NASA’s Artemis program next year.<\/p>\n

Investors also asked whether Asteroid, SpaceX’s recently unveiled Shiba Inu mascot, \u2060celebrated with a $35 plush toy, could take on a larger role in education, children’s charities and outreach.<\/p>\n

Other shareholders wanted \u200bto know when the new Starship would begin refueling in orbit, when it would catch both its booster and upper stage, \u200band how to improve the rocket’s look.<\/p>\n

“Can we paint the rocket pink?” a user asked.<\/p>\n

Another suggested selling sponsorships for individual heat shield tiles so fans could have their names flown into space.<\/p>\n

The eclectic mix of questions comes after SpaceX set aside roughly 30% of its IPO \u200bshares for retail investors, one of the largest individual investor allocations in a major U.S. listing.<\/p>\n

SpaceX’s shares lost more than \u200bhalf their value from their post-IPO intraday peak. Still, questions about its business outlook and finances were relatively unpopular, and those that \u200cdid get \u2060some support focused on issues such as timing of sending orbital AI data centers into space rather than finances.<\/p>\n

When the company’s AI business could begin paying for itself was question number 183 as of late on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Tesla posted its own results Wednesday last week and investors then repeatedly pressed Musk about a potential merger with SpaceX, including several questions that \u200battracted more than 100 votes.<\/p>\n

But \u200bthe same topic barely \u2060registered on SpaceX’s forum, where it appeared just once with a single upvote on Friday morning, the morning after the Wall Street Journal reported that executives at Tesla have been told \u200bto prepare for a separation of its China business ahead of a potential merger. \u200bMusk denied the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most \u2060retail investors were optimistic about SpaceX’s future, but one user questioned whether Musk’s own long-term vision made investing worthwhile. Musk has said advances in AI and robotics could eventually create a world of abundance where goods and services become so inexpensive that \u2060money may \u200blose much of its importance.<\/p>\n

“If money won’t matter in 10 years like \u200bElon recently stated… then why should people buy more shares and invest more money?” the investor asked. The question received no upvotes with four days \u200bleft till the company publishes its first quarterly results.<\/p>\n

Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; editing by Peter Henderson and David Gregorio<\/p>\n

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Akash reports on technology companies in the United States, electric vehicle companies, and the space industry. His reporting usually appears in the Autos & Transportation and Technology sections. He has a postgraduate degree in Conflict, Development, and Security from the University of Leeds. Akash’s interests include music, football (soccer), and Formula 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 1 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s (SPCX.O), opens new tab first earnings call as a public company may be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[82495,82496,82519,82793,84441,1300,82499,36586,84105,96075,82500,82995,84110,82530,82531,83787,82529,18,96076,97937,45748,19,82504,82505,17,84435,93734,82524,83788,82510,84437,96072,102514,105112,96071,84113,82994,17588,82512,133,2612,84115,451,82965,82968,82513,82801,83004,753,82999,83005,30150,95732,96073,84439,107,84458,84459],"class_list":["post-615773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aer","tag-aero","tag-amers","tag-arti","tag-aut","tag-auto","tag-bact","tag-biz","tag-blr","tag-carm","tag-cmpny","tag-coms","tag-cycs","tag-destocabsm","tag-destousbsm","tag-destousscm","tag-destoustcm","tag-eire","tag-eleav","tag-fine1","tag-gen","tag-ie","tag-indg","tag-inds","tag-ireland","tag-itse","tag-mlaisv","tag-namer","tag-packageus-science","tag-publ","tag-ratiadas-av-safety","tag-ratielectrification-zero-emmision","tag-ratiev-strategy","tag-ratisoftware-defined-vehicle","tag-ratisustainable-ev-supply-chain","tag-ret","tag-rulesresults","tag-satcom","tag-sci","tag-science","tag-shop","tag-shopal","tag-space","tag-spacem","tag-spc","tag-spex","tag-swit","tag-tcom","tag-tech","tag-teeq","tag-tel","tag-tmt","tag-topicbusiness-elon-musk","tag-topicrati-supply-chain-manufacturing","tag-topicrati-technology","tag-us","tag-wles","tag-wles1"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}