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Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX cuts one tenth of workforce

16th January 2019

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX cuts one tenth of workforce Pin It

Company cites ‘extraordinarily difficult times ahead’ behind decision to slash about 600 employees

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX will reduce its workforce by about 10% of the company’s more than 6,000 employees.

The company said it will “part ways” with some of its manpower, citing “extraordinarily difficult challenges ahead”.

“To continue delivering for our customers and to succeed in developing interplanetary spacecraft and a global space-based Internet, SpaceX must become a leaner company. Either of these developments, even when attempted separately, have bankrupted other organisations,” a spokesman said in an email.

In June, Elon Musk fired at least seven people in the senior management team leading a SpaceX satellite launch project, it was reported in November. The firings were related to disagreements over the pace at which the team was developing and testing its Starlink satellites.

SpaceX’s Starlink program is competing with OneWeb and Canada’s Telesat to be the first to market with a new satellite-based internet service.

The management shakeup involved Musk bringing in new managers from SpaceX headquarters in California to replace a number of the managers he fired in Seattle.

Last month, SpaceX launched its first US national security space mission, when a SpaceX rocket carrying a US military navigation satellite blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral.

In December, the Wall Street Journal reported that SpaceX was raising $500m, taking its valuation to $30.5bn (£23.7bn).

TheCalifornia-based company had earlier outlined plans for a trip to Mars in 2022, to be followed by a manned mission to the red planet by 2024.

Another Elon Musk company, electric car maker Tesla Inc., said in June it was cutting 9% of its workforce by removing several thousand jobs across the company in cost reduction measures.

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