Just 18 months ago, US satellite TV company EchoStar was on the verge of a messy bankruptcy. Now, it is literally riding a rocket ship. On Monday, EchoStar agreed to sell $17bn of mobile phone spectrum to Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, with half the payment in SpaceX’s unlisted shares. A once shaky investment just became an unlikely way for regular investors to bet on Musk’s interstellar ambitions.
就在18個月前,美國衛星電視公司EchoStar幾乎陷入一場混亂的破產邊緣。如今,它可謂真正搭上了火箭。周一,EchoStar同意將價值170億美元的無線頻譜出售給埃隆?馬斯克(Elon Musk)的航天公司SpaceX,其中一半交易對價為SpaceX的未上市股份。一個曾經岌岌可危的投資,如今意外成了普通投資者押注馬斯克星際雄心的途徑。
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