GoKawiilSpaceX VP calls company an 'infrastructure company,' not just a rocket maker
At the UP.Summit conference, SpaceX launch vice president Kiko Dontchev said the company now sees itself primarily as building infrastructure on the ground, in low Earth orbit, and eventually on the Moon and Mars, rather than simply as a rocket builder. He also described rapid adoption of AI tools from xAI, which SpaceX acquired this year, saying engineering tasks that once took hours or days now take seconds to minutes, and that debris inspection on aerospace parts is being automated using Grok.