SpaceX Restricts Live Broadcasts To X. Is Elon Musk Leaving YouTube In The Dark?

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX is seemingly limiting live broadcasting solely to its CEO’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

What Happened: On Sunday night, SpaceX launched 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida and later returned crew-6 to Earth after almost 186 days in space. Neither the launch nor the splashdown were broadcast on SpaceX’s channel on YouTube. However, they were live-streamed on X.

The last activity that was streamed on SpaceX’s YouTube channel was that of the Dragon spacecraft carrying Crew-6 autonomously undocking from the station. The prescheduled live stream for the subsequent splashdown was later removed.

Why It Matters: Late last month, Musk livestreamed the test drive of version 12 of Tesla Inc‘s full self-driving software on X. The 45-minute-long livestream gathered 11.7 million viewers.

The limiting of SpaceX’s broadcasts to X hints at a consolidation of Musk’s companies on X, including SpaceX and Tesla. The billionaire’s The Boring Company and Neuralink are also active on X.

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