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个月前，美国卫星电视公司EchoStar几乎陷入一场混乱的破产边缘。如今，它可谓真正搭上了火箭。周一，EchoStar同意将价值170亿美元的无线频谱出售给埃隆•马斯克(Elon Musk)的航天公司SpaceX，其中一半交易对价为SpaceX的未上市股份。一个曾经岌岌可危的投资，如今意外成了普通投资者押注马斯克星际雄心的途径。
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