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Equity Method Investments | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2022
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract] |
Equity Method Investments | 6. Equity Method Investments LeoStella The Company accounts for its investment in LeoStella as an equity method investment. The Company did not make any additional capital investments in LeoStella during the three months ended March 31, 2022 or 2021. During the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, the Company remitted $9.7 million and $7.4 million of payments to LeoStella for satellite manufacturing and satellite software development. X-Bow In 2017, the Company entered into a stock subscription and technology transfer agreement with X-Bow, whereby the Company assigned and transferred certain intellectual property rights owned by the Company to X-Bow in exchange for 13.5 million shares of X-Bow, a strategic investment in a space technology company specializing in additive manufacturing of solid rocket motors. As of March 31, 2022, the Company's interest in X-Bow was 15.1%. The following tables present summarized financial information for the Company’s equity method investments as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 and for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021.
|  | March 31, |  | December 31,
Summarized balance sheets |  | 2022 |  | 2021
|  | (in thousands)
Current assets |  | $ | 54,125 |  |  | $ | 60,652 |
Non-current assets |  | 6,857 |  |  | 5,798 |
Total assets |  | $ | 60,982 |  |  | $ | 66,450 |
Current liabilities |  | $ | 34,053 |  |  | $ | 39,612 |
Non-current liabilities |  | 591 |  |  | 706 |
Total liabilities |  | $ | 34,644 |  |  | $ | 40,318 |
|  | Three Months Ended March 31,
Summarized statements of operations |  | 2022 |  | 2021
|  | (in thousands)
Revenue |  | $ | 16,733 |  |  | $ | 6,384 |
Gross margin |  | 2,485 |  |  | 1,420 |
Net income |  | 101 |  |  | 668 |
Current assets of the Company’s equity method investees primarily consisted of inventories of $8.9 million and $17.0 million as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. Total liabilities of the Company’s equity method investees primarily consisted of customer advances from related parties of $30.6 million and $35.2 million as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. The revenue related to equity method investments attributable to related parties was $8.1 million and $6.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The Company has differences between the carrying value of its equity method investments and the underlying equity in the net assets of the investees of $2.6 million as of March 31, 2022 and $2.9 million as of December 31, 2021. The difference is the result of the elimination of upstream intra-entity profits from the sale of satellites.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for equity method investments and joint ventures. Equity method investments are investments that give the investor the ability to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of an investee. Joint ventures are entities owned and operated by a small group of businesses as a separate and specific business or project for the mutual benefit of the members of the group. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 323 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2196965 + Details
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