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Isn't the current government bureaucracy paying for starship development?

• mobilefriendly 6y ago
  No, government funding to hit work milestones is totally different than government bureaucracy attempting to actually do the work.
• bodhiandphysics 6y ago
  Almost not at all... something like 50 million so far for a program whose costs are probably in the low billions. Mostly spacex is paying for it with its capital raises
  • maccam94 6y ago
    Yeah, all I've heard is $53M for testing in-orbit refueling and $135M for developing the lunar lander version of Starship for the Artemis program.
  • dingaling 6y ago
    SpaceX has received contracts worth over $10 billion from the DoD and NASA. Its estimated that they have over 60% of Government launch contracts. That of course is biased towards the contracted projects, but still provides cashflow and leverage for capital.