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NASA is the largest single customer of SpaceX but does not make up the lion's share of SpaceX launches.
by _Microft 5y ago
NASA is the largest single customer of SpaceX but does not make up the lion's share of SpaceX launches.
- sebzim4500 5y agoMaybe they consider Starlink to be a customer of SpaceX? NASA would still be the largest customer though, with 36 launches versus Starlink's 33. That would probably change by the end of the year though.
- trothamel 5y agoThat is sort of of what I was thinking. It's not exactly right, but out of 20 launches in the first half of 2021, you have 13 Starlinks, 2 Transporter (SpaceX-brokered rideshare), 2 NASA (Crew/Commercial Resupply), 2 Commercial, and 1 Space Corps. The second half of the year looks more NASA-Heavy, with CRS-23, Crew 3, and CRS-24, plus 2 science satellite. But that's among 17 other missions. I guess my point is that SpaceX probably won't lose NASA, but they're not as dependent on government business as ULA is.