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And also consider that most of SpaceX funding comes from contracts from NASA, rather then investors or profits.
by cyber_kinetist 5y ago
And also consider that most of SpaceX funding comes from contracts from NASA, rather then investors or profits.
- neltnerb 5y agoAlthough they do seem to be shifting to more commercial flights now that launch costs are lower and the results are more predictable. And I'm not sure if you consider launching starlink to be "commercial", if you considered it to be an internal customer of the launch service then it seems like it should count.
- pfdietz 5y agoSpaceX has done 130 launches from Falcon 9 demo onward. This includes 25 Dragon cargo launches (24 successful, and include two COTS demo launches) and 5 crew dragon launches, (two demo, one in-flight abort test, and 2 operational launches). There have been a few unmanned NASA launches. So, it's not really correct to say NASA is what's holding them up. They have launched a lot of comsats for other companies, defense payloads, smallsats, foreign government launches, and 29 Starlink launches.