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Who will actually pay to ship "millions of tons to Mars"? SpaceX certainly will not. Almost all of SpaceX's income, absent Starlink subscription fees, traces t
by moloch-hai 4y ago
Who will actually pay to ship "millions of tons to Mars"? SpaceX certainly will not.
Almost all of SpaceX's income, absent Starlink subscription fees, traces to tax dollars.
- m4rtink 4y agoUhm, they do a lot of purely commercial space launches (comsats, LEO missions, commercial dragon flights) even including for some of their direct competitors to Starlink (OneWeb)!
- mlindner 4y ago> SpaceX certainly will not. That's always been a stated goal of SpaceX to do exactly that. That's why they funded on their own dime the development of a massive reusable vehicle that has literally no reason to be that large unless your explicit plan is to design it for interplanetary cargo. > Almost all of SpaceX's income, absent Starlink subscription fees, traces to tax dollars. Not true. As stated explicitly by SpaceX in several years ago, the revenue split of SpaceX was 1/3 NASA, 1/3 other government and 1/3 commercial. But in recent years the commercial fraction has dramatically increased (simply as evidenced by the tremendous numbers of missions happening from non-government customers).
- moloch-hai 4y ago> That's always been a stated goal of SpaceX to do exactly that. Yes, but his lips were moving.