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For anyone interested, SpaceX has receives tens of billions in government contracts. "SpaceX: Provides launch services to the DoD, including the launch of clas
by ddxv 2y ago
For anyone interested, SpaceX has receives tens of billions in government contracts.
"SpaceX: Provides launch services to the DoD, including the launch of classified satellites and other payloads. SpaceX's CEO Gwynne Shotwell has said the company has about $22 billion in government contracts. The vast majority of that, about $15 billion, is derived from NASA."
"SpaceX's biggest Pentagon contracts include the $733 million National Security Space Launch contract awarded in October to lift satellites into orbit. The company has been tapped for more Pentagon launch contracts potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars more."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musks-us-department-defense-contracts-2025-02-11/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musks-us-department-de...
For comparison, SpaceX has raised 11B in private funding since 2012:
https://tracxn.com/d/companies/spacex/__UIpPfXSDe2O53VUbJNlNoPlcSwZr-1f_r0ie4BjsSaw/funding-and-investors https://tracxn.com/d/companies/spacex/__UIpPfXSDe2O53VUbJNlN...
- jjk166 2y agoThat's wildly different from what's being discussed here. SpaceX gets paid to launch satellites by the government exactly the same way any other customer would pay to launch satellites. It's not charity, it's payment for services rendered, and SpaceX won those contracts by being cheaper than the competition. The total contract for the development of the SpaceX lunar lander is $2.9 billion which includes the cost of the actual crewed mission to the moon. For reference, each artemis launch is $4.1 billion not including development cost.
- ddxv 2y agoYes, I'm in agreement with you. Just stating the values of the government contracts they received and the private investments.
- carabiner 2y agoShotwell is COO. Musk is CEO of SpaceX.