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What is the target market? Would most of the customers likely be governments?

• rst 14y ago
  Their current work is under contract to NASA; they're one of three private companies developing spacecraft for possible future use in ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station. (The other two are Boeing and the Sierra Nevada corporation, a defense contractor.) Other possible markets would include space tourism and research trips to private space stations, along the lines of what Bigelow Aerospace is trying to develop. As to governments other than the US, SpaceX could probably sell launch services, but it would be a lot harder for them to sell the rockets (or, probably, spacecraft) to foreign governments. A lot of that technology comes under fairly tight arms trading regulations (for good reason; any launch vehicle can be transformed into an ICBM by reprogramming the guidance system).