SpaceX Funding Debate

Just thought SpaceX had other revenue sources, I guess.

Spacex might be a private company, but this project is funded by NASA, meaning the American taxpayer. Approved by a person whose last act was this approval before leaving NASA and joining Spacex (effectively putting money in their own pocket).It is also yet to be seen how Starship will ever be profitable (outside of spending government money), who is going to pay for those launches and for what purpose. Other than Starlink, of course.

Would you have examples? Starting SpaceX required far more capital than NASA?

How about "Money!".Glibness aside, it's a private enterprise and is profitable, so even without mentioning Musk's ultimate goal of colonizing Mars, its existence needs no further justification. It makes money and its shareholders are happy.And before someone jumps in with the "SpaceX-is-propped-up-by-the-government" canard, the U.S. government also saves money when it launches military satellites with SpaceX. According to [1] (among many other sources), SpaceX

SpaceX is mainly alive because NASA/government poured tons of money in it, so not exactly the best example:"As a company, their total contracts are worth $12 billion including commercial satellite launches as well as NASA and U.S. government missions. Of that total, $5.5 billion is from government contracts from NASA and the Air Force."Basically what could have been done (and was done, and reached the moon and built the space bus etc) on government money, is now paid to a pr

Doesn't SpaceX receive plenty of money from the US?

Why would SpaceX want more funding?

What works for SpaceX is having massive government handouts.https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/tech/spacex-starlink-subsidie...https:/

You're missing the point that SpaceX development is (heavily) publicly subsidized.

Where are you getting those numbers? SpaceX is a private company.