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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by seanflyon on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:13PM (#8696653)
> SpaceX basically has just one customer which it is entirely reliant upon.

As far as I can tell NASA accounts for less than half of SpaceX's business. According to their website they have nearly $5 billion in contracts and I can only find reference to just over $2 billion in NASA contracts.

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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:20PM (#8696695)
> As far as I can tell NASA accounts for less than half of SpaceX's business.

NASA ⊂ "The Government"

SpaceX also has Defense (USAF) contracts. At least around $900 million already awarded (and that may not be all), and they recently sued to be allowed to compete for much more under the EELV program.

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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by seanflyon on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @09:14PM (#8697543)
Good point, I hadn't realized the USAF contract was awarded to them yet. That puts government funding at significantly more than half of SpaceX's existing contracts. I still wouldn't say they basically have only one customer, but it's closer than I thought.
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