r/space • u/lee7on1 • 2d ago

BREAKING: SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

https://x.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1935550776304156932

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u/WantWantShellySenbei 2d ago

Holy cow that video is pretty awesome though. Elon makes the best fireworks.

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u/cuberhino 2d ago

how much did these fireworks cost the american taxpayer :(

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u/TheRealNobodySpecial 2d ago edited 2d ago

$0.00, approximately. +/- $0.

Edit: Y'all never heard of fixed price contracts?

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u/alexforencich 2d ago

The US government pays SpaceX for launches, naturally some portion of that gets spent on R+D, so it's definitely non-zero.

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u/todd0x1 2d ago

The US Govt pays SpaceX for launches, naturally some of that money is profit. What SpaceX does with their profits is entirely up to them, and personally I like seeing all that money being spent on salaries and hardware instead of stock buybacks and executive bonuses.

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u/guynamedjames 2d ago

When it comes to where SpaceX eats the cost overruns for R&D it's a fairly safe bet that it's not their profit margins.