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Comment by jimnotgym

11 hours ago

I'm not sure it is an open market that anyone could join. The US government seems to favour domestic supply. Therefore I believe it is a subsidy, yes

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adastra22  8 hours ago

Pretty much all of the commercial rocket companies are in America. There is competition between them. In the amount of money that SpaceX gets from the government is quite small compared to its overall operating expenses. They launched 90% of all mass to orbit, most of which is commercial.

The “SpaceX lives on government subsidies” thing is a myth.