SpaceX wins $1.6B Space Force contract for 18 Falcon 9 launches

Due to subsidies and investment fraud and subsidized tax breaks to 1% shareholders this will cost the US 10x more than if NASA just did it. People like to say nasa was a bloated waste of money, but thinking beyond k=1 it is obvious privatization costs even more in the long run.

Re: SpaceX wins $1.6B Space Force contract for 18 Falcon 9 launches

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Post by LaffertyDev » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC

mrloopex wrote: post #8

Due to subsidies and investment fraud and subsidized tax breaks to 1% shareholders this will cost the US 10x more than if NASA just did it. People like to say nasa was a bloated waste of money, but thinking beyond k=1 it is obvious privatization costs even more in the long run.

Your argument is that NASA could launch 18 rockets for ~$160 million total or ~8.8 million per launch?

Or is your argument that the "real" cost of this $1.6B SpaceX / Space Force contract is in fact closer to ~$16B or ~$160B after accounting for tax subsidies and investment fraud?

Re: SpaceX wins $1.6B Space Force contract for 18 Falcon 9 launches

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Post by xhkkffbf » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

mrloopex wrote: post #8

Due to subsidies and investment fraud and subsidized tax breaks to 1% shareholders this will cost the US 10x more than if NASA just did it. People like to say nasa was a bloated waste of money, but thinking beyond k=1 it is obvious privatization costs even more in the long run.

Can you go into more detail? You're clearly assigning costs to SpaceX that go beyond the invoice price.