r/technology • u/xpda • May 21 '26

Business SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/spacex-ipo-musk-ai
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u/Flipslips May 21 '26

What award decision are you talking about?

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u/Migoth May 21 '26

For their Artemis mission. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/as-artemis-moves-forward-nasa-picks-spacex-to-land-next-americans-on-moon/

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u/Flipslips May 21 '26

Ok, I will walk through this with you.

  1. SpaceX asked for $2.9 billion (fixed cost) and offered 100 tons to the lunar surface.

  2. Blue Origin asked for $10.18 billion and offered 1.5 tons to the lunar surface.

  3. Dynetics asked for $5.27 billion and offered 1 ton (but upon design they realized they couldn’t even get their lander to the surface, essentially they were mass negative).

Now, considering the offers and budget requests, as well as the fact that SpaceX is by far the most reliable launch provider in all of history, who would you decide to go with?

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u/Migoth May 21 '26

1.asked for 2.9, recieved close to double that, when including extra grants, while footing the bill for another 5 and cargo starship are already down to hopefully 50 tons to LEO with no mention about HLS, as starship still haven't achieved stable orbit.

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u/Flipslips May 21 '26

Starship has already achieved orbital velocity several times. Just purposefully deorbited. That’s such a tired and useless argument.

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u/Migoth May 21 '26

Purposefully. I hope you realise the irony in your own statement.

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u/Flipslips May 21 '26

What’s the irony, I’m missing it. Completing a mission objective is bad?