Sur le financement de SpaceX par la Nasa : https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/c...0170008895.pdf
p25As of June 25, 2017, SpaceX has launched 20 payloads for private sector customers (excluding NASA and DoD). Most of the return of private sector launches to the US since 2012 appears due to the success of SpaceX attracting these customers. To the extent that many of these customers in the US and around the world would have gone elsewhere if an attractively priced US launcher were not available, a behavior seen in the decade before 2012 (Figure 11), that capital would have gone abroad. As occurs, that money ended up in the US – 20 times. This is about $1.2 billion dollars in payments for launch services that stayed in the US rather than going abroad (at ~$60M per launch). Considering NASA invested only about $140M attributable to the Falcon 9 portion of the COTS program, it is arguable that the US Treasury has already made that initial investment back and then some merely from the taxation of jobs at SpaceX and its suppliers only from non-government economic activity. The over $1 billion (net difference) is US economic activity that would have otherwise mostly gone abroad.
Bon, là ils sont empêtrés dans leur planning, mais a priori, ça fera 19 lancements en 2017... Dont 5 avec des premier étages réutilisés (sachant que pour le premier, ils avaient dit que le retrofit leur avait coûté "bien moins que la moitié d'un booster neuf", et qu'ils n'offrent que 5 à 10% de rabais lorsqu'ils sont réutilisés). 13 récupération sur 13 tentatives (sur les 16 déjà lancés), et 2 dragons réutilisés (pour le coup le premier leur avait coûté "probablement plus qu'un neuf" ).
Bref, ça commence à rouler.