Полёт прототипа Starship SN9 возможен уже совсем скоро / Starship (SpaceX) :: Свидетели Маска :: SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, Американский Батут Корпорейшен) :: разное

Насчёт этого не знаю. Вроде Маск после SN8 писал, что поставят дополнительные баллоны наддува что-б держать давление в баках. SN9 на момент полёта SN8 был уже почти готов, действительно, могли его и не оснастить таким апгрейдом.

Или тупо забыли поменять, учитывая неразбериху с разрешениями ^^

Ownership, funding, and valuation
In August 2008, SpaceX accepted a US$20 million investment from Founders Fund.[94] In early 2012, approximately two-thirds of the company stock was owned by its founder [95] and his 70 million shares were then estimated to be worth US$875 million on private markets,[96] which roughly valued SpaceX at US$1.3 billion as of February 2012.[97] After the COTS 2+ flight in May 2012, the company private equity valuation nearly doubled to US$2.4 billion or US$20/share.[98][99]

By May 2012, — ten years after founding—SpaceX had operated on total funding of approximately US$1 billion over its first decade of operation. Of this, private equity provided approximately US$200 million with Musk investing approximately US$100 million and other investors (Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, etc.) having put in about US$100 million.[100] The remainder had come from progress payments on long-term launch contracts and development contracts, as working capital, not equity.

In January 2015, SpaceX raised US$1 billion in funding from Google and Fidelity, in exchange for 8.33% of the company, establishing the company valuation at approximately US$12 billion. Google and Fidelity joined prior investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founders Fund, Valor Equity Partners and Capricorn Investment Group.[101][102] In July 2017, the Company raised US$350 million for a valuation of US$21 billion.[103]

Congressional testimony by SpaceX in 2017 suggested that the NASA Space Act Agreement process of "setting only a high-level requirement for cargo transport to the space station [while] leaving the details to industry" had allowed SpaceX to design and develop the Falcon 9 rocket on its own at a substantially lower cost. According to NASA's own independently verified numbers, SpaceX's total development cost for both the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets was estimated at approximately US$390 million. In 2011, NASA estimated that it would have cost the agency about US$4 billion to develop a rocket like the Falcon 9 booster based upon NASA's traditional contracting processes, about ten times more.[104]

By March 2018, SpaceX had contracts for 100 launch missions, and each of those contracts provides down payments at contract signing, plus many are paying progress payments as launch vehicle components are built in advance of mission launch, driven in part by US accounting rules for recognizing long-term revenue.[42]

Successful SpaceX launches by year[105]
SpaceX raised a total of US$1.33 billion of capital across three funding rounds in 2019.[106]

In April 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported the company was raising US$500 million in funding.[107] In May 2019, SpaceNews reported SpaceX "raised US$1.022 billion" the day after SpaceX launched 60 satellites towards their 12,000 satellite plan named Starlink broadband constellation.[108][109] By 31 May 2019, the valuation of SpaceX had risen to US$33.3 billion.[110] In June 2019, SpaceX began a raise of US$300 million, most of it from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which then had some US$191 billion in assets under management.[111][needs update]

As of February 2020, SpaceX was raising an additional amount of about US$250 million through equity stock offerings. In May 2020, its valuation reached US$36 billion.[112] On 19 August 2020, after having had finished a US$1.9 billion funding round, one of the largest single fundraising pushes by any privately held company, SpaceX's valuation increased to US$46 billion.[113][114]