Monday, September 29, 2014

US spending on SpaceX

I summarize the summary. SpaceX was founded in 2002.

Duplicate entries removed from list. The last date in any year is the final revised number. However, the latest date may not be the highest number, so I use the higher number to err on the side of caution.

About $11 million before 2012. Billions coming only in the last few years. Update: Read Paul's comment before you quote me on this. The way I looked at the data doesn't jive with other representations.

The bump seems to come in 2010. Before that, Paul's listing adds up to $33.9 million. Which is about a tenth of what was privately funded. $25.7m of that 33.9 came in SpaceX's 7th year by which time they had already built two rockets, multiple engines, and had successfully reached orbit twice.

2002...
  None (just to be explicit.)

2003...
  12-25-2003... $3.50M

2004...
  12-29-2004... $3.00M
  02-12-2004... $354.51K

2005...
  None (just to be explicit.)

2006...
  05-19-2006... $30.00K

2007...
  None (just to be explicit.)

2008...
  09-24-2008...$4.00M
  07-17-2008... $4.00M
  05-06-2008... $4.00M

2009...
  None (just to be explicit.)

2010...
  03-12-2010... $129.91K

2011...
  11-09-2011... $499.79K
  11-09-2011... $282.76K
  11-09-2011... $230.44K
  11-09-2011... $174.56K
  11-09-2011... $24.40K
  11-09-2011... $20.00K
  09-28-2011... $328.38K
  08-31-2011... $198.86K
  07-07-2011... $294.92K
  01-12-2011... $104.46K

2012...
  12-19-2012... $16.75M
  12-10-2012... $3.83M
  12-03-2012... $16.45M
  11-07-2012... $14.04M
  10-21-2012... $14.04M
  09-23-2012... $11.93M
  08-29-2012... $9.46M
  07-25-2012... $8.20M
  07-17-2012... $7.69M
  05-16-2012... $1.36M
  04-03-2012... $1.36M
  02-14-2012... $822.56K

2013...
  12-23-2013... $36.11M
  11-18-2013... $1.47M
  11-07-2013... $35.14M
  10-17-2013... $35.14M
  10-10-2013... $901.63M
  09-27-2013... $3.10M
  09-25-2013... $901.63M
  09-11-2013... $35.14M
  09-04-2013... $23.54M
  08-27-2013... $957.33M
  08-21-2013... $955.10M
  07-30-2013... $23.27M
  03-13-2013... $170.96M
  03-04-2013... $96.90M
  03-04-2013... $4.53M
  03-04-2013... $50.82K...
  01-03-2013... $1.17M

2014...
  09-03-2014... $1.23B
  09-23-2014... $129.30M
  09-25-2014... $61.48M
  09-10-2014... $47.56M
  08-07-2014... $2.07M
  07-23-2014... $47.56M
  07-08-2014... $1.22B
  06-08-2014...$2.18M
  06-05-2014... $47.56M
  04-10-2014... $7.08M
  03-12-2014... $47.16M
  02-17-2014... $4.50M
  02-12-2014... $982.77M
  02-10-2014... $46.85M
  01-29-2014... $36.30M
  01-06-2014... $982.78M

Plus these...
$-1,348,656.00
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
DEPT OF DEFENSE
TRANSPORTATION/TRAVEL/RELOCATION- TRANSPORTATION: SPACE TRANSPORTATION/LAUNCH
08-26-2014
...
...
$-10,900,892.00
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
DEPT OF DEFENSE
TRANSPORTATION/TRAVEL/RELOCATION- TRANSPORTATION: SPACE TRANSPORTATION/LAUNCH
08-13-2013
...
...
$-21,936,005.00
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
DEPT OF DEFENSE
TRANSPORTATION/TRAVEL/RELOCATION- TRANSPORTATION: SPACE TRANSPORTATION/LAUNCH
08-13-2013

Why, if you are wondering, did I do this?

2 comments:

Paul451 said...

If you switch the USAspending.gov list from "List of Transactions" to "Summary" and scroll down, then click "List View" under the year-by-year graph. You could have saved yourself some work.

Summary, list view

2003: $0.5m
2004: $3.4m
2005: $0.03m
2006/2007: nil
2008: $4m
2009: $25.7m
2010: $115.3m
2011: $194.6m (Subtotal: $343.53m)
2012: $256.3m
2013: $594.2m
2014: $497.4m (TTD: $1691.43m)

And this is the all the transactions for the contract-ID (FA881813D0003) that contains those negative amounts:

Contract list

03-04-2013 - $96.90M
03-04-2013 - $4.53M
03-04-2013 - $50.82K
03-13-2013 - $170.96M
08-13-2013 - $-10,900,892.00
08-13-2013 - $-21,936,005.00
09-10-2013 - $0
09-10-2013 - $0
02-17-2014 - $4.50M
03-18-2014 - $0
04-10-2014 - $7.08M
04-13-2014 - $0
06-11-2014 - $0
07-14-2014 - $0
08-26-2014 - $-1,348,656.00

My guess is that they are variations on the 2013 contract, some increasing, some decreasing, some just changing terms or dates with no cost.

ken_anthony said...

Yeah,now ya tell me, Paul!

It was a pain making it. I see some inconsistencies between the lists which is troubling. It would be nice to have something definitive.

Thanks for coming by.