{"id":472365,"date":"2026-02-11T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472365\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:33:09","slug":"elon-musk-says-nasa-will-account-for-only-5-of-spacexs-revenue-in-2026-i-love-nasa-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472365\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says NASA Will Account For Only 5% Of SpaceX’s Revenue In 2026: ‘I Love NASA, But…’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared that NASA would account for only 5% of the commercial space flight company’s 2026 revenue, touting the Starlink satellite internet service<\/a> as a major income stream instead.<\/p>\n

Responding to a post on the social media platform X on Sunday, which disagreed with the opinion that Musk would need to rely on military financing to keep his enterprises going.<\/p>\n

Musk, in his response, shared that he loved NASA but acknowledged that it wasn’t going to be a major source of SpaceX’s income. “They will only be ~5% of SpaceX revenue this year,” Musk said. He then added that the Starlink commercial system would instead make up for the “vast majority of SpaceX revenue.”<\/p>\n

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True. I love NASA, but they will only be ~5% of SpaceX revenue this year. <\/p>\n

Vast majority of SpaceX revenue is the commercial Starlink system.<\/p>\n

SpaceX reportedly generated a revenue of close to $16 billion in 2025, with the company also generating an $8 billion profit, most of which comes from its Starlink business, which accounted for 50% to 80% of the revenue.<\/p>\n

Musk had, in the past, suggested that NASA would make up close to 7% of the company’s total revenue. The billionaire shared that SpaceX won the contracts through competitive bids for various contracts, including astronaut and cargo transport to the Space Station and more.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX’s projected revenue for this year is said to be in the $24 billion range, according to BNN Bloomberg, as the company announced a merger with Musk-backed xAI amid a potential IPO in June<\/a> and rumors of a merger with Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:<\/a>TSLA<\/a>). If Musk’s comments are true, then NASA’s contribution to the revenue would go up from close to $1 billion in 2025 to $1.2 billion this year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the commercial space flight company has pivoted its efforts to focus on reaching the moon, putting Musk’s long-talked-about ambitions of building a colony on Mars. “The overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster,” Musk said in a post on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared that NASA would account for only 5% of the commercial space flight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,3120,131,128,285,5437],"class_list":["post-472365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-elon-musk","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}