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SpaceX Begging Feds To Ground Apple-Funded Rival's Satellites
(www.jalopnik.com)
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Uh, basically no.
NASA has experiments to run, spaceX has no idea what science NASA is interested in doing. So having SpaceX make the payload doesn't really make a lot of sense.
So it sounds like they are codependent at this point. The bigger the nasa budget the better for space X.
I mean, that's always been the case. That's literally spaceX's primary job, putting things in space for NASA. It's the same for every launch provider in the US.