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SpaceX is privately funded. SpaceX developed its first launch vehicle—獵鷹1號運載火箭—and three 火箭发动机s—默林火箭发动机, Kestrel (火箭发动机), and Draco（英语：）—completely with 资本. SpaceX contracted with the 美國聯邦政府 for a portion of the development funding for the 獵鷹9號運載火箭 launch vehicle, which uses a modified version of the Merlin rocket engine. SpaceX is developing the 獵鷹重型運載火箭 launch vehicle, the 猛禽火箭發動機, and a set of 可重复使用发射系统技术研发项目 with private capital.
截至2012年5月 (2012-05), SpaceX had operated on total funding of approximately $1 billion in its first ten years of operation. Of this, private equity provided about $200M, with Musk investing approximately $100M and other investors having put in about $100M (Founders Fund（英语：）, 德丰杰投资, ...). The remainder has come from progress payments on long-term launch contracts and development contracts. 截至2012年4月 (2012-04), NASA had put in about $400–500M of this amount, with most of that as progress payments on launch contracts. By May 2012, SpaceX had contracts for 40 launch missions, and each of those contracts provide 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 收入确认.
2012年8月In August 2012, SpaceX signed a large development contract with NASA to design and develop a crew-carrying 宇宙飞船 for the "商業載人計劃", in order to re-enable the launch of astronauts from U.S. soil by 2017. Two other companies, Boeing and 内华达山脉公司, received similar development contracts. Advances made by all three companies under Space Act Agreements through NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (商業載人計劃) initiative are intended to ultimately lead to the availability of commercial human spaceflight services for both government and commercial customers. As part of this agreement, SpaceX was awarded a contract worth up to $440 million for contract deliverables between 2012 and May 2014.
At the end of 2012 SpaceX had over 40 launches on its manifest, representing about $4 billion in contract revenue. Many of those contracts were already making progress payments to SpaceX, with both commercial and 美國聯邦政府 (NASA/DOD) customers.截至2013年12月 (2013-12), SpaceX has a total of 50 future launches under contract, two-thirds of them are for commercial customers. In late 2013, space industry media began to comment on the phenomenon that SpaceX 竞争 (经济学) the major competitors in the commercial 通訊衛星 launch market—the 亞利安5號運載火箭 and 質子M型運載火箭—at which time SpaceX had at least 10 further geostationary orbit flights on its books.
In January 2015 SpaceX raised $1 billion in funding from Google and Fidelity, in exchange for 8.333% of the company, establishing the company valuation at approximately $12 billion. Google and Fidelity joined the then current investorship group of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founders Fund, Valor Equity Partners and Capricorn. Although the investment was thought to be related to SpaceX's launch of a 星链 effort, 格温·肖特威尔 said in March 2015 that the investment was not specifically for the global internet project. Google had been searching for a satellite internet partner since the split with O3b网络 and 一网公司.
In 2020, Abu Dhabi-based IHC or International Holding Group bought 94% stakes in a private equity fund namely, Falcon CI IV LP, which had invested in SpaceX. Following the purchase of stakes, SpaceX completed $850 million worth of equity funding round, taking the total value of the company to nearly $74 billion in March 2021. On the other hand, the stock price of IHC also surged to 75%, as of April 2021. IHC is led by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan as the President of the company, who also heads IHC's shareholder, Royal Group. Sheikh Tahnoon, who is the National Security Adviser of UAE also heads several other Abu Dhabi-based ventures like the International Golden Group, which has infamous ties to the Libyan and Yemeni civil war.