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SpaceX puts a lot money into research and development, and build out of infrastructure for future use.

So if the company is breaking even, then its manufacturing & launch business must have good margins.

Which means, self launched rockets cost SpaceX noticeably less than their commercial pricing.

SpaceX posted a Q1 2023 profit of $55 million on $1.5 billion in revenue

And the spend about $2 billion on Starship per year.

So $6 billion in, $2 billion on Starship, $4 billion in other costs.

In 2022 they launched 61 times, which is $65 million per launch on average, they charge $67 million per launch.

They got $2 billion from NASA for 2022.

In 2022 they launched 3 crewed missions, 2 for NASA and 1 private.

They don't charge for their own launches.

They got $4 billion from Starlink users, that should cover it

when they spend a launch on their own stuff, they lose out on opportunity cost

no because there are not enough clients