Space Exploration Technologies

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American space transport company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, both of which are built with a goal of being reusable launch vehicles. SpaceX has developed the Dragon spacecraft to be carried to orbit by Falcon 9 launch vehicles. SpaceX designs, tests and fabricates the majority of their components in-house, including the Merlin, Kestrel, and Draco rocket engines. In December 2010, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft (a Dragon).

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Campaign Finance

$46,950 Given
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Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

covers through Q3 2012

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View all campaign finance data for Space Exploration Technologies Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$4,053,958 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Space Exploration Technologies

View all lobbying data for Space Exploration Technologies Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 28 dockets; Submitted to 3 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Space Exploration Technologies" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Federal Spending

23 contracts
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Federal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.

Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.

Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.

covers through USASpending.gov's Sept. 15, 2012 release for contracts and Oct. 19, 2012 for grants.

Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.

Type Recipient Name Year Agency Description Amount
contract
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2012 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES $150,336,817
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 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2011 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES. $76,597,276
contract
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2011 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES. $59,596,841
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 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2012 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES $55,478,451
contract
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2012 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES. $38,048,826
contract
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2011 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES. $29,616,418
contract
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2010 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES. $26,445,050
contract
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2011 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES. $25,800,000
contract
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2010 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES. $25,671,000
contract
 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 2010 National Aeronautics And Space Administration ISS COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICES. $23,767,902
View all grant & loan data for Space Exploration Technologies View all contract data for Space Exploration Technologies Sources: USASpending.gov

Advisory Committees

1 person on 1 committee
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Space Exploration Technologies" that sat on federal advisory committees.

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View all advisory committee data for Space Exploration Technologies