Last year, prior to the big SpaceXplosion — which kind of knocked SpaceX off the rails — we spent a lot of time digging into SpaceX’s finances. We asked: How does SpaceX make money ? And we answered the question: ” How profitable is SpaceX ” when it makes all that money? Much of this was based on educated guesswork, however, as we extrapolated what we knew about the finances at SpaceX rivals Boeing , and applied it to what we thought that might mean for SpaceX’s own finances.