[fast_e_man]

Jim,

If you do some google searches you'll find the information on campaign contributions, the amount of taxpayer money that is subsidizing SpaceX, and the loans made to Tesla. I don't have a set of hot links saved to paste in. I think most of that has been in WSJ articles as well.

The SpaceX launch performance and current events on exceptions to gov't shutdown is not in the public domain, so I can't tell you how I know. You could go to youtube and search for Gwynn Shotwell, she is the pres of Spacex. She did a post launch interview where she alluded to "an issue" and then realized that might not be good to advertise (it was an engine problem). After that SpaceX doesn't say anything. Might be a follow up article by one of the trade pubs.

but, this is a thread on Li+ car batteries

Ed