The public breakup between Elon Musk and President Trump has cast a pall over the future of SpaceX – but the mogul’s company should remain on a solid trajectory because the two sides need each other.

Trump has counted on his estranged First Buddy’s privately owned firm to fulfill the administration’s plans for NASA to return to the moon, ongoing operations at the International Space Station, a reported classified deal with US intelligence to build hundreds of spy satellites and expanding internet access to rural parts of America.

SpaceX – known for building and launching rockets, and the Starlink satellite internet network – has approximately $22 billion in government contracts on the books, according to Reuters. 4

That includes a roughly $5 billion deal to build the Dragon spacec

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