On Tue, 2 May 2023, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:
I'd add that with what is probably a couple of million subscribers
worldwide by now at US$100/month and growing fast, it gives you a fair
idea as to how much you can accomplish with $200 million or so a month
at your disposal. I remember O3b putting its initial constellation into
orbit at around $1.2 billion - half a year's worth of Starlink income at
most - but a multi-year endeavour. You can blow up a lot of launch pads
and rockets for that, especially if you build them cheap.
not to mention that Falcon 9s are much cheaper than what was available at that
point (they've successfully underbid companies listing $25M for a launch, so
that seems like a reasonalbe figure to use for their internal costs)
David Lang
On 2/05/2023 9:09 am, David Lang via Starlink wrote:
On Mon, 1 May 2023, David P. Reed via Starlink wrote:
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:48:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Lang <[email protected]>
...
the V2 mini satllites do not have the same capability as the full V2
satellites,
they are cut down in capacity as well as in size to fit them on a
Falcon 9.
I would not be surprised to see v2 satellites launched on Starship
later this
year.
Gwen Shotwell said late last year that they had a quarter of
Starlink having
positive cash flow, and that it's expected to be profitable in 2023
"Quarter of Starlink having positive cash flow" means what exactly?
I.'ve never heard a quarter of a corporation having positive cash
flow as any kind of business metric.
that it earns more money than it spent in that 3 month period, and
expected to do the same in 2023.
SpaceX is private (so it doesn't have to impress the Wall Street
clueless folks), it deosn't get 'cost plus' contracts. There is far
less incentive to do creative accounting than if either of these were
true.
David Lang
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