From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lang.hm (unknown [66.167.227.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C26363B29E for ; Mon, 1 May 2023 18:45:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dlang-mobile (unknown [10.2.2.69]) by mail.lang.hm (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DBC18AA95; Mon, 1 May 2023 15:45:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 15:45:01 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang To: Ulrich Speidel cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net In-Reply-To: <910f6b3e-56ec-63a3-dcda-233ea02c162f@auckland.ac.nz> Message-ID: <063pnp8n-o7n0-11s9-n150-6r001qp1o06q@ynat.uz> References: <1682974911.992311793@apps.rackspace.com> <910f6b3e-56ec-63a3-dcda-233ea02c162f@auckland.ac.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [Starlink] a bit more starship news X-BeenThere: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. Bad." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 22:45:02 -0000 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 >>> ... >>>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Starlink mailing list >> Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Starlink mailing list >> Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >> >