Re: [Starlink] a bit more starship news

[Ulrich Speidel <u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz>]

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.

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 <david@lang.hm>
>> ...
>>> 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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