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From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@deepplum.com>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] a bit more starship news
Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 14:05:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ62bPiyginvJ6Gkb6KEq2epjt=C=Km5cvJuWe7nFDCGvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1682974911.992311793@apps.rackspace.com>

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On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 2:01 PM David P. Reed via Starlink <
starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> 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.
>

Meaning, for one fiscal quarter (ie a 3-month period) they made more money
than they spent.  "...they had a quarter of..." means the 3-month period of
the calendar (a quarter), not 25% of the business.  :)


-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-01 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.9.1682956802.8936.starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
2023-05-01 21:01 ` David P. Reed
2023-05-01 21:05   ` Freddie Cash [this message]
2023-05-01 21:09   ` David Lang
2023-05-01 22:32     ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-05-01 22:45       ` David Lang
2023-04-30 12:48 Dave Taht
2023-04-30 21:48 ` David Lang
2023-05-03  2:42 ` Luis A. Cornejo
2023-05-03  2:45   ` Dave Taht

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