Something tells me the data that is coming from satellitemap.space is very accurate especially since the NOAA has a lot of job openings now.

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    Because they launch them in large batches using a reusable rocket, so it doesn’t actually cost much. They did work out the economics of Starlink before they started building the system.

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      When they worked out those details they also thought they would have 20,000,000 subscribers before now and not just 2,000,000

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        They are nevertheless already profitable, and they haven’t even begun using Starship to launch satellites yet.

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            There are government users among their customers, yes. Customers are customers. Is this supposed to be a negative?

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              A requirement for posting here is being obsessed with raging over Elon Musk. I think everyone got kinda bored of raging over Trump every 5 minutes so they found a new bandwagon