Ostracized...or worse!
Posted on 12/07/2025 2:04:03 AM PST by SmokingJoe
There is this recurring narrative that SpaceX needs government funding to survive.
Not only does SpaceX not rely on government contracts for the majority of it’s revenue, it’s actually saved the US government Billions of dollars by being far cheaper than the competition.
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SpaceX has come to absolutely dominate the commercial launch business with 84% of all mass put into orbit worldwide - given their rockets are reusable, nobody can even remotely compete on price.
Starlink is another profitable business that is only set to grow.
No kidding, I would love to get a few shares of Starlink when/if the company ever goes public.
It has a worldwide internet presence which is limited only by how fast Starlink can grow the capacity of the network.
Starlink is rapidly growing the capacity and performance of the network with newer generation satellites.
It’s not just Internet access they will come to dominate cell phone traffic in remote or isolated places; cell phones are available that are capable of direct satellite connectivity, rendering cell phones towers less important.
Just like these other recurring narratives:
Billy Jeff Clinton is a faithful husband.
Gavin Newsom has almost completed his Train To Nowhere
The Islamofascistnazis are the Jews best friend .
The commercial and technological success of SpaceX has made competing space programs in Russia, China, and the EU irrelevant. The result is an unexpected but highly advantageous resurgence of US dominance in the space launch business. MAGA on the march.
SpaceX has over 10,000 satellites in orbit, and hundreds more every month. My personal opinion, the subscriptions are going to grow at an exponential rate.
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“..Not only does SpaceX not rely..”
Anybody else find double negatives using the same word in the same sentence annoying? The nuns that taught us in Catholic school 65+ years ago would have ostracized us in front of the whole class for such a thing.
The subscription rate of Starlink is deliberately being held back simply because even at the pace Starlink is putting up satellites, they can’t keep up with new subscribers, especially in countries where telecommunication infrastructure either doesn’t exist or is severely limited.
Why build infrastructure when you can purchase a Starlink dish and have near fiber optic speed at a fraction of the cost.
A video exists of China attempting to bring back a booster and landing it to be used again, the booster exploded on the ground after landing.
China and Russia will eventually perfect reusable rockets, given the cost advantages, anybody with a space program will do the same thing.
BTW, Amazon’s Blue Origin, on a recent launch successfully landed the booster, now the USA has two private companies doing what no other Government has been able to do.
Was Boeing’s cost for a round trip?
Good points. China and Russia both have fundamental issues of transparency and business honesty, quality control, and supply chain strength that undermine their claims as commercial launch partners. In addition, Space-X has a head start and track record of success that are hard to argue against. The EU space program might give Space-X a run eventually, but they seem slow to get going at it.
Every couple days I watch rocket launches from about 50 miles south of the Cape.
Nearly every one comes from Space X.
While NASA. Is tied up in bureaucracy accomplishing very little, to afraid to fail.
Perhaps the EU Space program could possibly be a SpaceX competitor might happen, I think of them as NASA in the EU, filled with friends and butt kissers, who should not be in their positions, spending a lot of money and not accomplishing much of anything.
The EU doesn’t have a launch facility in the continent; I think they still have to launch everything from French Guyana in South America.
Presently there are two space efforts that have pretty much put all others far behind.
They are Space X and China.
China has to pour money into its space program. If it does not become competitive with SpaceX, its dreams of global dominance evaporate.
A minor correction: Blue Origin is a privately held company owned by Jeff Bezos.
Ostracized...or worse!
“Why build infrastructure when you can purchase a Starlink dish...”
AND——IT IS PRIVATE ENTERPRISE !!!
GOTTA LOVE ELON !!!!! I DO.
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