How has Starlink has gone from zero to profitability in five years?

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  • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Amazon also has to actually build satellites at some point. They could have already been launching on the Atlas Vs they bought. And having Kuiper sats ready would mean ULA doesn’t have to launch the 2nd Vulcan with a mass sim.

    • threelonmusketeersMEnglish
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      6 months ago

      They could have already been launching on the Atlas Vs they bought

      They did do a launch last December October. They need to pick up the pace a bit.

      • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I guess that delay from the Kuiper test sats in Oct '23 to the first operational launch soon™ isn’t really different from SpaceX going from the Tintin test sats in Feb '18 to operational sats in May '19. I’m just impatient.