bulboustadpole t1_j24suil wrote
Reply to comment by FlatRobots in SpaceX launches 54 upgraded Starlink internet satellites and nails rocket landing at sea in 60th flight of the year by ovirt001
They're also selling their hardware at a massive loss. I've seen estimates that they lose around $500 per dish they sell based on tech channels tearing them down.
trolldango t1_j24tc2r wrote
How many months of a subscription does that take to pay down? 5? How long will the average subscriber stay — a year? A decade? Until the well-loved Comcast decides to build into their remote location?
bulboustadpole t1_j25oj75 wrote
No idea, but it seems to be around $100 a month. Considering Elon said starlink would need to use starship to not go bankrupt, I have no idea how this company will survive. Next you get into the issue with scaling this which is the biggest hurdle. To get more revenue you need more subscribers. More subscribers means you will need to launch more satellites. This gets you into basically a feedback loop. They've probably burned through billions so far and I can't see any viable way of recouping that loss in the future.
AmIHigh t1_j265qya wrote
What do you mean you don't know how it'll survive?
They complete starship.
They can keep getting investments in the meantime.
Reddit-runner t1_j266hv0 wrote
>Elon said starlink would need to use starship to not go bankrupt, I have no idea how this company will survive
By using Starship to get more Starlink sats into orbit, presumably.
bulboustadpole t1_j267pui wrote
It was supposed to be flying already and it isn't. That's a big deal. It still hasn't made a full test flight.
Reddit-runner t1_j268b89 wrote
Since NASA is betting their entire crewed lunar landing missions on it, I'm quite confident Starship will launch next year or at least in 2024.
It's not like SpaceX only has one single rocket. The first of their two Starship factories is almost up and running.
bulboustadpole t1_j26i7kk wrote
>I'm quite confident Starship will launch next year or at least in 2024.
And I'm confident we'll be on mars come 2025
And I'm confident Tesla's will be used as robotaxis in 2020.
And I'm confident the CyberTruck will roll off the line in 2021.
And I'm confident that hyperloop is the future and not a scam shell corporation
I'm confident about a lot of things.
NotShey t1_j27rdsp wrote
The main thing holding it up currently are environmental concerns around the launch site. Red tape essentially. The rocket has already done low altitude flights and static fires. It appears to work. It's quite a bit further along than SLS was a year before it's first mission. I'm well familiar with the concept of 'Elon time' but Starship flying next year is well within the realm of plausible, as long as they can iron out the launch site issues.
Reddit-runner t1_j280ql8 wrote
If you have any doubts about Starship you really should call NASA an give them a warning! They are betting two crewed lunar landing missions on Starship.
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>And I'm confident that hyperloop is the future and not a scam shell corporation
You are confident about many things, but you seem to forget that Musk has nothing to do with Hyperloop beyond the one white paper he presented years ago and a small public competition. He never invested in any Hyperloop company or even touched the topic ever again.
You really don't have to like Musk. But don't lie to yourself and others about facts.
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