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Yeah but with the volume we're talking about here, SpaceX is definitely going to be extremely constrained by launch capacity. I doubt they'd be hit with any ant
by MertsA 8y ago
Yeah but with the volume we're talking about here, SpaceX is definitely going to be extremely constrained by launch capacity. I doubt they'd be hit with any antitrust lawsuit over not cancelling their own launches in order to take orders from their competitors. In any case, there's no chance that all of those companies are going to be able to launch their constellations in anywhere close to their targeted timeframes. There's just not enough launch capacity in the world to handle that in such a short amount of time.
- BurningFrog 8y agoMy impression of the Starlink project is that it's at least in part a backup project for unused launch capacity. That is, if they happen to not find paying customers for all their reusable launch fleet, this is a way for it to not stand around idle. Under this theory, paying customers will always get precedent over throwing up another 44 satellites.