Great napkin math. I'd like to also add that Starlink is a project that plays along really well with their main development: Starship. Starship will bring Starl

Great napkin math. I'd like to also add that Starlink is a project that plays along really well with their main development: Starship. Starship will bring Starlink costs down, but that's not the real benefit: what they really needed was a product to increase Starship launches in the short term. They need something to prove it's reliability. Starship won't have a separate abort system, and yet Spacex wants to fly people on it. Not only do they want it human rated (NASA spec for this is >1:275 launch failure, which is still quite high), they _also_ want routine intercontinental civilian flights. New york to Singapur in 40mins. But again, to do this they need to prove they're as reliable as an airplane, and to do that they need volume. Traditional satellite market has proven very slow to move and take advantage of cheaper prices, so Spacex does the next best thing: create its own volume.