The planned lifetime of Starlink satellites is more like 5 years. The 30k constellation will be launched by Starship. Starship's cost per launch is planned to b

The planned lifetime of Starlink satellites is more like 5 years. The 30k constellation will be launched by Starship. Starship's cost per launch is planned to be significantly less than Falcon 9 (due to complete and rapid reusability) with 10x the payload. With so much extra mass the satellites can likely be cheaper. That $250k number is totally made up, and I'm sure the actual cost has dropped or will drop dramatically as they really ramp up high volume mass production of the next generation, which has never been done on anything approaching this scale for satellites before.