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Isn’t that retail cost of launch? Since they own the spaceships it should be 1/2 or less of the retail price.
by brianwawok 5y ago
Isn’t that retail cost of launch? Since they own the spaceships it should be 1/2 or less of the retail price.
- soheil 5y agoThat's the money they would have made and since I assume they don't any marketing that'd be the total realized cost.
- ncallaway 5y agoThat would work if they had sold all of their capacity, but I think there's plenty of unfilled Falcon 9 capacity. I don't think every Starlink launch could be replaced by a paying customer.
- brianwawok 5y agoI don't think any would, it's all spare capacity.
- mannerheim 5y agoThere might be the opportunity cost of a doing a retail launch instead, but I would guess for the Starlink launches, if they weren't launching them they wouldn't be launching anything at all, so you're probably right.