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Does anybody expect Kuiper to be economically viable? - they are at least five years behind Starlink in launches - they use ULA (or Blue Origin) to launch, I
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
Does anybody expect Kuiper to be economically viable?
- they are at least five years behind Starlink in launches
- they use ULA (or Blue Origin) to launch, I don't even follow Blue Origin anymore, are they even cheaper than ULA if they can launch? Isn't ULA 2-3x as expensive as current SpaceX launches
- SpaceX seems well along the path of figuring out most of the ground terminal hardware
- Starship is coming, that's AT LEAST 1/3 of the cost of current SpaceX in all likelihood?
I saw some comments that Kuiper will have "better" satellites, but that's all on paper, and SpaceX is ALREADY in the iteration phase, once there's billions of revenue, there's no advantage Kuiper will hold.
The only competition I can see involves nation states trying to keep a satellite infrastructure to maintain nation-state (or in the EU case federation-state) competitiveness, and Kuiper is just another US company.
So are their objections just trying to slow down SpaceX?
ViaSat... do they have any legit beef aside from trolling/annoying SpaceX in pettiness over making them obsolete?
I get Bezos really likes his cowboy hat astronaut cosplay, and has Smaug's horde, but ... come on. I wish him the best and it's his money, and competition ois good