> Being a passion project doesn't preclude making a profit. Especially if you're not being stupidly short sighted. OK. But the comment I responded to call it a

> Being a passion project doesn't preclude making a profit. Especially if you're not being stupidly short sighted. OK. But the comment I responded to call it a passion/prestige project and contracted it with a normal profit driven business. > This is also why even if Starship's cost targets pan out, they'll likely just charge slightly lower than competing options for the specific payload. Yeah. SpaceX hasn't said anything, but I tend to believe that they'll move to a capabilities based pricing model where customers pay by the KG and/or m^3. That way they can compete for small payloads while getting paid appropriately for large ones.