> as has Blue origin in the US Blue Origin is losing many billions every year and has only survived thanks to a hobby project. And even if they continue, to ge

> as has Blue origin in the US Blue Origin is losing many billions every year and has only survived thanks to a hobby project. And even if they continue, to get to SpaceX like cadence is a long way away, and many more billions in investment. Europe is a decade plus behind and has no way ever to get to the launch cadence. And even then they have 0 chance competing for international launch. And a true Starlink competitor out of Europe is fantasy. > Also the EU has setup a working Starlink competitor No it doesn't. > .. not that Starlink hasn't been tried 10 times before, with the most spectacular crash being Iridium If you really think Starlink and Iridium are comparable, you should get your head checked. And just because something hasn't worked before, doesn't mean changing technology doesn't change that. The question you should ask is "Are there historical example where a 10x drop in cost allowed for a new much larger volume in an industry". And if you look at it that way, its patently obvious. SpaceX doesn't even need to pay itself margin, if SpaceX had to fully buy SpaceX launches, the economics would be a lot worse. > TLDR: SpaceX is bankrupt, Starlink is a pets.com This is analysis where my only conclusion is that you just hate Musk and SpaceX for political reasons. Did pets.com make like 10 billion in revenue and had many major militaries as costumers? I must have missed that. > so it has no choice developing a publicly funded rocket program. It does have a choice the US doesn't need to publicly fund anything. They already have ULA, SpaceX, BlueOrigin, Rocket Lab, Stoke space, Relativity. > Everyone always makes the point that SpaceX is cheaper than SLS. However ... this fails to correctly compare prices for the only options the US government has: You act as if SLS is the law of the universe, but it isn't. Anybody with a brain has known for 10+ years that eventually the US will switch to commercial rocket launch. As NASA has already mostly done, and DoD has done 100% already. SLS is the last vestige of a dying system of cronies from the Shuttle days. It has not future. Only a long political fight to suck up as many resources at can be extract from congress before it inevitably dies. The future in the US is clear, competitive launch with SpaceX as the leading provider and ULA, Blue and friends competing for contracts.