Zetta

I do not like Elon musk

I won't debate more on the finances because, like you said, they're a private company and we can't know for sure. However, reliable public estimates show starlink is profitable already or will be very soon.

Falcon Heavy is supposed to be cheaper per ton, yet somehow is almost never used for Starlink or anything else

Starlink already about maxes out the fairing capacity of the Falcon Rockets, so allowing more weight doesn't do much besides increase cost. Same with other companies buying launch services from SpaceX. Usually they don't need the extra capacity or margins heavy offers, although I wish me got more launches, they are always a treat to watch.

Starship isn't even projected to be cheaper than Falcon 9

Maybe not, but that wasn't my main point. They are already spending money on Starship and that isn't going to change. It's just soon they will actually be able to use that money they're spending to make more money by launching more starlinks. With the significantly larger payload capacity, they will also be able to launch way sats per launch and also more capable sats with higher bandwidth or more onboard propellants for a longer operational life

I expect Starship will be used to launch many batches of Starlink while the vehicle is still in testing and expected to fail on occasion, If you think about it in that capacity, the launches are free since they are already going to be doing test launches.

Starlink is bankrolling starlink, it's expected to generate 12 billion In revenue this year with 2 billion of that being profit

Before it paid for itself spacex did and still does have a lot of very wealthy private investors willing to throw significant funds at the company

You are 100% correct except for

though it seems to be failing at that goal.

Starlink is expected to bring in 2 billion In profit this year, it is successful https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/starlink-profit-growing-rapidly-as-it-faces-a-moment-of-promise-and-peril/

Wow, they lost a lot more sensitive data than I was expecting.

With government IDs being in the leak this feels like what's gonna happen in the next couple years with porn sites needing government IDs. I bet peoples watching habits will get leaked right along side IDs.

Starlink is already making more money than it costs to expand and operate, you are wrong. This is sustainable (financially) and counter to your beliefs over the next 10 years I'd wager the starlink network will balloon to many times its current size, 20,000 plus satellites in orbit.

SpaceX is the most successful company/entity in history that does space launch, it doesn't cost them a whole lot of money to launch new batches of Satellites and that cost will continue to decrease as the Falcon 9 program continues to improve and as starship becomes operational over the next few years.

Us lucky fiber users, I can get 8gig symmetrical for $300 and 2 gig for $75 a month. Still nothing like other non American countries but damn do I have it good for living here.

You don't know what you're talking about, the satellites do "reasonably" boost themselves, they have propulsion on board.

After 5 years yes they trash them, but that nots not cost prohibitive for SpaceX. Starlink is brining in a significant amount of money, and it doesn't cost SpaceX all that much to launch a new batch to replace the old. You all seem to forget they are the cheapest and most impressive launch company to date.

What you and nobody else seems to understand is that every year SpaceX is launching more and more rockets and they will only continue to increase their launch cadence. In the next one or two years, they will start using Starship for Starlink launches, and that will significantly increase the amount of bandwidth they can add to the network per lanch.

I'm sure I'll get hate because I'm defending an elon company but everyone here is plain wrong and just making shit up.

It is a viable business product, latest estimates are Starlink will bring in a revenue of 12 billion in 2025 with about 2 billion being profit. Of course it's not a public company so we don't get official numbers, but you're flat out wrong.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/starlink-profit-growing-rapidly-as-it-faces-a-moment-of-promise-and-peril/

Starlink is owned by spaceX so they've never purchased a rocket, they just launch

And because of starlink SpaceX will be an insanely profitable company. Starlink is already bankrolling the very expensive starship development.

I'm also in the bathroom, but the TP is on my right and to the left is the shower. No objects that aren't attached to the building. So, that'll be hard.

Yes true, I understand and agree with that logic