Spaceflight 🚀Jul 6, 2023
#Forbes 📆 Jun 23, 2023 "#Amazon says half of the 3,236 #satellites 🛰️ will be up above us by 📆 2026" - but who will #launch 🚀 them ? 🤔 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2023/06/23/project-kuiper-how-amazon-will-drape-the-world-in-satellites/

• #BlueOrigin / #NewGlenn : no news / tests yet
• #Ariane 6 is years late (again)
• #ULA's #Vulcan is late, dependent on #BE4 engines
All three will be operative until 2025
7.4%
Microlaunchers
2.9%
SpaceX
36.8%
They need a miracle
52.9%
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Project Kuiper: How Amazon Will Drape The World In Satellites

Amazon is moving into the low-earth orbit satellite business, and those satellites will be coming thick and fast. Here’s what the company has to say about the project.

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Jul 8, 2023

Number of #Starlink #satellites 🛰️ launched until 📆 July 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_and_Starshield_launches#Totals

Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starlink_satellites_in_orbit_since_May_2019_(target_%3D_1440).svg

List of Starlink and Starshield launches - Wikipedia

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I think the starlink biz is spacex 's 💰💰💰
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Jul 9, 2023 at 12:50amWeb
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Jul 9, 2023
@robbi in Feb 2022, Forbes estimated "that SpaceX will recoup that cost in two years at its current customer level" (AFAIK it's now > 1 Million) https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2022/02/14/starlink-hits-250000-customers-elon-musk-hints-spacex-booking-over-300-millionyear/
Starlink Hits 250,000 Customers, Elon Musk Hints: SpaceX Booking Over $300 Million/Year

If 250,000 people are currently using Starlink terminals, that would be a revenue run rate of $25 million a month for SpaceX, given the $100/month charge for high-speed internet on the Starlink service.

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