Comment by Dylan16807

> If you calculate the lifespan and cost of a Starlink satellite you will come to the obvious conclusion: it will be very hard for Starlink to break even.

We don't have up to date revenue numbers but let's look at spending $5B a year on sattelite launches. That's probably around half their current revenue, and they're gaining customers quickly. They're doing about 100 launches a year, and each launch is about 30 $1M satellites and $15M of rocket. That fits into the budget.

And for just maintaining the constellation they could cut the number of launches in half.