Re:SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation construction begins
by penagwin on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:11PM
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They get to launch* their own stuff for only the rocket cost, that part is fine.
I mean if they have Boeing, NASA, etc. as paying customers at a standard $X they can't just go "Well Google you're launching a competitor to us so we're gonna charge you 20 * $X instead to prevent you from launching".
The government grants monopolies (patent) on very important things (drugs and treatments for all sorts of things) and then lets companies charge different rates to different customers - even higher prices to the uninsured. It seems unlikely they'd make SpaceX launch for a competitor at anywhere near their own cost. But then politics....