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Re:Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth ast... by viczsaszbo on Saturday January 22, 2022 @04:05AM (#30035002)
Right now nobody claims it's making money. Musk himself said gen 1 is "financially weak". They have 600k+ preorders and geo satellite people are very happy with it, which is a couple million users mostly in the US just from that. With 400 satellites per launch using Starship, Starlink looks much better financially. They plan on starting to launch Starship with Starlink this year. This reasonable analysis says about 3mil subscribers are needed without factoring in Starship.

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Re:Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth ast... by shaklee3 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @09:24AM (#30036846)
starship is nowhere near ready to launch, and their Boca chica facility is now halted due to epa regulations
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Re:Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth ast... by viczsaszbo on Saturday January 22, 2022 @05:54PM (#30041634)
Actually, it is. It's expected to launch around Q2 2022. The NEPA FAA PEA is going to be decided upon on February 28th then if they get the greenlight a launch attempt will happen a couple months after that. For commercial launches, they are targeting 2023. Even if Starship gets delayed to 2023-24 it will still play a big roll in getting Starlink satellites up since they haven't started launching the gen 2 constellation yet.
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