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Analyst on Starlink’s rapid rise: “Nothing short of mind-blowing” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

who would have thought that any disruption to one of the most corrupt and stagnant industries would lead to success

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Tom Mueller did, apparently: https://twitter.com/lrocket/status/1789021514198905289

Some of us working on StarLink 6-8 years ago had spreadsheets with basic cost assumptions of launch, sats and ground terminals, as well as revenue projections. The general consensus was, wow, the ROI is really quick, lets build and launch as many of these as fast as we can