> The cathedral must be finished before we can launch the first customer payload.
And it just did[1]. Putting the bandwidth equivalent of 1% of entire internet into orbit - representing nearly $500M annual revenue.
> SpaceX doesn't want to cannibalize their cash cow Falcon 9
That must be why they are no longer taking reservations[2] on the Falcon 9 - not even from the govt. Killing their best product, when competition is years away from matching it, and building the an even better product is indeed old company thinking.
And it just did[1]. Putting the bandwidth equivalent of 1% of entire internet into orbit - representing nearly $500M annual revenue.
> SpaceX doesn't want to cannibalize their cash cow Falcon 9
That must be why they are no longer taking reservations[2] on the Falcon 9 - not even from the govt. Killing their best product, when competition is years away from matching it, and building the an even better product is indeed old company thinking.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_flight_14
[2]: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/analysts-find-looming-...