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E. Bottlaender @bottlaeric.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

I highly recommand this article (funny I disagree with P. Lionnet on some other subjects but here the demonstration is clear) spacenews.com/spacex-and-t...

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SpaceX and the categorical imperative to achieve low launch cost

The underlying math of SpaceX's business model suggests the company is selling Falcon launches at a major markup compared to launch cost.

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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 02/07/2026

Thanks. He appears to assume (his word) the launch costs by backing out from the claim that Starlink was "breakeven cash flow," and assuming that launch costs were included in the "cash flow" claim. To his later point, we also now know that SpaceX is drowning in debt. Is this the best evidence?

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E. Bottlaender @bottlaeric.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

Since the IPO documents we also know how much SpaceX is drawning in debts and why : cash goes to Starship and first and foremost to xAI.

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E. Bottlaender @bottlaeric.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

Well, this has been confirmed since by the public documents SpaceX has shared for its IPO : Starlink is a (very) profitable business at the moment, and yes that includes internal launch costs since it's an integrated company (opposed to Amazon leo for example which pays "public prices" for launches)

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