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Comment by burnerRhodov3 | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]burnerRhodov3 · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:12 UTC · link
You are right, they will repeat what they did with falcon.. They created the demand. They created starlink because they created so much capacity, they needed to put it somewhere. Now they will create Starlink v3 to completely dominate the internet market worldwide. Ontop of starlink V3, they have Starlink V4 in the works which will include direct to cell capability along with building land based towers worldwide. Finally, they have Starmind, for orbital compute.

They don't need/ want to sell capacity. They want to constrain the capacity for themselves, which is obviously the better business move. Look at falcon 9 launches... It's not like they drastically lowered their pricing, they've been raising there pricing dramatically because they want to phase falcon 9 out.