Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Elon Musk says Starship will also launch 100+ times more per year than Falcon (mostly AI sats). This would be 16,000 launches per year. Probably ~20k comms satellites per year at ~2 tons/sat. High mass flux to orbit.
200 V4 Starship launches per year would put 20,000 communications satellites in orbit.
$500 billion per year to $2 trillion per year in broadband internet and direct to cellphone revenue.


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