Starship's bet and the business it protects

SpaceX is chasing sub-$100/kg — the wedge under a company reportedly valued around $350B.

The top 3

  1. Starship: the sub-$100/kg promise: Fully reusable and 100+ tonnes to low orbit — Musk targets under $100/kg, a figure still unproven in real service.
  2. New Glenn and the challengers: Blue Origin's reusable heavy-lifter and rivals are racing to break SpaceX's grip on cheap tonnage to orbit.
  3. Why cheap launch is really a Starlink play: Low $/kg feeds a Starlink network topping 5 million subscribers — the recurring revenue that underwrites the valuation.

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