Jaden Schaefer

I think they often are kind of assuming static launch and economics, which is basically the entire premise is hinging on Starship here, right?

If Starship is able to

you know, achieve its intended cost reductions per kilogram to orbit, then I think the business case is going to shift dramatically.

But right now, because it is so expensive, even for Starship to get things into orbit, this doesn't feel like a profitable business.

You know, he's like, you know, it's way cheaper because there's like no land permitting and, you know, we don't have to get water to cool these things and we have unlimited solar.

And so those things are true, but just getting these satellites into space is expensive.

But Starship has a plan to decrease costs

their payload costs.

So being able to get things into space for cheaper, they're planning on doing a lot of optimizations.

And if they are able to do those optimizations, perhaps this becomes a profitable business.

Today, the Falcon 9 already delivers basically the best

Yeah, absolutely.

part of basically saving a lot of their costs is how much of the rockets can be reused if they shoot something up, and they bring it back down.

You know, and that's kind of the thing that they saved a killer of money over NASA was just that the rockets now we're not exploding or crashing on reentry, they're actually able to reuse them.

So

How many times can they reuse them?

How many parts can be reused?

How much they need to be repaired?

If they can bring all those costs down and just have a vehicle that goes up and down to space over and over again, that's where they start saving a lot of money.

And they have a goal and a plan for that.