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by new_realist 2545 days ago
Satellite costs, not launch costs, dominate. And then there is Vulcan and other cheap launch competitors coming online.
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> Satellite costs, not launch costs, dominate.

Starlink is promising well under a million per satellite, and OneWeb is reportedly already at a million. Satellite costs might end up lower than launch costs, and even if they're higher that doesn't seem like they'll dominate.

That may be true for heavy ones that are only ever built once but these are light and mass produced. I cannot find the source but I'm pretty sure elon musk said that the rocket costs more to build than all of the satellites on a launch.
Which are paper rockets until they actually launch, land, and refly successfully.