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by gpm 2297 days ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. That SpaceX's launch business struggles to find enough customers, or that SpaceX's satellite business struggles to get enough launches to orbit?

Ironically both are sort of true... and I'm not sure how either of them respond to the post you replied to.

SpaceX has been struggling to get enough external customers recently, the launch market has been in a bit of a slump and external customers haven't yet substantially responded to the lowering launch costs.

SpaceX's Starlink constellation needs a huge number of launches, to the point where it seems at best barely feasible in both cost and launch volume to launch it on current rockets. They hope to fix this with their in-development starship rocket which should be able to launch an order of magnitude more satellites at a time (400 vs 60), at an order of magnitude less cost as a result of full re-usability and easier construction of the rocket.