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by andrewcamel 1423 days ago
What’s the lag time between launch orders and actual launches? Wonder if we’re looking at a 9-12 month trailing indicator of health and the broader tech reset is dampening orders in the last 2-3 months.
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Years. For example, SES-22 just launched and it was ordered two years ago in August 2020.
The majority of SpaceX's launches are for themselves. No customers could support the scale that they wanted and needed, so they made their own customer in Starlink.