Pretty incredible market share gain, despite 180 contenders raising many billions of investment!
Why? None of the others are cost competitive. SpaceX offers EDLP of $5K/kg and others like RL and Virgin Orbit are $35,000/kg and up. Starship will be around $100/kg.
As for volume, the first half of 2021 already exceeds 2020. 62% of the satellites launched in 1H 2021 are part of the Starlink broadband network.
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