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Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Because they launch these alongside paying customer payloads.

Starlink is FAR from the only thing they launch. A customer pays for a payload, and any volume or mass left over in the launch is filled with small starkink sats.

They have basically $0 on launch costs because of this. They just toss them in when they have someone else paying for the rocket.

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