Starship's first orbit beats 20 Falcon 9 launches: inside SpaceX's five-business strategy
hey_abusiddik · x · 2026-11-07
A thread connects SpaceX's five simultaneous businesses into one strategy: Starship reached orbit on Sept 28 and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites (1 Tbps each), adding more bandwidth than 20 Falcon 9 launches combined; on Nov 13 SpaceX will attempt to catch both booster and upper stage with mechanical arms; and it is in talks to buy Boost Mobile (7.5M customers) after Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile refused network access — pointing to vertical integration of rockets, satellites, terminals and a carrier.
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