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How Soon Does Starship Get Cheap Enough for Orbital Compute?

April 01, 2026

Last week we published a bottom-up cost comparison of orbital versus terrestrial compute infrastructure. The model showed that a 1 GW orbital compute constellation could be deployed for $46B/GW under base case assumptions, falling to $24B/GW over ...

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A World With 10,000 Starships

January 07, 2026

Executive Summary• Elon Musk’s claim of manufacturing up to ~10,000 Starships per year is not about cadence, it is about cost regime. Whether or not this scale is achieved, the number signals how SpaceX is thinking about the terminal economics of ...