Hawaiian Airlines is already on Starlink; most other US carriers are Viasat based at this point, which still doesn't have coverage over the Pacific (due to the deployment failure of Viasat-3 F1) and are probably getting annoyed at this point. (Word is that Viasat is trying to salvage 10% of the capacity of 3F1 [1] and ultimately move it elsewhere.)
I bet nobody will be really unhappy about the significantly lower latency either...
The only thing that the incumbents seem to have going for them at this point is being available as an Airbus line fit as part of HBCplus – once Starlink is an option there, things are going to get interesting.
This is easily shown as false. Musk was the majority founder and multiple news accounts say Musk still controls 78% of voting shares and there's no evidence the federal government owns any part of SpaceX. https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-MOD-20181108-00083/1569858.pdf
Even as late as 2012, Musk owned 2/3rds of SpaceX. This is after Falcon 9 was a successful product and they were starting to get NASA launches. He currently owns 54%.
SpaceX was founded with his own money from the Paypal sale, by December 2008 he was nearly bankrupt after multiple failed launches.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 32.2 ms ] threadHawaiian Airlines is already on Starlink; most other US carriers are Viasat based at this point, which still doesn't have coverage over the Pacific (due to the deployment failure of Viasat-3 F1) and are probably getting annoyed at this point. (Word is that Viasat is trying to salvage 10% of the capacity of 3F1 [1] and ultimately move it elsewhere.)
I bet nobody will be really unhappy about the significantly lower latency either...
The only thing that the incumbents seem to have going for them at this point is being available as an Airbus line fit as part of HBCplus – once Starlink is an option there, things are going to get interesting.
[1] https://spacenews.com/viasat-preparing-to-start-services-fro...
Even when it was founded, Musk was a minority equity investor.
Even as late as 2012, Musk owned 2/3rds of SpaceX. This is after Falcon 9 was a successful product and they were starting to get NASA launches. He currently owns 54%.
SpaceX was founded with his own money from the Paypal sale, by December 2008 he was nearly bankrupt after multiple failed launches.
Please provide evidence for you assertions.
Clearly shows the majority of money invested does not come from Musk.
Also, voting control is not the same as capital invested, not is there a 1:1 between the two.
The website you shared is most confusing. Please use some other website, its UI is frankly terrible.