Comments by "Nicolae Crefelean" (@kneekoo) on "DW News" channel.

@amrishkrishnannair Elon wasn't rich either. :P The thing is Jeff paints himself as a visionary leader that revolutionizes the space industry but even smaller and younger companies have reached orbit and delivered payloads, while Blue Origin hasn't. And that doesn't stop Jeff from posing as a hot shot, maybe because the corporate people expect that, maybe because he actually believes so, or he wants to protect his image, but that doesn't change the fact that his space company lags badly behind others. So yeah, he's a sort of a joke for those who worked hard and achieved stuff.
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That's how development gets funded - constant flow of money. That's why SpaceX is years ahead of everyone else in the space industry.
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Sure, but they will still invest everything in R&D for the foreseeable future because they want to use Starship for as many missions as possible, and bring the Starlink dish cost down to $300 or even $250 (for the customer), so "for now" probably translates to at least 2-3 more years.
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