> The pace of innovation at SpaceX is not THE reason - it’s an additional reason that no one has a snowballs chance in hell of ever catching Starlink.

Don't forget over $15bln of tax money they got for doing barely anything so far.

Barely nothing? Are you out of your mind?

pLEO, Starshield, SDA, NSSL, Commercial Crew, Commercial Cargo?????

Only HLS is in view. And it's less than 5 billion.

Everything listed above is delivered and has more expensive alternatives.

I think it's important to recognize the irony in how much SpaceX and Tesla benefit from government programs and funds that he now wants to turn off as part of DOGE, but you can't say SpaceX has barely done anything.