"I was skeptical of Amazon early on too. But they had a couple of things going for them that SpaceX doesn't have: one was a huge potential market. People were already buying books, Amazon made it easy to do from your home, with next day delivery. The other was that Amazon had no competition in that space"

I mean these are both valid for SpaceX also, take out the execution and technological difficulty. There is a huge potential market in space, and they're is practically no competition

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general1465 13 hours ago | parent [-]

> There is a huge potential market in space

Is there? Most of their launches (like 90%+) are Starlink + there is high demand to not to use US technology because you may get banned when administration is not feeling the vibe today.

It is not like SpaceX can open space port in Europe or China to bypass US regulations. While Amazon pretty much can.

	▲	MSKJ 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The volatility of the administration is a real concern, and it's motives are upsetting at times. Looking at the market in space, mining could be very lucrative and as costs keep coming down there should be more launches. Lack of international competition here is actually working against them here