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As far as I understood, I always thought that they just used other people’s rockets to piggyback their own satellites to space basically for free
Haven’t heard that though you need a lot of other launches with space available….
Unless you want to separate starlink from spacex it’s kinda the other way around.
I think spacex was adding starlink deployment to all their rockets and their “plan” was to launch other satellites and nasa projects, then get the starlink stuff up there for less.
That "for free" part is probably paid for by someone (invertors, rocket company, ...)