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How has Starlink has gone from zero to profitability in five years?

The time to jump into a red-hot growth prospect is usually right now...before any more investors identify the opportunity.

The time to jump into a red-hot growth prospect is usually right now...before any more investors identify the opportunity.

Elon Musk: When pressed further about Musk’s comments at a Washington conference last month, SpaceX Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnsen said, “I don’t know that I want to quantify those numbers, but we are in positive cash flow and profitable territory for our satellite business now.”

Musk's undisclosed Starlink costs undercut profitability claims

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Starlink, which provides space-based internet service to more than 2.6 million customers, often strips out the hefty cost of sending its satellites into space to make the non-public numbers look better to investors, these people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. They describe the companys accounting as “more of an art than a science” and say its not actually profitable based on an operational and ongoing basis.

Recent high-profile layoffs are only a short-term setback for a space industry on track for more unprecedented growth in workforce and revenues, according to panelists joining the Space Foundation’s quarterly investment discussion April 8.

Space Force chief: U.S. intelligence is top-notch, but more insights needed on space domain

The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.