Analyst: Starship Could Drive Satellite Bandwidth Costs Down Even More

SpaceX's Starship rocket and its large capacity could drive down already-plummeting satellite bandwidth costs even more, ARK Investment analyst Sam Korus wrote Monday. The cost of satellite bandwidth has dropped 7,500-fold since 2004, from $300 million per Gbps to $40,000 per Gbps, and Starship could prompt another 40-fold decline, to roughly $1,000/Gbps by 2028, he said. "Clearly, competitors are finding it difficult to match SpaceX’s cost declines," he said.