SpaceX plans a $100B spaceport built for thousands of launches a year
THE SO WHAT
A single facility designed for thousands of Starship launches annually is a volume signal—SpaceX is planning for an economy where orbital logistics look more like container shipping than aerospace. If your roadmap assumes launch scarcity or high per-kg costs, you may be mispricing both risk and opportunity over the next decade.
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