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True, but if you lower the price enough, previously unfeasible ideas such as this one will start appearing. Kind of like the massive improvements in retro emulation when FPGAs started getting cheaper.

>>glimsh+(OP)
It takes ~10 years to go from idea to launch for conventional satellites. Something even more novel will take even longer. SpaceX isn't going to lower launch prices today in the hope that it'll pay off in a couple decades.

I'm fairly confident that for the next decade that if you want to launch ~10 tons into orbit, it'll cost you $70M whether you launch on Falcon9 or Starship or Neutron or New Glenn. If you want to launch 100 tons, it'll cost you more even though it's the same Starship, just because nobody else can do that.

If you want to launch 1000 rockets you will be able to call up SpaceX and negotiate a much better price, but only if you have good negotiating power -- if you can convince them you won't launch at all if you don't get a good price.