{"id":171910,"date":"2023-09-13T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/spacex-no-longer-taking-losses-to-produce-starlink-satellite-antennas-a-key-step-to-improving-profitability"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:24:40","slug":"spacex-no-longer-taking-losses-to-produce-starlink-satellite-antennas-a-key-step-to-improving-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/spacex-no-longer-taking-losses-to-produce-starlink-satellite-antennas-a-key-step-to-improving-profitability","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas, a key step to improving profitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-no-longer-taking-losses-to-produce-starlink-satellite-antennas-a-key-step-to-improving-profitability2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PARIS \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> SpaceX is no longer absorbing the cost of the Starlink antennas that it sells with its satellite internet service, a company executive said on Wednesday, a key step to the company improving its profitability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were subsidizing terminals but we\u2019ve been iterating on our terminal production so much that we\u2019re no longer subsidizing terminals, which is a good place to be,\u201d Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX vice president of Starlink and commercial sales, said during a panel at the World Satellite Business Week conference.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX sells consumer Starlink antennas, also known as user terminals, for $599 each. For more demanding Starlink customers \u2013 such as mobile, maritime, or aviation users \u2013 SpaceX sells antennas with its service in a range from $2,500 to $150,000 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS \u2013 Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX is no longer absorbing the cost of the Starlink antennas that it sells with its satellite internet service, a company executive said on Wednesday, a key step to the company improving its profitability. \u201cWe were subsidizing terminals but we\u2019ve been iterating on our terminal production so much that we\u2019re no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}