It takes talent to repackage 1970s shuttle technology and take so long and blow through so much money making the Senate Launch System. Too bad it was wasted turning the SLS into a pork barrel boondoggle.

Government contracts are not themselves subsidies. Just like Canada not buying as much from the U.S. as the U.S. buys from Canada is not a subsidy no matter how loudly Trump and MAGA claim otherwise.

Do you understand that making the trains run takes money constantly? So does making them continue to run on time take money constantly. Sort of how just buying you a meal doesn't feed you for life (unless you immediately die of course) but you constantly need to buy food or things to use to grow food.

It doesn't look like ULA has any more Kuiper launches likely to happen this year. The same for Blue Origin. Not able to find out when Ariane 6 will carry any. Falcon 9 is scheduled to take a load in June then nothing till next year. Looks like the claims that Amazon is building them at a snails pace may be accurate. If they don't accelerate they will have 7 months to launch 1500 satellites (~60 launches unless Starship is usable and available to Amazon).

The lag would be FIERCE.

Also why they want Starship to be fully reusable and launch many more Starlink satellites at once with shorter turn around times between launches.

And in a dildo shaped rocket that REALLY vibrates.

Looks like the only "friendly" nations according to Trump are Russia and North Korea. Excellent friends Trumpie has.

Why do you assume he won't be sent straight to el Salvadore on arrival in the U.S.? Just having Scottish citizenship doesn't make him white. Also the Scottish people and Parliament have made it clear they don't want Trump to visit. So Trumpie has a "reason" to have a grudge.

At that rate he would never get them all up and active as they don't have 45 year life spans.

They could hire SpaceX to build them like they build their own Starlink satellites.

First SpaceX Kuiper launch scheduled for June 2025. An Amazon shareholder lawsuit over Bezos not seeking a SpaceX bid (and his conflict of interest in awarding to BO and ULA) resulted in a few launches being allocated to SpaceX. More probably will as I doubt the other 3 suppliers can handle the total # of launches required. None are used to high launch rates and all have other customers.

Especially when Bezos/Amazon has had numerous lawsuits and FCC complaints against Starlink to try and keep them from launching satellites. So Bezos has motivated Musk to retaliate and try to slow Kuiper. Not a smart series of moves Bozos.