Falcon 9 Starlink launch April 2020
SpaceX has carried out 10 Falcon 9 launches so far this year, but seven of them have been of its own Starlink satellites, generating almost no revenue for the company.

The first half of 2020 has been sluggish for the commercial launch industry, but its problems can’t be explained solely by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...