A bold number about SpaceX (SPCX) is getting a lot of attention. Ark Invest's Sam Korus laid out the math on X: Each Starship launch carries about 61 terabits per second of connectivity at $19 million of revenue per Tbps. That works out to about $1 billion per launch. Looking at this, Cathie Wood said that if SpaceX hits Elon Musk’s target of 10,000 flights a year, that would mean $10 trillion in annual Starship revenue by 2030. Musk reposted the claim and simply added, “It’s not impossible.”
Those words should be interpreted carefully. Musk didn’t call it a plan or a forecast. The SpaceX CEO just said it wasn’t impossible, which is far less concrete — and the gap between the projection and where SpaceX stands today is huge.
