I'd wager mainly because there is no competition, and there is no motivation for SpaceX to charge less.
The cost for regular launches has gone down a lot.
But, to be fair, it has not gone down nearly as far as it could. SpaceX still has big margins there. I assume because again there is too little competition, and because going from 60 to 25 Million doesn't increase the potential market by all that much, so no huge motivation to drop prices.
Starship might allow them to go so much lower that entirely new markets can emerge, but I'm skeptical.
It's a bit of a different story for rideshare missions, those do make it way, way cheaper to launch small satelites.
I'd wager mainly because there is no competition, and there is no motivation for SpaceX to charge less.
The cost for regular launches has gone down a lot. But, to be fair, it has not gone down nearly as far as it could. SpaceX still has big margins there. I assume because again there is too little competition, and because going from 60 to 25 Million doesn't increase the potential market by all that much, so no huge motivation to drop prices.
Starship might allow them to go so much lower that entirely new markets can emerge, but I'm skeptical.
It's a bit of a different story for rideshare missions, those do make it way, way cheaper to launch small satelites.