This can only be a good thing. The Europeans tend to do things a bit more slowly but more rigorously.
European stocks are overall outperforming US ones this year. They're up about 10% since January, US ones have fallen by about 2%.
But do they have the capabilities to put satellites into orbit cost-effectively without supporting 'evil Elon'?
By virtue of not wasting time on drugs, mania and celebrity it looks like Eutelstat is poised to crush Starlink
Does anyone know how the terminals are built? Any chance the Starlink branded ones are actually generic enough to be used with a better firmware?
How different are these two systems?
Might be worth modifying the Starlink terminals so they work with Eutelsat infrastructure instead of becoming scrap.
The title is intellectually dishonest. Eutelsat is not in any way a rival to Starlink. They are not at all playing in the same league.
Starlink has over 7000 satellites. Eutelsat has several hundred they got from their purchase of OneWeb and isn't increasing them by much.
The reason why Eutelsat stock is increasing is because investors think that Europe is going to go nuts with "buy European" in the military space which would allow them to sell their services at inflated pricing as it's no longer a fair market between OneWeb and Starlink.
> Matching Starlink’s 40,000 would take “a couple of months, not years.”
Wow, that's faster than I would have expected. Good thing in this case!