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So their business plan is to buy launches from SpaceX to build their own fleet. Then SpaceX has the booster paid for and can re-use it up to 4 times to launch their StarLink satellites for a fraction of the cost.

Seems like it would be simpler for them to just write a check to Musk...

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I didn't see anything in the article about them using SpaceX to launch. Perhaps I missed it.

Or pay more to the competition? Nobody is on par with SpaceX right now.

It's one of the photo captions.

>At top, Kepler launches eight GEN-1 satellites on a mission provided by SpaceX

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