https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200001093
Why do you lie?
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.
Probably to fuel the R&D cost
I think they still hope to achieve that in the future. It is just there are a lot of more critical milestones they need to hit first before they try to tackle that.
Due to massively inflating costs and a recent catastrophic failure, Boeing has a very uncertain future in the program.
I hope this helps!
Tesla sells EVs much cheaper in China than the US due to actual competition.
As much as I despise Elon Musk, the cost per kg to LEO has gone down a lot in recent years thanks to spacex.