I think that the hope is they’ll be able to increase the launch cadence once they’re managing to take off without doing significant damage to their pad and surroundings.
And once it’s proven enough to take off from Florida or Vandenbudg they’ll be able to launch more freely. At the moment they’re moving too fast to risk the other launch infrastructure present there.
This is a really hot take, but I reckon if it manages to make if to stage separation in one piece, and the hot staging works, the ship should fly trouble-free.
It’s the one part of the system that they have done significant testing on, not that many engines etc. If they once again don’t make it past staging that would be very concerning for the Starship timeline, Artemis, and so on…
It’ll be so cool to see the booster soft splash.
Biggest hope is that they manage to get away without sandblasting Boca Chica so the FAA don’t ground them for 6 months again.
It would make sense for SpaceX to offer lower prices for Africa for example.
They already cover the area, and it will be close to free to provide Internet there - they don’t need any extra fuel for station-keeping, power comes from the sun anyway, they’re not using bandwidth they could otherwise sell to richer customers. Maybe ground station use will cost a bit.
If it’s even mildly affordable, communities will come together to buy a terminal they can share. If you don’t have terrestrial connections, Starlink will be far more economical than conventional satellite Internet.
Plus they can sell internet to companies doing mineral exploration. That should bring boatloads of money.
I’m already seeing people whose jobs takes them out and about a lot starting to use Starlink as an integral part of their job.