SpaceX just launched satellites for a direct Starlink competitor and this is what fair competition looks like Falcon 9 successfully carried three AST SpaceMobile BlueBird satellites to orbit, deployed all three and landed the booster safely on its 30th flight AST SpaceMobile is building a direct-to-phone satellite network that will compete with Starlink Mobile SpaceX could have treated AST purely as a threat and refused to help a direct competitor reach orbit Instead, SpaceX gave its competitor access to one of the world’s most reliable and cost-effective launch systems and completed the mission successfully That tells you something important about SpaceX: It values real competition - Win by building the better product - Win through engineering, scale and execution - Do not win by preventing competitors from reaching the market