And another important point. Now the Mask has to compete with the old (time tested) rockets of space agencies.
For comparison. Falcon-9 Mask has flown so far 71 times.
Disposable missiles its competitors made a much larger number of flights: Atlas-5 79 flight, Ariane-5 103 flight, Proton 418 flight, Soyuz 1899 flight, DF-5 304 fligth. More flights - on average, more than a percentage of reliability.
But almost all of these rockets will retire soon. Some will be replaced by new missiles due to lower prices (Atlas-5->Vulcan, Ariane-5->Ariane-6), others because of the transition to environmentally friendly fuel (Proton->Angara, DF-5->CZ-5-9). New one-time missiles will not have large statistics of reliability, like the old ones. And all these rockets are still disposable. In this regard, their customers will go to E. Mask.
The only one-time rocket with large statistics, which will remain in the future is the Soyuz. This is the oldest space rocket with a record number of launches and flying on environmentally friendly fuel. Moreover, due to low wages in Russia, its cost is relatively small. But this missile will be bad able to compete with the Falcon. Firstly, this one-time missile, secondly, Russia is still wary of it, third, the missile carrying capacity is small (almost 3 times less than Falcon).
A similar situation will be in the field of communications. Starink’s 10,000th group of satellites will press all competitors (geostationary satellites and submarine cables).
In this regard, it is obvious that in immediate 5 years corporation SpaсeХ will become the leading monopolist in the space industry and communication. Above all, the place Microsoft occupies in area the operating system (more than 90 percent of the world market). An absolute majority of rockets, rocket engines and spacecraft will be produced at SpaceХ Corporation.
Such a concentration of high technology and finance in the hands of one corporation will allow concentrating efforts on the rapid progress in the creation of space colonies. It will resemble the Drax Empire in the Moon racer.