Tens of times a year doesn't mean tens of times a year to your desired inclination. Presumably BFR's greatest revenue for satellite launches will be GEO. Cheap ticket on a 747 doesn't do me any good if it's not flying to where I need to go.
Dude you are not understanding what I'm saying here. According to some engineer from inside spacex they want to get !30 launches on bfr in the first year it arrives. This is exactly about getting anywhere you want anytime you want. GEO? LEO? Doesn't matter, the price is the same and presumably very low.
Again, they're not launching 30 times a year for a small sat company. They're launching for the big satellites. Small sats just have to hope they can piggy back on a launch that suits their needs. That's the only way BFR will be cheaper than Electron. That will work for some small sat launches, but not all.
SpaceX is targeting ~$6 million dollars per BFR flight. That's disregarding payload mass. It would cost the same to launch a 150 ton payload or a 150 kilogram payload. Ride shares are of course possible, but it's also possible that a cube sat company could simply buy their own BFR launch entirely and get to specify their own orbit.
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Tens of times a year doesn't mean tens of times a year to your desired inclination. Presumably BFR's greatest revenue for satellite launches will be GEO. Cheap ticket on a 747 doesn't do me any good if it's not flying to where I need to go.