SpaceX's Starlink is unlikely to win 'anything' from a $16 billion pool of federal funding. But losing could ultimately benefit the ambitious satellite-internet project.

· SpaceX has launched hundreds of internet-beaming Starlink satellites and recently started a private beta for the network.
· But the aerospace company, founded by Elon Musk, might try to defray some of its cost through Federal Communications Commission subsidies worth $20.4 billion.
· Starlink performance tests published on...