SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.
SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.
Although in the case of Starlink, one company is already putting enough space junk in LEO to affect astronomy research and photography. I can’t imagine if there were more than one competitor.
That’s an argument for sharing infrastructure, though.
Capitalism is wildly wasteful.