The space industry’s growth model is beginning to strain under its own logic. Cheaper launches enable mass deployment of satellites; mass deployment then helps sustain the economics that make launches cheaper. The cycle looks efficient at the unit level and increasingly difficult to defend at the system level. The numbers force the question. By early May 2026, recent space-industry tracking put SpaceX’s Starlink fleet at more than 10,000 satelli…
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