The big growth market right now is earth observation - companies like Planet Labs that rely on low launch prices to make their "cheap" camerasats worthwhile to

The big growth market right now is earth observation - companies like Planet Labs that rely on low launch prices to make their "cheap" camerasats worthwhile to launch. We'll see what markets come up next. In the short term, though, SpaceX has actually shrunk the market - there's a slowdown in the historically-dominant geostationary launch market, since there's a lead time of a few years on those big expensive satellites and all the manufacturers put plans on hold a couple of years back while they were waiting to see what would happen in the launch market. Hence it taking until December this year for SpaceX to reach its previous-year launch number - 10%-ish growth is actually very slow by SpaceX standards. (This is also a motivation for SpaceX to play with things like running its own comsat constellation - they'll have extra capacity for the next year or two while the GEO market restabilizes.)