True! The way microcomputers supplanted mainframes. If you launch cheaper satellites more often: - you get to iterate so you can make improvements at a much fa

True! The way microcomputers supplanted mainframes. If you launch cheaper satellites more often: - you get to iterate so you can make improvements at a much faster pace - there is less problems from a single failure - more scale effects You can enter a virtuous cycle. There are limits! It can be that it's hard to make a useful satellite once you go below some certain size. And reliability suffers if you try to skimp on good practices. On many scientific satellites, the instruments are one off anyway and are complex, hard and hand built with astronomical costs, so it might not save so much even if the launch and the bus were a lot cheaper.