Agree, I think the smart move for SpaceX is to stay ahead of it by offering/working out/subsidizing assembly line style space telescope production and launch w/

Agree, I think the smart move for SpaceX is to stay ahead of it by offering/working out/subsidizing assembly line style space telescope production and launch w/ benefits to impacted astronomy programs. I mean imagine if you just enabled a high quality ~cell phone camera in each direction on the existing starlink array etc. Or what if starlink specified a parasite satellite slot that they sold e.g. you can put up x mini sats embedded and facing space with network and power port. It lasts as long as the node lasts, put up a lot and don't complain.