Won't there be a lot of constellations up there, possibly soon-ish? I can't imagine SpaceX will remain the only ones who can do this for very long. They are ver

Won't there be a lot of constellations up there, possibly soon-ish? I can't imagine SpaceX will remain the only ones who can do this for very long. They are very innovative, but once they figure out how to make those cheap launches a boring process, I guess espionage will take care of transferring that knowledge elsewhere. When it becomes clear what such a constellation can do, no doubt it will become a strategic asset – no way the Chinese will be content to just buy access from a US company. Militaries will be very interested – put cheap-ish sensing capabilities on those birds, or decent ones on some, and you get a pretty decent global surveillance network on top of very useful infrastructure and low-latency, possibly even quite covert global communication infra that can't be taken out with existing tech. And maybe some of those constellations will use higher orbits and care less about the night sky, and that's it for spotting the Milky Way without a computer processing out the bright flashes. That's not a happy thought.