> My opinion is that if a company needs government help to thwart competition, then competition is absolutely needed. This is not as simple as that. The curren

> My opinion is that if a company needs government help to thwart competition, then competition is absolutely needed. This is not as simple as that. The current waiver on environmental studies for satellite launches was put in place in an era (the 80s) where individual satellites were not considered a threat. Now we're launching 'constellations'. It does really smell like some Oracle-level lawsuit driven anti-competitive behavior from viasat. However, as always, the truth is somewhere down the middle.