> The price is a bit insane... but it's also like, wonder of the world level of engineering So is the price of a bespoke suit. It's not like you can go down t

> The price is a bit insane... but it's also like, wonder of the world level of engineering So is the price of a bespoke suit. It's not like you can go down to Sal's Satellite Symposium and pick one of these things off the rack like Levi 501 jeans (or picking up a Toyota RAV4). Most of these types of things are more handmade than even (e.g.) Ferraris, which at least have a production run of a few hundred or thousand cars for any given model. The closest things for 'production run' of satellites would be GPS, which are ordered in batches: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_satellite_blocks#Block_III_satellites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_satellite_blocks#Block_III...