> It is so incredibly wasteful that the companies and governments keep coming up with unique designs for the satellites serving similar purposes. Common satell

> It is so incredibly wasteful that the companies and governments keep coming up with unique designs for the satellites serving similar purposes. Common satellite chassis has been a thing for decades. StarLink and other systems like it benefit from mass production and economies of scale. Each block of StarLink satellites is identical. They also have a singular task and everything about them is optimized for it. Most satellites are not identical copies of one another even if they have "similar" roles. Mass production is less desirable as you'd end up with unoptimized designs which means wasted mass or reduced capabilities.