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I think they have the opportunity, whether they take it or not is up to them. I don't worry about SpaceX dominating all aspects of space development, because t
by simonh 5y ago
I think they have the opportunity, whether they take it or not is up to them.
I don't worry about SpaceX dominating all aspects of space development, because their launch capacity will far, far exceed the volume of products they can reasonably develop to fill it. We're talking about the ability to deliver thousands of tons of payload to orbit per month. It's going to take many companies, many product ideas, many business models and industrial sectors to fill that capacity.
It's a bit like how in the early days of the iPhone Steve Jobs imagined that Apple would develop all the apps for the phone, sometimes along with business partners, as they did with the early versions of Google Maps. His colleagues realised that the platform had the capacity to run a vast ecosystem of apps across many use cases and business models they couldn't even think of yet. The only way to realise it's potential was to carry other people's stuff, in that case apps, in SpaceX case cargo.