Wow. A lot of questions about AST here, like "Starlink was already catching a lot of bad press for 'night glare' and you guys are launching something that is

Wow. A lot of questions about AST here, like "Starlink was already catching a lot of bad press for 'night glare' and you guys are launching something that is literally two decimal orders of magnitude worse?" "243 launches @$85M each is about $20.7 billion dollars in launch costs, that's a lot of money and I wouldn't expect SpaceX to give you a discount." "How many spares? What is your per-satellite cost? How much revenue per phone user do you need to get to even cover the cost of operating, much less the cost of operations and depreciation?" "What is the probability that your 600+ sq foot antenna will be pierced by micrometeoroids? How many until it's no long effective?" "What is your station keeping propellant load? How long does that last?" So many questions. I wish them success, yet it feels to me as if they have really chosen a very difficult path to get to where they want to get to. Success is hard already.