Is the Commercial Space Industry Here to Stay? (spacedotbiz.substack.com)

6 points by user012021 4y ago ↗ HN

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I mean as long as SpaceX keeps doing what its doing, I think space is going to be alright.

I don't know, I think we may be too focused on SpaceX/Astra when looking at trends. Are any of the incumbents or traditional aerospace companies acting similarly?

bell-cot 4y ago ↗

Outside of Starlink, and late-start wanna-be competitors to Starlink, how does the total market demand for launch services compare to the supply which all these eager new wanna-be launch companies plan to build? Given that there are a number of national space programs - which may be able to tolerate large financial losses "forever", for political reasons...