Starship's New Economics: How Mass and Volume Redefine the Satellite Industry

Starship's New Economics: How Mass and Volume Redefine the Satellite Industry

For more than six decades, the story of space has been defined by a single, unyielding constraint: launch. The sheer difficulty and expense of escaping Earth's gravity has dictated every decision, shaped every design, and limited every ambition. Satellites, the workhorses of the modern orbital economy, have been built under this tyranny. They are marvels of miniaturization and optimization, designed to be as light and compact as possible, folded…