[nickysielicki]

I know this might sound a bit cheap but I think there are national security concerns that are worth mentioning. You simply can’t rely on satellites for domestic backhaul unless you’re prepared for it to go away as soon as a war starts.

If a simpleton like me is capable of taking a Yagi into my backyard and talking on AMSAT birds with a 5 watt handheld radio, it’s not entirely unreasonable to believe that someone well funded would be capable of tracking and destroying a cubesat in orbit.

[gecko]

That's honestly an entirely legitimate point, but no nation, to my knowledge, at this point in time, has the ability to take out thousands of satellites, which is what either this or SpaceX's variant use. Besides which, taking out that many satellites would run a very real, very likely risk of kicking off an actual end to space exploration for a century while we waited for the space dust to settle. I'm not saying "no," but I'm saying "less likely than you think."