[Dylan16807]

Your mention of satellite value gives me a thought: If spacex had to pay for the launch of 1 telescope for every 20 batches of starlink, how much use would that have compared to their interference?

> Just last week there was a front page HN article about how satellites may replace undersea cables for niche use cases.

They won't, that article was stupid.

Edit: Or, well, you added "niche" and the article very much didn't. It's true that a tiny fraction of data might use satellites instead, but there's going to be no meaningful "replacement".