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by Grombobulous 15 days ago
I think that vision you paint of satellite-commanded robots makes reasonable sense. At the very least, we can assume it does.

But then I go back to my original question where I ponder whether that vision results in a gigantic company.

I look at some of the contracts I found some news articles about: Space Force has a $437 million (not billion) contract with ViaSat and SES, the Pentagon is said to be spending $13 billion on LEO satellite programs.

And we can’t forget that SpaceX doesn’t actually make any of the robots. They only make the communications stack.

AT&T has a market capitalization of about $150 billion, for comparison.