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Pretty much everyone over 50 who had experience in constellations in the 2010s worked on Star Wars.


Sure, that's why satellite constellations were developed. The thing people might not appreciate is that it's still the main driver for these companies to develop them.


> it's still the main driver for these companies to develop them

It’s not. Not by a long shot. Like, OneWeb and Planet Labs are not secretly ABM projects.

It’s a motivation. One that until recently didn’t pay the bills. But it’s never been the motivation for any commercial constellation so far. (Starshield comes close. But I wouldn’t say ABM is even in the top three military motivations for that project.)




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