Elon Musk startled many in the audience at his Satellite 2020 keynote when he stated his primary goal for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband service was to “not go bankrupt.” He was referring to high-profile business failures in the 1990s related to the first wave of satellite operators in LEO: Globalstar, Iridium, Orbcomm, and Teledesic.
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