The difficult choice constellation operators face.
Two routes to orbit exist today – the taxi and the train – and neither delivers what a constellation actually needs.
Constellation satellites only earn revenue in their operating plane and altitude. A dedicated small launcher is the taxi: it delivers exactly that orbit, door to door, but at a price per kilogram that challenges constellation economics. A heavy-launcher rideshare is the train: cheap per seat, but it drops every payload at the same station – a standard orbit far from where the constellation needs it.
Today they pick one and pay for the other: in cash, or in months spent reaching the right orbit.







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