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Launching 4,425 satellites sounds very expensive. Both Iridium and Globalstar went bankrupt at the start of the millennium because of sky-high ambitions. Revenues were minuscule, while operating expenses and interest payments on billions of dollars of debt were enormous.
When SpaceX goes bankrupt too, there's going to be a lot of space trash and it's going to look like the aerial version of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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