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SpaceX Rideshare Making Tougher Times for Launch Startups: Ill-Defined Space

SpaceX's successful small satellite rideshare launch program limits launch startups' "latitude for making mistakes," Ill-Defined Space's John Holst blogged Friday. He said SpaceX's Starship heavy launch vehicle "will narrow that even more." And Chinese launch operators potentially could "be more…

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devastating" than SpaceX on other smalllsat launchers, he said. Many startups are ignoring the value proposition SpaceX offers for launching smallsats cheaply.