SpaceX's First Rideshare Customer Means Competition for Northrop
Three months ago, SpaceX shook up the market for small satellites -- and the small rockets that launch them -- by offering to bundle small satellites on dedicated rocket rides aboard its big Falcon 9 rocket. As the plan took shape, the threat from SpaceX loomed even greater for competing launch companies, with SpaceX offering monthly rocket rides to space alongside regularly scheduled launches of the company's Starlink internet satellites.
Combined, the two announcements pose a potentially mortal threat to the nascent market for other "small launch" providers -- and it turns out SpaceX's plan could shake up the space market in more ways than one.
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