The Ground Station Business Nobody Noticed
Orbital Grid is betting that downlink, not launch, is the real bottleneck
Falling launch prices created a generation of small satellite operators. It also created a queue.\n\nDownlink capacity — the ground infrastructure that pulls data out of orbit — has not scaled at the same rate.\n\n## The economics\n\nOperators increasingly pay more for ground time than for the ride to orbit, which is the gap Orbital Grid is selling into.
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Mei Tanaka
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Space Technology · United States
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