Bootstrapping lunar/cis-lunar satellite manufacturing facilities within a few years will relieve launch bottleneck.

Bootstrapping lunar/cis-lunar satellite manufacturing facilities within a few years will relieve launch bottleneck. | I I mean I I I'm all for bootstrapping a space ecosystem and industrial ecology using Starship. But I I do think a as we in the not too distant future, like maybe a few years from now, start to boot bootstrap lunar facilities, cis lunar facilities for constructing new satellites, I I think there's a universe in which maybe the current bottleneck that we have where there's just the one major launch provider in the west where we get past that through a bootstrapped industrial ecology on the moon.

I I mean I I I'm all for bootstrapping a space ecosystem and industrial ecology using Starship. But I I do think a as we in the not too distant future, like maybe a few years from now, start to boot bootstrap lunar facilities, cis lunar facilities for constructing new satellites, I I think there's a universe in which maybe the current bottleneck that we have where there's just the one major launch provider in the west where we get past that through a bootstrapped industrial ecology on the moon.

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