Everyone is focused on the precipitous drop in launch costs, but the supply chain is really where the biggest opportunities now lie.

Many suppliers are struggling with finding the right balance between economies of scale, lead time, modularity/standardization, reliability, and (backwards) compatibility.

As industry volume increases, this should start straightening itself out. The challenge is that there's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem at the moment: there's a severe lack of transparency, meaning that commercial market forces are largely missing.

So greater transparency = greater competitiveness = better price/value ratio = faster, better, cheaper satellites