Satellite service & hardware providers weigh strategy in a future Starlink/Kuiper world. ‘Run and hide’ not an option

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS — For satellite service providers and hardware builders, the question is not complicated or new:

What’s your survival strategy when SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper constellations are fully operational?

Both appear intent on creating their own ecosystems with proprietary standards, so forget selling much to them. Both appear able to go for many years, spending billions of dollars, before becoming profitable.

Several possible answers were offered during The HTS Roundtable, organized Dec. 8 by c21 . . .

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