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Dan Garretson

Oct 5, 2026

2:07
or something,
2:07
right? Cellular phones, exactly.
2:09
And there was even talk of the growth in sort of demand for space-based internet at that time.
2:15
That was actually part of the business case for some of the rockets that the Boeing and Lockheed Martin folks built, the so-called EELB.
2:23
Turned out that didn't pan out, and we ended up in early 2000s with a global sort of minimum, if you will, in the total number of space launches.
2:32
It just wasn't much demand.
2:34
But then Elon came along and was really thinking hard about how to actually turn this into a commercial market.

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34:34
Do we have a way to address that or protect it?

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