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The sky no longer has to be our limit. Launch costs have literally dropped by orders of magnitude in the last 5 years. The wall between us and space (i.e. the cost of launch) has been removed and we can now see our way in getting to space in an affordable manner. Additionally, the entire manufacturing supply chain (CAPEX) has been completely commoditized. Small companies do not have to build their own satellite. All we have to do is give our full service vendor partners the specifications for what we need built. Ongoing operations (OPEX) has also been completely commoditized and even virtualized. In fact, ground stations have actually already been not just commoditized but completely virtualized (see AWS's Ground Station As a Service offering). The time to make this happen is NOW.