SpaceX-Focused Pentagon Contracts Leave Rivals Feeling Squeezed
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Defense space budgets concentrating around SpaceX means smaller contractors are now competing against an integrated launch-plus-satcom stack. If you sell into defense space, you either need to plug into that ecosystem or differentiate on niches where a vertically integrated giant is structurally slow or constrained.
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