SpaceX dominates the commercial launch market and now has a $12 billion backlog.
Musk has a project to place several thousand communications satellites into low orbit (800 km) to form an overlapping swarm, such that a transceiver ground station is in contact with about four at any given moment. This is proposed to provide gigabit speed connectivity and phone service anywhere on earth. His proposal is one of at least a half-dozen pursuing this as a goal. Low cost self-launch capability is a plus toward achieving a viable business, one providing orbital communications services.
I’m ready for the addition of another service option, in this case high capacity internet on-the-go, anywhere, and portable.