it's design is purely an offensive weapon since the billions spent to build/launch a communications or music sat as compared to simply buying one and having it put in orbit, it'd almost look free. it's design is purely an offensive weapon since the billions spent to build/launch a communications or music sat as compared to simply buying one and having it put in orbit, it'd almost look free.You’re right. Put “commercial satellite launch costs” into google and it looks like a launch could be had for 60 to 120 million. Why spend an order of magnitude (or two) higher than that on a iffy home-grown approach?