Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That's finally changing.

Starship's 100+ metric ton payload capacity is inverting the traditional launch-satellite relationship: instead of rockets being designed around satellite trends, satellite manufacturers are now adapting their designs to exploit Starship's abundant capacity, with SpaceX demonstrating this shift via its flat-packed Starlink V3 satellites deployed via a novel 'Pez dispenser' mechanism.

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