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	Comments on: June 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast with Iridium CEO Matt Desch	</title>
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		By: Edward		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium: &quot;Certainly, SpaceX has really been a disrupter of the industry, and I think they&#039;ve shaken everything up, and they&#039;ve made it possible for operators like us to even consider our next generation [of satellites].&quot; 

This comment echos the one from Maxim Zayakov, CEO of BulgariaSat: “&lt;i&gt;People don’t realize that, for small countries and small companies like us, without SpaceX, there was no way we would ever be able to even think about space&lt;/i&gt;”
http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/bulgaria-credits-spacexs-low-costs-for-making-its-satellite-possible/ 

One of the benefits of reducing the cost of getting to space is that more companies can afford to get there in order to do business.  It is basic economics: lower prices and greater supply lead to greater demand.  That is why it was predicted, a decade or two ago, that if launch costs were reduced then there would be more demand to get to space.  It looks like the economic supply/demand model and the predictions are being proved correct.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium: &#8220;Certainly, SpaceX has really been a disrupter of the industry, and I think they&#8217;ve shaken everything up, and they&#8217;ve made it possible for operators like us to even consider our next generation [of satellites].&#8221; </p>
<p>This comment echos the one from Maxim Zayakov, CEO of BulgariaSat: “<i>People don’t realize that, for small countries and small companies like us, without SpaceX, there was no way we would ever be able to even think about space</i>”<br />
<a href="http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/bulgaria-credits-spacexs-low-costs-for-making-its-satellite-possible/" rel="ugc">http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/bulgaria-credits-spacexs-low-costs-for-making-its-satellite-possible/</a> </p>
<p>One of the benefits of reducing the cost of getting to space is that more companies can afford to get there in order to do business.  It is basic economics: lower prices and greater supply lead to greater demand.  That is why it was predicted, a decade or two ago, that if launch costs were reduced then there would be more demand to get to space.  It looks like the economic supply/demand model and the predictions are being proved correct.</p>
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