SpaceX turns away Falcon 9 customers for Starship focus

SpaceX has begun turning away commercial Falcon 9 customers to focus resources on its Starship rocket, threatening to freeze the launch pipeline for satellite operators. The author argues that this retirement of the industry's dominant medium-lift rocket creates a single point of failure and a national security vulnerability, urging public agencies and the private industry to distribute payloads and build alternative capacity. Open article →