It's all the same mistake made during the Dot Com era: "It's all free".
But it's NOT free. The fixed or variable costs might be lower than typically seen before but "smaller" ≠ "zero" just like "large" ≠ "infinite".
It's confusing these that causes most of these types of "entrepreneurship Epic Fails".
You still have to have an infrastructure which has non-zero fixed and variable cost.
When it comes to space (I used to be employed as a rocket scientist at a government Think Tank), the infrastructure costs are absolutely enormous even compared to more modest terrestrial systems. Like many orders of magnitude higher than, say, the entire interstate highway system. And it's because the risks and capital costs are that much higher.
But it's NOT free. The fixed or variable costs might be lower than typically seen before but "smaller" ≠ "zero" just like "large" ≠ "infinite".
It's confusing these that causes most of these types of "entrepreneurship Epic Fails".
You still have to have an infrastructure which has non-zero fixed and variable cost.
When it comes to space (I used to be employed as a rocket scientist at a government Think Tank), the infrastructure costs are absolutely enormous even compared to more modest terrestrial systems. Like many orders of magnitude higher than, say, the entire interstate highway system. And it's because the risks and capital costs are that much higher.