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Amazon is actively building a competing constellation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Leo

They have about 400 satellites already in orbit. It's not available for public sale yet but I believe they're close.

Oh good, a Jeff Bezos backed version, that solves the failure case.
It does for me. The failure case is white supremacy.
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To be fair, putting satellites in space is very expensive so the chances of it not being owned by some billionaire asshole is zero. But some billionaire assholes are better than others.