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Communications over a specific geographic region and budget for only one bird and/or only one launch.

That's pretty much most of the world's nations' telecommunication needs. SpaceX has put up at least half a dozen satellites for small nations meeting these very common requirements.



Ah, that makes sense: if sovereignty is a driving requirement you can't just piggyback on the big LEO swarm deployments, but a single geostationary satellite covers exactly the territory that you care about. Now I understand. Thanks.




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