No single founder has reshaped a frontier industry the way Elon Musk has reshaped orbit. SpaceX's reusable boosters did not just lower launch cost; they reset what every other company in the sector is benchmarked against.
The interesting question is no longer whether SpaceX dominates. It's what an entire economy looks like when one company owns the road.
Starlink's expansion, Starship's payload bay, and a quietly growing in-house satellite manufacturing arm point to a vertical stack that competitors haven't even begun to assemble.