But if our time in the space industry has taught us anything, it is to be wary of…

But if our time in the space industry has taught us anything, it is to be wary of conflating the way things are done with the way things ought to be done. Over the past 20 years, the space industry has been upended by companies like SpaceX that care little about precedent — Elon Musk famously fired the original Starlink executive team for their traditionalism and associated slowness — and given SpaceX’s success, the space world must surely have learned the difference between a physical law and an industry convention.