In the span of seven years, humanity's presence in low Earth orbit grew nearly eightfold — not through the collective effort of nations and institutions, but largely through the ambition of a single private company. By June 2026, SpaceX's Starlink constellation alone numbered more than ten thousand active satellites, surpassing the entire orbital population that existed when the project began. What was once a shared commons built slowly over decades has been reshaped, at industrial speed, by one operator's design choices, business logic, and deployment rhythm — raising enduring questions about