For more than a decade, the Falcon 9 quietly became the infrastructure upon which a generation of satellite ambitions was built — reliable, affordable, and ever-present. Now SpaceX has closed the rideshare order book as it turns its gaze toward Starship, leaving an industry that shaped itself around one rocket suddenly without its foundation. The gap between what was and what is not yet operational is not merely a scheduling problem; it is a moment of reckoning for how dependent commercial spaceflight became on a single provider's generosity.