I'm getting weird vibes about this post. It seems to be a cleaned-up version of an LLM draft. Some of the tell-tale signs are sections that blab without much substance, some things that don't make much sense (environmental monitoring MUST capture more data to meet regulatory standards?!), highly hallucinated parts ("Refueling and orbit boosting missions are becoming more common" -> no, these are not common, but planned to be tested soon-ish) and the general feeling that the knowledge cutoff is somewhere in '24 (which would match with the current generation of SotA models).

The laser part is missing both the technical demo of Dragon having livestreams, and hours of uninterrupted signal, the fact that their minilasers are mentioned on the site, offer 25gbps links, and already planned to be integrated with 3rd parties (you can get confirmations from their partners with a simple google search). And apparently as of Jan '26 SpX plan for space-to-ground optical systems as well.

What a weird article.