Newsletter: The Space Railroad

SpaceX is selling the Optical Inter-Satellite Links that it's been deploying on Starlink, so I caught up with one of the company's former directors Abhi Tripathi and Mynaric CEO Mustafa Veziroglu for their takes on the implications for the "space lasers" market.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/21/investing-in-space-what-to-make-of-spacex-selling-satellite-lasers.html

@michaelsheetz To clarify, do these OISL devices *only* work with Starlink (i.e., a way to hook other satellites into the SpaceX network), or could satellite makers use these devices to build their own independent network?