As Starlink and fully reusable Starship become increasingly dominant—potentially increasing bandwidth by over 100 times, deploying satellites by 20 times, and dropping the cost to space by 50 times in the next 2–4 years—the risk of nationalization grows sharply. SpaceX's emerging monopoly status in critical infrastructure. SpaceX must rapidly grow beyond government contracts. SpaceX Starlink is already over half of its revenue. This must and will rapidly increase to over ten times government and military revenue.

SpaceX has to have more partnerships with other private space and telecom companies. They need to share launch capacity, satellite access, or technology. A competitive ecosystem would make the case for nationalization less compelling.