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Re:The first on-orbit fuel depot has been deployed by blach on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:38PM (#27764371)
There are also a proliferating number of sun-sync earth observation small sats. These are often from capital/mass/volume limited new space companies. Lowering their initial launch mass allows them to prove out a business model for a lower cost and then refuel it if it works with future capital. Benchmark's "pay as you go" SaaS-like model is also interesting in the same vein.

Edit: correcting a typo

Re:The first on-orbit fuel depot has been deployed by brandmeyer on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:52PM (#27764543)
Depends on the fuel, though. Ion thrusters with a solid propellant are becoming popular in the smallsat business.