I don’t see SpaceX prioritizing the development of Starship's clamshell fairing to deploy commercial space industry payloads until the end of the decade. Far too busy with: - Developing Starship V3 - Then Starlink V3 deployments - Then refueling - Then HLS testing - Then a lunar landing - Then ODC deployments - Then Starship V4 - Then a Mars launch window And most importantly, as SpaceX marches toward $100B in revenue (via Starlink, xAI, ODCs), its incentive to deploy customer payloads will continue to decline. Pez dispenser deployments will be available far sooner (maybe 2028). But that requires sat manufacturers to build to very specific specs. My guess is SpaceX will prioritize the clamshell fairing when it looks to significantly scale up the size of its orbital data center sats (bigger is better for ODC costs, scaling, and operations). Perhaps they build some sort of Pez adapter, but the larger question is what will motivate SpaceX to launch customer payloads at all? Launching customer payloads has never been an attractive/profitable/large market. Launch works as a means to deploy your own constellation at a low cost. From a CFO's perspective, if you can get the necessary launch volume from Starlink + ODCs, launching onesie-twosie customer Starship missions would be a distraction for a $100B revenue business. Particularly because the vast majority of satellite operators won't need a dedicated Starship and will want rideshare. Look at Falcon 9, customers rarely need dedicated missions, which is why rideshare is so popular, and why dedicated customers fill up about 20% of F9's capacity. But rideshare is a low-margin biz. I do think they will launch customer payloads and at a lower price than F9, as they have a history of supporting the growth of the broader industry. But the company has grown far, far beyond being just a launch provider.