Orbital payload is roughly $10,000/lb. If they had 10,000 satellites at 600lb each, that would be $60B. Just to put it there. To say nothing of the cost of the equipment itself. Just a simple sanity says that large equipment doesn't make sense for the sheer number they have achieved.
These satellites are tiny. Each smaller than a typical laptop.
https://swarm.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Swarm-Satellite.jpg
SpaceX launches hundreds of these at a time.
Orbital payload is roughly $10,000/lb. If they had 10,000 satellites at 600lb each, that would be $60B. Just to put it there. To say nothing of the cost of the equipment itself. Just a simple sanity says that large equipment doesn't make sense for the sheer number they have achieved.