Great article, looking forward to the follow up.
Omega's expendable solids might not be as sexy as reusable boosters or upper stages but diversity in the launch market is a good thing. Considering that the national launch market was a monoply only a few years ago, seeing all this competition now is great.
With all the tools NGIS have in their tool box, they should be able to field a strong proposal to provide and/or deliver modules and cargo to the Gateway station.
For the rest of the world (besides Liberia and Myanmar). :-)
I'm curious what the satcom operators think of this design. They sent a public letter to complain about using only solids for the first stage of Ariane 6 (before the design changed).