The big question is how demand responds to supply, and price.

In extremis this sort issues blinds people to asteroid mining; there’s only so much demand at a price.

This is a great toe hold though, I doubt there’ll be enough demand to fund and run an orbital industrial facility, but it could play a part in that.

If a portion of all this surplus capital that is sloshing around the world could be profitably directed to space then momentum will build.