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Has any country achieved this feat? [update] Has any country achieved this feat at this cost?
by ForFreedom 10y ago
Has any country achieved this feat?
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Has any country achieved this feat at this cost?
- witty_username 10y agoIIRC the US and Russia have launched something like 30 satellites. But, nevertheless, impressive.
- ucaetano 10y agoFrom the article: The record for the most number of satellites launched in a single mission belongs to Russia, which sent up 37 satellites in 2014.
- pilsetnieks 10y agoRead the article: > The record for the most number of satellites launched in a single mission belongs to Russia, which sent up 37 satellites in 2014. Also, it's not exactly a feat. If someone really wanted, they could stuff a rocket full of nanosats but I imagine there's more risk in launching that much at once. (They could be released in sequence but still, more chances for something to go wrong.)
- sidcool 10y agoYep, it's that easy.
- pilsetnieks 10y agoIt's not what I said. I meant that there probably are reasons apart from difficulty that people don't launch so many satellites at once.
- ucaetano 10y agoYou mean cost/kg to LEO? My short search showed costs far higher than SpaceX.
- neeleshs 10y agoNDTV, an indian news channel, just reported that the launch cost was 50% less than spacex. No specifics were provided though.
- ucaetano 10y agoFrom another comment here: "the PSLV's payload to LEO is 3.25 tons. Wikipedia gives the cost of a launch at 15 million USD so that gives about $4600/kg to LEO. For context, that's nearly twice as expensive per kg as a Falcon 9 launch but they're difficult to compare because they serve different launch markets."