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The price of launching a set of satellites that covers that area divided by the number of customers that will use it over the number of years that's in service?
by ccrush 10y ago
The price of launching a set of satellites that covers that area divided by the number of customers that will use it over the number of years that's in service? That's a price.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoThe GOMX-3 (https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/gomx-3 https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missio...) is a pretty cost effective satellite. I bet you could put a dozen up as 'ridealongs' with one of the ISS resupply missions.
- neurotech1 10y agoOne issue is getting the different orbital planes covered. Its possible with an "upper stage" booster[0], but that is significantly more expensive than a typical CubeSat carrier/deployer[1] for the ride-along launches. As far as I know, there is no current smallsat/cubesat sized upper stage intended for changing orbital planes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_(rocket_stage) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_(rocket_stage) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoRacks_CubeSat_Deployer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoRacks_CubeSat_Deployer