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Yeah, you kinda got the impression that things were changing when Iridium was launching a 5 billion dollar satellite on a 50 million dollar rocket.
by foxyv 9y ago
Yeah, you kinda got the impression that things were changing when Iridium was launching a 5 billion dollar satellite on a 50 million dollar rocket.
- greglindahl 9y agoIridiumNEXT started with a budget of $2.1 billion for satellites and $800mm for launches. http://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/iridium-next/ http://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/iridium-next/ That's not that different of a ratio from a GEO comsat that costs $200mm and has a $65mm launch. I haven't run the numbers for OneWeb.