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Identify high yield market, commoditize, everyone benefits, except the old school and their previously captive audience and mandatory long-term commitments. Sou
by _wmd 8y ago
Identify high yield market, commoditize, everyone benefits, except the old school and their previously captive audience and mandatory long-term commitments. Sound familiar?
I wonder if the same principle could work for telescopes, or are radio telescope designs far too specialized to be a commodity? Huge installations funded in spite political boundaries might be possible in such a scenario
- pilsetnieks 8y agoMaybe they're setting up for customers like SpaceX and the like, with potentially huge satellite arrays.
- wmf 8y agoI would predict the opposite. If you have 4,000 satellites you can justify ground stations but if you have one cubesat you might prefer to rent by the minute.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoIf you have one cubesat, you'll probably use Starlink (once operational) instead of your own ground station.
- gpm 8y agoIs starlink going to work for third party satellite communication? Somehow I assumed that the antennas would be directional towards earth. Also the proposed ground stations are said to be pizza box sized, a bit large for a cubesat if they can't be miniaturized.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoGood question. I reached out to a contact at SpaceX to get more info.
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- wrs 8y agoAlready being done in a small way: https://www.itelescope.net/ https://www.itelescope.net/