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I just want to know where that estimate comes from - as far as I know, any estimate of cost is a WAG. For example, my WAG with today's new info: - 167k per sat
by SECProto 7y ago
I just want to know where that estimate comes from - as far as I know, any estimate of cost is a WAG. For example, my WAG with today's new info:
- 167k per sat construction cost
- 20 mill per launch (at-cost WAG)
- 333k launch costs per sat
- 500k per sat total cost
these numbers give a final 12000 sat constellation cost of 6 billion. The initial 1600 sat constellation comes to 800million
But if my assumptions are off, it could be way less or more. If they make the satellites even cheaper, or at cost launches are less, or they end up being able to launch on Starship, it's significantly less. If sats cost more, or launches are more, then the cost goes through the roof.
- zaroth 7y agoEven $10 billion for global high speed low latency network coverage at the aggregate bandwidth they are planning is extremely cheap. Comcast spends ~$8 billion on CapEx annually.
- zaroth 7y agoI searched for a while to try to find stats on Comcast's aggregate network capacity, either in amount of data transmitted or the peak/average bandwidth utilization. I'd be curious to compare this to theoretical capacity of the SpaceX network.