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Do you have any good sources on that? Not that I doubt you, but would like to read more on the subject.
by H8crilA 7y ago
Do you have any good sources on that? Not that I doubt you, but would like to read more on the subject.
- shaklee3 7y agoSee the cost of phased array, which Leo needs to work. They're significantly more expensive than standard parabolic dishes, and there's no evidence SpaceX has changed that.
- ericd 7y agoBased on Elon's standard playbook, I'm guessing he's going to try to bring down unit economics with much larger scale in phased array manufacturing than we've seen in the past. If he didn't think he could do this, I don't think they'd be launching Starlink. That said, I know almost nothing about phased arrays, so I don't know if it's expensive due to some fundamental reason, or if it's partly because it's been a niche/low volume device before now.
- shaklee3 7y agoRight, Elon needs that to come down to work. The satellite part is very cool and all, but the ground station cost is where the uncertainty is.
- portyllo 7y agoWell, look at Oneweb as an example. They have raised 3+ billions, still need more funding and their total system throughout is not that much larger than Viasat-3's,which has a cost of ~1 billion (?). I don't think that Starlink is gonna be significantly (maybe a factor of 0.5x) cheaper in terms of cost per Mbps.