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Even if they were free launches that wouldn't rank above a taunt: most of the satellite cost is in the development and construction anyway.
by SiempreViernes 7y ago
Even if they were free launches that wouldn't rank above a taunt: most of the satellite cost is in the development and construction anyway.
- grey-area 7y agoStarlink satellites cost < 500k each, compared to hundreds of millions for traditional sats. If you mass produced space telescopes they wouldn't cost the ridiculous sums spent on JWST, which is a terrible example of the wasteful cost plus contracts of nasa. They've been planning it since 1996, and costs have risen from 1 billion to 10 billion.