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No idea about the feasibility of this, but it seems like hitching a cheap rideshare to a non-ideal but heavily populated/serviced orbit on a bulk carrier like F
by ericd 5y ago
No idea about the feasibility of this, but it seems like hitching a cheap rideshare to a non-ideal but heavily populated/serviced orbit on a bulk carrier like Falcon 9 or Starship and then contracting with a little ferry to help your sat get to its final orbit could help SpaceX negate one of the big advantages of the companies launching smaller rockets that launch direct to final orbit?
Kind of like remaking the old hub and spoke model, with Starship being the bulk 747, similar to the era when air travel was prohibitively expensive and demand was still too low to support direct point to point everywhere.