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Any company that wishes to compete with Starlink needs to be careful of costs. One reason OneWeb ran out of money is that they ended up spending 2X/satellite th
by wumpus 5y ago
Any company that wishes to compete with Starlink needs to be careful of costs. One reason OneWeb ran out of money is that they ended up spending 2X/satellite than their plan, in their fancy high volume factory.
- kortilla 5y agoCompeting with starlink is likely difficult, but there will be lots of room to disrupt observation, satellite radio, etc etc etc.
- wumpus 5y agoPeople are already doing earth observation from larger numbers of small satellites and very large numbers of cube sats. https://www.planet.com/our-constellations/ https://www.planet.com/our-constellations/ They started with this strategy before Starlink was started.