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If Musk gets Starship to work and is successful in driving down the costs of launching material into LEO by another couple of orders of magnitude as intended th
by r_hoods_ghost 5y ago
If Musk gets Starship to work and is successful in driving down the costs of launching material into LEO by another couple of orders of magnitude as intended then you can expect to see an explosion in the numbers of cheap and cheerful cubesats, not to mention experimental LEO factories and general weird stuff floating around in orbit. There will be a massive need for people to write control code and to process the data coming in. Unlike in the past the emphasis will be on knocking out "good enough" code, rather than something that is written to NASA standards, because the hardware being launched will be so cheap and the launch costs even cheaper. It is hard to get a grip on just how much more stuff is going to be up there by the end of the decade, all of which will require software writing for it.
- euroderf 5y agoSeems like it could be a textbook case of first-mover advantage.