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Starship Will Change Humanity Soon
- retrocryptid 3y agoSure. But it has to make it to orbit first. Also. Too many inaccuracies in that article to list them all. But the big one is... there's not a HUGE backlog of stuff we're trying to put into LEO. Right now it's mostly starlink satellites to LEO.
- Zigurd 3y agoThis... "But the big one is... there's not a HUGE backlog of stuff we're trying to put into LEO" ...is way under-reported. Half of what's in orbit is Starlink! But that only supports 1M subscribers, based on the last public set of numbers. The current constellation is mostly a "bent pipe" network that has no inter-satellite communication. The new satellites that are intended to form a kind of "backbone in orbit," even the "mini" versions, are much larger and heavier and those need an economical working Starship to make financial sense.
- BMc2020 3y agoUpvote for many interesting charts and graphs edit: dang, I have a stalker downvoting my comments. There really are many interesting charts and graphs.