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> much in the way that people don't buy a lorry if they just want to pick up their kid from school No, they buy multi-tons SUVs for that... and come up with al

• avmich 3y ago
  This website, of all means, talks surprisingly little about startups enabled with significantly reducing the price to get to orbit. "Masses" sent to orbit roughly split into 3 groups: heavy simple materials - mostly metal structures and fuel, complex devices - mostly electronics, and humans. Significantly and closely human-related things are practically humans (can't have humans in space without those roughly in the same flight). For the first group, the cost is mostly in delivering them to space, SpaceX mostly covers that. Second and third groups look quite promising. We already see several projects of orbital space stations; maybe more are in order? Also all kinds of in-space manufacturing - we already see profitable biological and high-tech electronics and communications products, but what about energy, satellite and deep space probes assembly and manufacturing, repairs of on-orbit things? > I'm sure we'll find many reasons to put a lot of new things in orbit if it's cheap enough. I'm sure we will - and hope we'll do it soon.