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Spacex has really brought the cost down to get to orbit and so you can throw up 100s or small satellites for that amount of money probably. Unprecedented levels
by getcrunk 3y ago
Spacex has really brought the cost down to get to orbit and so you can throw up 100s or small satellites for that amount of money probably. Unprecedented levels of coverage
- bell-cot 3y agoEven assuming a mere 7 Falcon 9 launches (to get some variety of orbits) and 350 satellites - that'd be (using some Starlink numbers, and a supposed Falcon 9 list price) ~300kg satellites, and $3.8M per satellite - R&D and manufacturing - to squeak in under the $1.8B budget. (Or supposed budget...) Vs. Tomahawk cruise missiles supposedly have a unit cost of $2M each. And over 80 of those (one-shot, expendable) missiles were launched in just one day recently, against Houthi targets involved in the current Red Sea conflict.