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Number of flights, number of people, total payload weight, total gross weight, total delta-v/kg, revenue ... there's a lot of ways to measure %. Fwiw, I was co
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
Number of flights, number of people, total payload weight, total gross weight, total delta-v/kg, revenue ... there's a lot of ways to measure %.
Fwiw, I was counting satellite costs in my napkin math, where 30b seems reasonable. And I wasn't counting only spacex. There's obviously clearly zero chance there's even 0.001% of the number of space astronauts a year as there are people who flew, and I just refuse to believe anyone would actively be making that claim, so it seemed logical to me to search for better things to assess that space flight seems like it might possibly perhaps be 10% of.
- rKarpinski 3y agoYou don't need to search for anything they literally link to https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106184 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106184 when they give that stat... they practically plagiarize the section & grossly misrepresent the statistic "a small proportion of the overall number of commercial space operations—about 10 percent in 2023" -> "a small proportion of the commercial airspace — about 10% in 2023"