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And have you got a source thats not a nearly 2 decades old and not for government contract? Edit: here's one thats $30M https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/05
by dzhiurgis 1y ago
And have you got a source thats not a nearly 2 decades old and not for government contract?
Edit: here's one thats $30M https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/05/electron-tropics-launch-1/ https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/05/electron-tropics-lau...
- defrost 1y ago> have you got a source thats not a nearly 2 decades old Such as the Lockheed Martin 2024 contract I linked? Sure.. try that link, it's from last year and talks about grown up big boy weather sat costs in 2024.. Your $30m SmallSat is not in the same league as a full featured $300m sat .. I'll leave you to work out the differences. Moreover the launch costs for those $30m sats is under $8m each launch, again refuting an upstream claim about launch costs being higher than sat build costs. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron The starting price for delivering payloads to orbit is about US$7.5 million per launch, or US$25,000 per kg, which offers the only dedicated service at this price point.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoI had a bit of a chat with chatgpt and I agree the smallsats are not replacement just yet, but in future there's no doubt they are better in most ways - faster iteration, far better resolution and of course lower cost.