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So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real
by Pigalowda 1y ago
So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.
- jdminhbg 1y agoYes, they're bigger than the current Falcon 9 rockets can launch and can handle more bandwidth.
- decimalenough 1y agoStarship will be deploying the next gen v3 satellites, which weigh about 2 tons each. A single Starship launch with 60 of these deploys more capacity than 20 launches of a Falcon 9.
- geerlingguy 1y agoIIRC the v3 sats can do like 1 Tbps of bandwidth thanks to a larger antenna system?
- xeromal 1y agoWow, that really puts it into perspective
- Pedro_Ribeiro 1y agoThe figures they've been talking of the ideal cost per launch of starship are even more insane. I'm sure some of it is hype farming on Twitter but if they get the cost to less then $1000/kg it would be incredible.
- kersplody 1y agoNext flight should be a mass simulator of at least 100 tons to orbit. This flight was around ~10 tons to almost orbit. The economics of Starlink basically require high cadence Starship launches with 50+ Starlink v3 satellites on each flight.
- Teever 1y agoIsn't starlink a revenue generating endeavor already?
- daemonologist 1y agoYes; I think it would be more accurate to say that the economics of Starship basically require high cadence launches with lots of v3 Starlink satellites (because only the big internet constellations can financially justify launching so much payload to orbit right now).