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From the official launch video from SpaceX: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13 https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13 Around 20 min
by throwaway2037 3mo ago
From the official launch video from SpaceX: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13 https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13
Around 20 minutes into the flight, they deploy 20x v3 sats. Google search tells me those cost more than 1M USD each. Yikes... they burned up 20M USD for a "few tests". Damn, space is expensive! The official video says that SpaceX only had twenty minutes to test the deployed sats before they fall back to the atmosphere.
- fancy_pantser 3mo agoWorth it to prove the pez dispenser deployed them correctly? Small % of the total launch cost.