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viasat is a bit heavier than the 100kg sats that will be done here. Doing 100Gbps with $1MM is unlikely although it might be possible in 5 years. 15 year lifet
by kashkhan 12y ago
viasat is a bit heavier than the 100kg sats that will be done here. Doing 100Gbps with $1MM is unlikely although it might be possible in 5 years.
15 year lifetime in 1000km orbit is not very likely, 5-7 year tops given propellant requirements.
for ~1000 satellites @ 100kg each that's about 2 saturn V launches so not crazy launch economics.
I guess they can do 30 sats per plane x 30 planes. That will give you the stable rings you need for backhaul.
son of teledesic may finally see the day with spacex :)
- lsaferite 12y agoI was so excited by Teledesic and so disappointed when they folded. If someone actually pulls off what they planned I'll be right in line to be a customer, likely regardless of price. I want to move far away from people and the only real limiter is decent high speed internet so I can do my work.
- nitrogen 12y agoIt's like the Synapse network from the movie Antitrust. I've always wondered why lower orbit, lower latency service wasn't available sooner.
- JshWright 12y ago> ~1000 satellites @ 100kg each that's about 2 saturn V launches so not crazy launch economics. Unless you have a couple Saturn V's tucked away somewhere no one knows about, it's more likely they'll be launched on SpaceX vehicles. Assuming Falcon Heavy ever flies, and has performance characteristics similar to those listed on spacex.com, they could launch 1000ish 100kg sats in 2-3 FH launches. It might be more likely that they'll simply fit as many as they can as secondary payloads in their normal launch schedule. Slower deployment, but effectively 'free'.