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Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) by bioh42_2 on Thursday February 03, 2011 @10:30AM (#2175052)
Even at that, the opportinity to significantly lower launch costs should be embraced.

But didn't you read the article? It explains clearly why even halving launch costs would not make much of a difference.

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Re:Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) by iwwr on Thursday February 03, 2011 @05:53PM (#2177324)
Halving launch costs would be significant, it would save the satellite industry many billions. Note that half orbital speed discount is much more than 50% in launch energy savings.
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