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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by osamagirl69 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:28AM (#23367896)
For the time being, they are targeting specialty applications where it is not uncommon to charge in excess of $1000 per meter even for normal earthly fibers.

For scaling up, if one uses the smallest commercial fiber standard (80um diameter cladding--they would put the buffer and whatnot on after it comes back to earth) the mass of the fiber is only 53grams/km so using your $3000/kg the cargo cost is only $0.16/meter which seems pretty palatable to me.

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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by chas on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:59PM (#23372210)
What’s the application of super high-quality earth cable?
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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by SXX on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:45AM (#23377468)
That's kind a obvious: high-frequency trading. Thousands of banks and companies will happily to pay premium to get some edge over competitors. As soon as single entity on market have it everyone else would want it as well so there will be plenty of demand.
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