SpaceX Builds 120 Starlink Satellites, Costs Millions Each Month

Posted by RobertSmith on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:01PM
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https://interestingengineering.com/spacex-builds-120-starlink-satellites-costs-millions-each-month

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Re:SpaceX Builds 120 Starlink Satellites, Costs Millions Eac... by verdverm on Thursday August 13, 2020 @02:19PM (#24146420)

With a market potential of $30B / year, according to Elon. Starlink exists to fund Starship because launch revenues are not sufficient.

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Re:SpaceX Builds 120 Starlink Satellites, Costs Millions Eac... by nickik on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:32PM (#24148547)

And to really make Starlink profitable, they need to launch it with Starship. Funny how it all comes around.

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Re:SpaceX Builds 120 Starlink Satellites, Costs Millions Eac... by woodandsteel on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:17PM (#24150235)

One of the reasons Musk is a genius is he can figure out these sorts of synergies.

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Re:SpaceX Builds 120 Starlink Satellites, Costs Millions Eac... by anoncareer0212 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:24PM (#24147282)

lol

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Re:SpaceX Builds 120 Starlink Satellites, Costs Millions Eac... by m463 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:10PM (#24151569)

I didn't have any idea of the scale of things already in place. Why doesn't this get more press? (besides this article)

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Re:SpaceX Builds 120 Starlink Satellites, Costs Millions Eac... by nickik on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:36PM (#24191737)

Unlike other SpaceX projects, SpaceX has been more quite about this, but fans new it was coming for a long time. However now that they start to show of ground systems and actually launch, you see more and more news about it come out.

I think once they start to roll it out to beta testers who are allowed to talk about it, you will see a much more.

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