Science upside for Starship

Re:Science upside for Starship by wumpus on Monday November 22, 2021 @03:40PM (#29311344)

Any company that wishes to compete with Starlink needs to be careful of costs. One reason OneWeb ran out of money is that they ended up spending 2X/satellite than their plan, in their fancy high volume factory.

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Re:Science upside for Starship by kortilla on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:25PM (#29313252)

Competing with starlink is likely difficult, but there will be lots of room to disrupt observation, satellite radio, etc etc etc.

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Re:Science upside for Starship by wumpus on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:47PM (#29314075)

People are already doing earth observation from larger numbers of small satellites and very large numbers of cube sats.

https://www.planet.com/our-constellations/

They started with this strategy before Starlink was started.

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