Re:Musk files to provide Internet service from space
by dankohn1 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @07:11AM
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We were looking at about $10 K per kg to orbit, and we could barely make the economics work. It looks like SpaceX is offering $4 K. [0] Presumably, reusable launch vehicles will drop his costs another order of magnitude, but they shouldn't actually be necessary to make this sort of system viable.
[0] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1989/what-is-the-cu...