[mdorazio]

You're still looking at over a hundred thousand dollars to put a single 1U cubesat in orbit (including development, testing, and certification for the sat itself). And that would be moving at 6-7km/s relative to the ground, so you can see how expensive it would be to put any kind of useful personal constellation into orbit still

[cbozeman]

> And that would be moving at 6-7km/s relative to the ground, so you can see how expensive it would be to put any kind of useful personal constellation into orbit still

No, I can't see that... because I'm not a satellite communications expert. My training is evolutionary biology and international business.

I don't know how many satellites it would take to provide private communications across the United States, or the globe, or any section of area. It sounds like you might though.

Let's say one wanted to create their own personal satellite communications for telephone and data transmission. How many would you need?

[max_]

How much would it roughly cost to have a constellation of private satellites?