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by climech
1968 days ago
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F9 can only deliver 60 Starlink sats per launch, which would be 685 more launches. (Transporter-1 delivered more because the satellites were lighter/smaller.) SpaceX is currently developing Starship[1], which aims to increase the payload capacity to about 100,000 kg. The mass of a single Starlink v1.0 is 260 kg[2], which would be 384 sats per launch, although I've seen SpaceX talk about 400. If Starship was operational now, assuming the rate of 400 sats/launch, this would give us 103 more launches for the full constellation. For comparison, SpaceX launched 26 times in 2020, and is aiming for up to 54 launches in 2021[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He... |
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