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Starship Will Change Humanity Soon (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
4 points by mparramon 1153 days ago
2 comments
retrocryptid 1153 days ago
Sure. But it has to make it to orbit first.

Also. Too many inaccuracies in that article to list them all.

But the big one is... there's not a HUGE backlog of stuff we're trying to put into LEO. Right now it's mostly starlink satellites to LEO.

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Zigurd 1153 days ago
This... "But the big one is... there's not a HUGE backlog of stuff we're trying to put into LEO" ...is way under-reported. Half of what's in orbit is Starlink! But that only supports 1M subscribers, based on the last public set of numbers.

The current constellation is mostly a "bent pipe" network that has no inter-satellite communication. The new satellites that are intended to form a kind of "backbone in orbit," even the "mini" versions, are much larger and heavier and those need an economical working Starship to make financial sense.

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BMc2020 1153 days ago
Upvote for many interesting charts and graphs

edit: dang, I have a stalker downvoting my comments. There really are many interesting charts and graphs.

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