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by mulmen 363 days ago
Because you need an enormous amount of energy to run the servers. You may hide the downlinks but you still need power.
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I'm not sure how you maintain hidden ground stations while providing a commercial service that justifies many $MM in capital and requires state support to get launch permission.
> I'm not sure how you maintain hidden ground stations while providing a commercial service that justifies many $MM in capital and requires state support to get launch permission.

Who said that Starcloud's business model is about commercial services? At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397026 I rather speculate that Starcloud's business model is about getting big money defense contracts.

Yeah exactly. We’re riffing on how implausible that is, right?