[ih] SpaceX may spend billions to outsource Starlink satellite-dish production, an industry insider says — and could lose $2,000 on each one it sells

[Joly MacFie]

One assumes that Musk has done the math.

I read a while back that he expects Starlink to fund the entire Mars effort.

joly

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 4:23 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via
Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> I presume that all of these satellites will be located above the United
> States, or does the FCC have jurisdiction over the whole world's airspace?
>
> The other question I have is what makes this offering different to past
> failed LEO offerings? We're told "this time it will be different" yet
> the world's moving towards a better and more efficient use of resources
> (it needs to) and there's nothing green about a LEO network. Remember
> that the earth's gravity has not changed in the past 20 years. Unless
> someone's worked on it, it remains at 9.80665 m/s^2. What goes up must
> come down. the lifetime of a LEO satellite is anything between 5 to 7
> years.
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 26/11/2020 00:07, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
> Internet-history wrote:
> > in late May:
> >
> > --> SpaceX submitted an application to the FCC for its second generation
> > system of 30,000 Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellites
> > https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-LOA-20200526-00055/2378669.pdf
> > via
> >
> https://www.satellitetoday.com/launch/2020/06/04/spacex-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-2/
> >
> > --> OneWeb has told the FCC that it wants to increase the number of
> > satellites in its constellation to 48,000, viz.:
> >
> https://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/2020/05/27/oneweb-explains-fcc-application-for-48000-constellation-satellites/
> >
> > and at the end of July:
> >
> > --> The FCC granted Amazon approval on Thursday to build out Project
> > Kuiper, its planned constellation of 3,236 satellites in Low-Earth Orbit
> >
> https://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/2020/07/31/fcc-approves-amazons-kuiper-constellation/
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:12 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> the keyboard of geoff goodfellow wrote in
> >>   <CAEf-zriE35fPZDoAffzW0fwtpvtxk2VqSXodu0s4jQDXC4Y+7Q at mail.gmail.com>:
> >>    ...
> >>   |   - *SpaceX recently launched a public beta test for Starlink, its
> >> growing
> >>   |   network of internet-beaming satellites
> >>
> >> Sorry not to step in cheering this.
> >> I think now the time has come to raise massive taxes on these
> >> things which violate the heaven above.
> >> The sheer number of rocket resource needed to keep these lines
> >> closed is ridiculous.  Is there any science going on on improving
> >> the situation regarding this?  Space lift?
> >> And i am very, very thankful that at least the newer satellites of
> >> _that_ company seem to hide their solar panel reflections from the
> >> earth, it always have been moments of deeply felt hate seeing
> >> these (?) lines of satellites flying by (following each other
> >> within ~30 seconds), i personally would have shoot them.
> >> I know there are cultures on this world which feel the same.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >> (And i _love_ books, battered or not.)
> >>
> >> --steffen
> >> |
> >> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> >> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> >> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> >> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
> >>
> >>
>
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