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Cacti | 1 year ago

Is this something we have evidence for, or is this just in theory?

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delichon|1 year ago

SpaceX built the biggest constellation to date, and is using the profits to build Falcons while designing Starships. Check out the resulting cost per kilo to orbit:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-e...

That's pretty good for theory.

bmitc|1 year ago

The theoretical part is whether that's actually useful for not. Cost per kilo to orbit doesn't magically solve astronomical observation problems.