Based on the time limits in their license, I'd guess they are going to be launching the initial batch of them on F9 at ~24 sats per launch with a ballpark cost of ~30 mil per launch. Round it up to 1.5 mil per sat to launch and ballpark 500k for the sat so 2 mil each in the air. Thats not too bad considering that they will likely get manufacturing costs of the sat down in time and will eventually be launching on a reusable second stage (BFR). Lets guesstimate that they can eventually get the cost down to 1mil in the air with a lifetime of 2 years so 500K per year. Would you pay 500K per year per AP for 20Gig APs with minimal LOS issues that could cover the whole world? Numbers aren't amazing, but I'm betting they could at a minimum break even and likely make ok money on it while using it to create the egg needed to bring launch costs down. It solves the chicken/egg launcher/payload issue.
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:03 AM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > Except they still haven’t called the lodge cost problem. Just because they > own the launch mechanism, doesn’t mean there isn’t a cost associated with > it. You still have a cost negative at that point unless you can figure out > a way to make it positive even if it’s on a different company. > > >
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