Acquisition. Plus you need to gang them up behind multiple telescopes, and add the aiming hardware, so there's some multiplier.On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:40:01 +0000, Ian Woollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Incidentally, the cost of a laser watt is around ~$1. So Step zero: get finance.Is that the acquisition cost, or the operations cost?
Hmm, they do wear out I suppose; but you should be able to get thousands of hours. Actually that starts to get significant. If they last 1000 hours then I make that about $83/kg, 5000 hours- $16/kg, so it depends on how long they last.
Oh yeah, and Jordin says that the $1/W cost is dropping at 30% a year currently... gotta love Moore's law. I can't think of any other part of rocketry that is doing that.
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