Musk won't pay to build power satellites, but I'm sure he'd be happy to
sell launches if someone else whats to.
On 2019-12-25 08:32, Keith Henson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:09 PM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Superheavy/Starship should be able to get to that cost, or lower, and
requires no new propulsion technology.
True, though it is not obvious that Musk will let SpaceX rockets be
used for power satellites.
The two problems are the launch rate for a serious power satellite
project is high, and the other problem is how much damage hydrocarbon
rockets do to the ozone?
Keith