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This guy mocked it up in KSP

So how many more launches until they have minimum 100% coverage?

>>12021398

flip time

>>11550842
noice

>>11393001
>>11393015

>>11342488
That is part of the plan, actually.

I'm ready for 52 pickup!

>>11244880
>>11244886
Also it's too slow, you would drop out of orbit before you could reduce your orbital velocity enough to avoid a hot re-entry.
Solar sails are more like ion engines, slow, continuous dV.

>>11244931
>Depends how much the antenna costs
It's probably going to be a big square patch antenna like the ones on Starlink itself, so economies of scale ought to kick in nicely.
It also gets to compete with telcos wanting $5K or so to dig a new fiber to a rural location.
>a tiled underside for reentry
Also it's made out of steel, not aluminum or some expensive aerospace alloy, which starts out able to take more heat.

>>11244938
When you are throwing stacks of satellites up twice a month and miss a lunch, you can't really consider a specific launch from months ago to have been "delayed".

>>11245431
Which episode of Space Brothers was that? Only there was no SpaceX equivalent on that show.

>>11135315

>>11135304
Are you ready to play "52 Pick-Up", Elon-style?

>>11085141

>>11043447
>Iridium had about ten thousand subscribers when it had to file for bankruptcy
Iridium was also shit back then. It was designed for handheld phones, not data. IIRC it had no digital mode, so all you could do was run 9600 baud analog through it. But at least it was low enough latency that normal modems should work.
And it only had 77 satellites, so a lot less potential bandwidth. And they could only be launched five at a time, making it much more costly than Starlink's deck of 60 cards (maybe more from Starship) deployment.
>>11043584
>a small chance that it would
...be in an orbit too close to ISS (where the primary mission went). There was a 5% chance it would be "too close" to ISS due to not having full launch boost.

https://hackaday.com/2019/05/31/see-starlinks-space-train-before-it-leaves-the-station/