I don’t think it has sunk in for many people that SpaceX is the freight company for space.
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Few people realize that the cost of sending a small package to low Earth orbit via this freight company is $15,000 a kilogram. Most people know that a person named Bezos will enter the market soon with a competitive offering.pic.twitter.com/vMof8mooqO
I’m aware of Bezos (maybe more than most people even). Blue Origin might even win. And I’ll call Blue Origin a freight company when it is shipping freight. Until then, it’s an impressive/promising R&D lab.
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Since I was the 4th employee of Teledesic I've been pricing launches to LEO since the early 1990s when the cheap option was a converted Russian ICBM called Dnepr https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr_(rocket) …. I've been modeling the business case for broadband satellite constellations since then too.
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I also know what ground terminals that can track moving satellites while operating at millimeter wave frequencies cost since I am on the board of a company called Kymeta which makes them (the company uses a holographic beam forming technology, sometimes known as metamaterials).
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