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ben_wyesterday at 10:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

From what I've seen (Google paper, IIRC), it only makes sense economically if Musk's stretch goals for price/kg to orbit for Starship become true.

Technically it's fine, just take something like Starlink and use most of the power for compute rather than for comms.

But financially, it depends on price to orbit being extremely low; not just lower than Falcon, but as low as Musk's best public claims about what may be coming at some point.


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PunchyHamsteryesterday at 11:10 PM

Yeah but how's that more financially viable than "build your own solar battery farm to power data center on ground"

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dzhiurgistoday at 12:54 AM

787 is vastly more expensive than Starship, but Starship uses 7x more fuel to get to orbit than a typical 787 flight. _IF_ Starship can achieve same re-usability as 787, then cost to orbit will be like $7.5/kg.