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The cost breakdown: 40 x $250k = $10m 1 falcon9 launch = $30m ------------------------ $40m https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/12/spacex-starlink-satell...
The Falcon 9 should be pro-rated since some of the mission payload survived. 40 x $250k = $10m 1 falcon9 launch * (40 / 49) = $24.5m ------------------------------------- $34.5m
Rough luck. Sounds like no real risk or huge loss though. Imagine any other company on earth losing 40 satellites at a time and shrugging it off. That would bankrupt most space companies (except for maybe Planet). SpaceX is really working at different orders of magnitude here.
Unintentional pun on "orbits", perhaps?
It's incredible to me that launching satellites is so easy now that a failure of 40 satellites can be tolerated. On the bright side, I guess this gave SpaceX a chance to talk about their debris-limiting strategy!
The cost breakdown: 40 x $250k = $10m 1 falcon9 launch = $30m ------------------------ $40m https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/12/spacex-starlink-satell...
The Falcon 9 should be pro-rated since some of the mission payload survived. 40 x $250k = $10m 1 falcon9 launch * (40 / 49) = $24.5m ------------------------------------- $34.5m
The cost breakdown: 40 x $250k = $10m 1 falcon9 launch = $30m ------------------------ $40m https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/12/spacex-starlink-satell...
The Falcon 9 should be pro-rated since some of the mission payload survived. 40 x $250k = $10m 1 falcon9 launch * (40 / 49) = $24.5m ------------------------------------- $34.5m
Link to anchor: https://www.spacex.com/updates/index.html#sl-geostrom (sic)
Here's a snapshot for after that post eventually falls off: https://archive.ph/dxEAo
[EDIT] OK I made the wrong assumption that this was due to radiation, but it was due to the atmosphere being 50% more dense than usual due to the storm, which led to failure of the satellites. This makes good sense. Next time I'll read TFA before I comment!
> SpaceX deploys its satellites into these lower obits Unintentional pun on "orbits", perhaps? It's incredible to me that launching satellites is so easy now that a failure of 40 satellites can be tolerated. On the bright side, I guess this gave SpaceX a chance to talk about their debris-limiting strategy!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Falcon 9 should be pro-rated since some of the mission payload survived. 40 x $250k = $10m 1 falcon9 launch * (40 / 49) = $24.5m ------------------------------------- $34.5m
Isn’t that retail cost of launch? Since they own the spaceships it should be 1/2 or less of the retail price.
Of all press releases in recent memory, this is the one that reads the most like hard science fiction.