| ▲ | viraptor 14 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> will come down to the bare cost of fuel + oxidizer And maintenance and replacing parts and managing flights and ... You're trying to yadda-yadda so much opex here! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | trhway 14 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It is SpaceX/Elon who bet billions on that yadda-yadda, not me. I wrote "If" for $10/kg. I'm sure though that they would easily yadda-yadda under sub-$100/kg - which is $15M per flight. And even with those $100/kg the datacenters in space still make sense as comparable to ground based and providing the demand for the huge Starship launch capacity. A datacenter costs ~$1000/ft^2. How much equipment per square foot is there? say 100kg (1 ton per rack plus hallway). Which is $1000 to put into orbit on Starship at $100/kg. At sub-$50/kg, you can put into orbit all the equipment plus solar panels and it would still be cheaper than on the ground. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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