muskstinks

I def also want to see continue progress and investing in space is only a problem in capitalism, which i'm not a big fan of anyway.

But it would be so much better if the person behind this would have more character.

With Raptor v3? The one they actually need to meet their payload targets? I thought that will happen in a few weeks.

Whats your source?

9 Million customers. I know a handful of people who use it as a secondary option who were everythign but 'left behind'

Thats not a lot of people.

And with the satelites risk and disruption to astronomy and the co2 usage, it might have affected more people negativly than positivly.

NASA gave SpaceX 400 Million just for the development of Falcon 9 and there is a video were Musk said SpaceX was bancrupt if NASA wouldnt have stepd in.

NASA also another 6 Billion upfront to SpaceX for Dragon and HLS.

So yes the american paid for the R&D of SpaceX.

SpaceX took the 'risk' but either succeeding or not in your main business is hardly a risk if you need to succeed anyway to have that business.

None of that makes sense.

Transportships even reduce speed to reduce costs.

If the payload doesn't pay for all of this, it was a huge R&D investmen from the american people to Musks scifi ideas

They are very good in finding money from somewhere to afford all of this.

If this doesn't play out to be reducing costs for the avg american, Musk was able to get funded by the american tax payer nicely.

They still need to prove that they can fire 33 of them in parallel reliable.

Time will show, plenty of ignorant decisions from Musk inbetween so yeah...

What 'new deal'? If you talk about Solar and PV, it adds value already independen of how little it is. Even dense city has roofs on top. Also they have highways which have plenty direct space next to them were no one wants to live or grow produce (due to polution)

germany stoped the investment and killed the solar industry. Not saying that China helped too, but we don't know if germany would have pushed through it without China.

If its a big market, SpaceX will have to share this sooner than later as plenty of others are working on this.

Nonetheless even in rural areas there is A LOT of coverage.

And starlink has one sig issue: its bandwidth.

For them to increase bandwdith they need to scale which is expensive and they have to reinvest every 5 years in replacing these satelites.

A fiber layed down can work for a lot longer and can be replaced a lot easier.

You will have a setup working based on solar energy and battery storage before you get spaceship to not explode anymore and to deliver low price for payload.

And we are talking about AI Datacenters, they are a lot less latency dependend than websites.

Alone the idea that Musk would be able to break through any burocrazy for space stuff and sets up a supply chain for everything space is easier than just setting up some energy and fiber, feels ridicoulys

Every city has phone lines. A phone line allows you to replace it with fiber. A fiber and a tower has long loves.

A star link server has 5 years.

Setting up a terrestrial network is already done and it was relativly easy because you build it up from most profitable to lowest profitable.

Star link only serves 9/10 Million people right now with already 10k satelites whith only a lifetime of 5 years and if this market is profitable, the margins will go down sign due to other competitors. Which are already working on it.

Star link is not a 'no-brainer' they currently have 9/10 million customers and need 10k star link satelites. One satelite costs 300k and works for 5 years.

To this, they need humans operating the space side, the base station, they need base stations etc.

It is affected by weather as well.

Its not a 'no-brainer' and while space x showed its somehow a business, amazon and others are entering this space now too. So they never had a first mover financial advantage making big bucks and others are coming which will drive customer base and margin down.

And data center in orbit is not just a pipe dream, its stupid on a whole new level. Smart would have been to build like a DC City in the middle of the USA were its super cheap and introducing the necessary infrastructure to it. But alone the R&D, the sending it up there, solving hard space problems just to not being able to touch hardware when it fails, man thats stupidity on a whole new level.

cable is still more stable than starlink. I have regularly issues on a teams call with starlink while it just works with cable.

And come on 100/10 is not bad despite the other 10gig fiber

Its my south/west balcony with a 1 square meter panel from some online shop. 400 watts, with an easy to install rail system for my balcony and a plug and inverter for ~400 Euros.