Mario Lombardo wrote:
> Ronan, seriously I think it costs more than $30k/lb. for lofting? They
> have to position it as well, true? When you said Zaurus, I thought of a
> hardened case and RF equipment. It would weigh hmmm five pounds or so?
>
I think that NASA charges commercial companies $30K/lb for LEO.
Geosynchronous should be much more expensive.
> Now how many people would contribute money to have that thing lofted to
> have a FREE network? I, for one, would chip in $100 and I'M BROKE!
> Sooo worst case $200000/100 = 2,000 people
>
If the satellites are in LEO, you have better latency times, but you
need some very exotic motor-driven antenna mounts to do communications.
> Better yet, why don't we unwind some old transformers and build us a
> rail gun? No fuel!
>
Florida is close enough to the equator to make a rail gun launch, but it
is much too close to sea level.
--ronan
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