With price per kg to orbit dropping, you can afford much more off-the-shelf components for satellites and using more cheap and redundant parts, instead of high quality bespoke stuff.
Only if SpaceX can work out how to get it out of Starship. It is not as trivial as it sounds, and so far they have shown no inclination to work on the problem.
[−]actionfromafar · 2026-11-15 Sun 09:42 UTC ·
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They could if they wanted to but for now it seems optimized to poop out little bom... sorry I mean little Starlinks.
With price per kg to orbit dropping, you can afford much more off-the-shelf components for satellites and using more cheap and redundant parts, instead of high quality bespoke stuff.