NightOwltoWorld News@lemmy.ml·7 months agoRussia warns United States: use of SpaceX for spying makes its satellites a target(www.reuters.com)external-linkarrow-up1157arrow-down17message-square87fedilink
arrow-up1150arrow-down1external-linkRussia warns United States: use of SpaceX for spying makes its satellites a target(www.reuters.com)NightOwltoWorld News@lemmy.ml·7 months agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squareJohnDClayarrow-up3arrow-down0·7 months agolinkfedilinkReally? Where are you getting that info? This estimates a starlink costs about 1M to build and launch. The SM-3, the US asat missile, costs at least 10M each. I think it’s more for the asat variant, but I couldn’t find numbers for that. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-estimated-cost-for-Starlink-satellites-to-provide-high-speed-internet-across-the-United-States#:~:text=According to one source%2C the,be around %2415-30 billion. https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/missile-defense-systems-2/missile-defense-systems/missile-interceptors-by-cost/
Really? Where are you getting that info? This estimates a starlink costs about 1M to build and launch. The SM-3, the US asat missile, costs at least 10M each. I think it’s more for the asat variant, but I couldn’t find numbers for that. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-estimated-cost-for-Starlink-satellites-to-provide-high-speed-internet-across-the-United-States#:~:text=According to one source%2C the,be around %2415-30 billion. https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/missile-defense-systems-2/missile-defense-systems/missile-interceptors-by-cost/