Comment by mulmen
1 day ago
Because you need an enormous amount of energy to run the servers. You may hide the downlinks but you still need power.
1 day ago
Because you need an enormous amount of energy to run the servers. You may hide the downlinks but you still need power.
I'm not sure how you maintain hidden ground stations while providing a commercial service that justifies many $MM in capital and requires state support to get launch permission.
> I'm not sure how you maintain hidden ground stations while providing a commercial service that justifies many $MM in capital and requires state support to get launch permission.
Who said that Starcloud's business model is about commercial services? At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397026 I rather speculate that Starcloud's business model is about getting big money defense contracts.
Yeah exactly. We’re riffing on how implausible that is, right?