Comment by fc417fc802

I never said it wouldn't be useful, only that it isn't likely to happen. Amortized costs would reflect that. So it seems we agree?

> If you could pay a few space sherpas $100k to head up into LEO and service the thing, it would definitely be worth it.

Would it? Whatever you pay to launch the repair tech plus the replacement parts could instead be spent launching new hardware. Obviously the repair payload is a fraction of the total weight of new hardware but is it a small enough fraction to make repairing things worthwhile? I think it's likely that disposable is cheaper in this scenario.