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Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

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199 points angadh | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 20:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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xnx ◴[26 Jun 25 20:41 UTC] No.44391125[source]▶
Starcloud isn't even worth the attention to point out what an infeasible idea it is.
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Brian_K_White ◴[27 Jun 25 01:50 UTC] No.44393122[source]▶
Maybe SpinLaunch can get it up there. And the power for the SpinLaunch motor can come from Solar Roadways.
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starik36 ◴[27 Jun 25 17:17 UTC] No.44398541[source]▶
There was a video from Scott Manley about this several years back. And he was very skeptical that it's even feasible for SpinLaunch to place something useful into orbit. And they haven't yet.
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1. Brian_K_White ◴[27 Jun 25 18:11 UTC] No.44398951[source]▶
Both SpinLaunch and Solar Roadways are pure farce.

Here is how to think about them: It doesn't matter how open your mind is, you will not fly by believing in your idea and working hard and never giving up developing strength and technique to jump higher.

Even though these things are all true: Everything that ever worked started out not working. You can fly a little bit by just jumping. You can even demonstrate progress by jumping harder.