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Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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364 points metalman | 4 comments | 26 Aug 25 23:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.53s | source
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Pigalowda ◴[26 Aug 25 23:59 UTC] No.45033827[source]▶
So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.
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1. decimalenough ◴[27 Aug 25 00:05 UTC] No.45033872[source]▶
Starship will be deploying the next gen v3 satellites, which weigh about 2 tons each. A single Starship launch with 60 of these deploys more capacity than 20 launches of a Falcon 9.
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2. xeromal ◴[27 Aug 25 01:35 UTC] No.45034471[source]▶
Wow, that really puts it into perspective
3. Pedro_Ribeiro ◴[27 Aug 25 02:50 UTC] No.45034938[source]▶
The figures they've been talking of the ideal cost per launch of starship are even more insane. I'm sure some of it is hype farming on Twitter but if they get the cost to less then $1000/kg it would be incredible.
4. geerlingguy ◴[27 Aug 25 04:39 UTC] No.45035517[source]▶
IIRC the v3 sats can do like 1 Tbps of bandwidth thanks to a larger antenna system?