Cryptocurrency: AnCap Satcoms (re: Starlink Puts Satellite Internet to Shame)

[jamesd at echeque.com]

On 2020-11-02 08:12, grarpamp wrote:
>> Bell wrote:
>> https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/316819-starlink-beta-speed-tests-put-traditional-satellite-internet-to-shame
> 
> How much did the various "cube satellite" projects
> cost to get payload space on the launch carrier?
> 
> Seems that cryptocurrency ancap folks are now
> certainly able to buy space and launch an independent
> uncensorable physical network of cubesats into space,

For the cubesats to cost a reasonable amount, they have to smaller, less
numerous, and more distant than Musk's network.

Which would mean they would need vastly more expensive ground stations.

And, because considerably fewer of them, they would have to fly
considerably higher than Musk's satellites.

Further, space in orbit is starting to become a limited resource.
because people don't want satellites crashing into other satellites

You are looking at stupendous amounts of money, and endless busywork
with government bureaucracies.