"I hope we do not have to put this to a test, but I think we can launch satellites faster than they can launch anti-satellite missiles," Musk added.
Based Musk. Elon will hook rockets to his mind probes and launch satellites with thought. His army of Teslas in Russia could be shut off remotely. I don't think this will happen
Starlink sats cost 250k $. They are launched 48 at a time, 15 million $ per launch. So ~560k $ to replace one.
US anti sat missiles/anti-ICBM missiles RIM-161 cost 12 million $. Russia uses similar missiles A-235. If the price is similar, Russia would spend 12 million $ to cost Elon 0.56 million $ per Starlink they blow up. 21:1 disadvantage. Its so expensive because they destroy their complex rockets at every launch, instead of reusing them like Elon.
Cost correlates to complexity, so speed of producing 12million $ missiles should be much less than $250k satellites. Russia has 1400 deployed ICBMs. Their Anti-ICBMs should be around that number logically. If Russia blew up the 2000 Starlinks in orbit, they would have a shortage of missiles to counter a nuclear attack. Unlikely they would put themselves in this position. It would also cost them 24 Billion $ to damage Elon for 1.1 Billion $.
He paid 11 Billion $ in taxes last year, enough to replace the entire Starlink fleet ten times over. He can afford the loss.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
Based Musk. Elon will hook rockets to his mind probes and launch satellites with thought. His army of Teslas in Russia could be shut off remotely. I don't think this will happen
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
Starlink sats cost 250k $. They are launched 48 at a time, 15 million $ per launch. So ~560k $ to replace one.
US anti sat missiles/anti-ICBM missiles RIM-161 cost 12 million $. Russia uses similar missiles A-235. If the price is similar, Russia would spend 12 million $ to cost Elon 0.56 million $ per Starlink they blow up. 21:1 disadvantage. Its so expensive because they destroy their complex rockets at every launch, instead of reusing them like Elon.
Cost correlates to complexity, so speed of producing 12million $ missiles should be much less than $250k satellites. Russia has 1400 deployed ICBMs. Their Anti-ICBMs should be around that number logically. If Russia blew up the 2000 Starlinks in orbit, they would have a shortage of missiles to counter a nuclear attack. Unlikely they would put themselves in this position. It would also cost them 24 Billion $ to damage Elon for 1.1 Billion $.
He paid 11 Billion $ in taxes last year, enough to replace the entire Starlink fleet ten times over. He can afford the loss.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 3 years ago
Think you need to account for misses. I would bet most miss. Could be wrong though.