Vyacheslav Ermolin, November 25, 2020
Mission:
Starlink-15 - launch of 60 communication satellites. Fifteenth launch of Starlink v1.0. For SpaceX's future LEO commercial Internet system Starlink.
Motto:
"Internet from orbit for the whole Earth - money for the colonization of Mars."
There is no official motto.
:
25 2020 02:13 UTC.
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Falcon 9 (Block 5). B1049.7 ( ). - ( ) . 15 600 (22 800 ). - SpaceX.
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60 Starlink v1.0. . . 4 . . Star Tracker. .
(1584 ) (4 425 ) 53° . Ka-/Ku-. (4 ) .
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: 260 x 270 x 53°. : 550 550 x 53°.
20 .
: 18 , 20 , 20 . : 72 5 22 ( ) — 1584 -/Ku-.
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— 7- Falcon F9 B1049.7.
— 101- Falcon 9. . (AMOC-6).
— 77- ( 10 ).
— 22- SpaceX 2020 ( SpaceX). .
— 1- 4- Falcon 9.
— . 2- 3- .
— 900 Starlink v 1.0. 20 , . 180 .
— 0.9 (60 ) . 10 .
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— 2021 .
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Starlink . 15 13 . (), ( ).
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SpaceX 1 Starlink.
— $500 .
— $100 (1 ). $1,2 .
: Starlink $1,7 (1 ).
1 500 Starlink . - , 60 Falcon 9 ( ).
— 1 500 /60 = 25 Falcon 9.
— $30 ( Falcon 9) 25 = $750 ( ).
— 60 Starlink = Falcon 9 = $30 ($500 000 ).
— $750 ( 1 500 ).
: $1,5 ( 1 500 Starlink).
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- On Starlink plates, I count the profit = 0 (this is at best, most likely it is still more expensive in production).
- $ 1.2 billion of subscription fees are considered net income (before taxes and other payments).
Conclusion:
One to two million subscribers in the world will generate about 1 billion rubles of net profit for Spacex. But it will have to launch 1,500 satellites (25 Falcon 9 launches) a year.
For 10 years, spending $ 15 billion, SpaceX will receive 10-15 billion rubles of net profit from several million users.
With such assumptions, the project can "take off", and if you connect not 2-3 million subscribers, but 20-30, then you can finance flights to Mars.
(Calculations are conditional, there is no real data. Just self-indulgence.)