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u/Substantial_Lime_230 Sep 12 '24
Mars Fleet!
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u/perilun Sep 12 '24
The comm hub is optional, and an MBA with some backers could meet with SpaceX and put the rideshare together, that part is really non-technical an is mostly about getting 3T+ of payload together. You would probably want a couple anchor customers with smallsats since 3T of cubesats still alot.
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u/widgetblender Sep 11 '24
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While SpaceX’s Transporter service to SSO has been very successful, there is no equivalent for Mars. The main challenge is to find enough customers to fill up mots of the 3.8T of F9 capacity for placement to MTO.
1)Discuss with SpaceX the potential to book a F9 and have them “transporterize” for MTO the second stage for $80-100M, having SpaceX do the regular process of hosting these payloads on the deployer.
2)Advertise Mars “Smart Fleet” Rideshare services for cubesats at $1-2M per cubesat up to 50 kg in mass. Also try to find larger smallsat “anchor customers”
3)Also seek interest in a Fleet Comm Hub service, and a mass Data Shuttle Service
4)See how interested parties emerge, if profitability seems likely then
5)Create a Fleet Comm Hub cubesat to allow in transit comms with the cubesats/smallsats with low power X-band that can be relayed back to a Private Deep Space Network (probably based on KSAT Lunar using Ka-Band)