Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 222 65.9%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.2%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 22.0%
  • Total voters
    337
#2,681
#2,681
Awesome picture with the woman (Mary, AKA Bocachicagal) generating so much of the content down in Boca Chica
 
#2,689
#2,689
VolStrom said:
Well that is disappointing. I was expecting a ~ $59 plus a $2-300 dollar up front cost like they were alluding to. I want one of these for my motorhome, but it may be a few years before they have anything mobile.
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I have this feeling with Amazon looking to do the same thing, prices will drop as others come online.

I saw something a few weeks ago that one of the major vehicle manufacturers was "thinking about" putting Starlink terminals on their vehicles.

That would be very interesting
 
#2,690
#2,690
Grand Vol said:
I have this feeling with Amazon looking to do the same thing, prices will drop as others come online.

I saw something a few weeks ago that one of the major vehicle manufacturers was "thinking about" putting Starlink terminals on their vehicles.

That would be very interesting
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That would be good news. My understanding of the technology is the antenna doesn't need to be aimed.
 
#2,692
#2,692
Grand Vol said:
I have this feeling with Amazon looking to do the same thing, prices will drop as others come online.

I saw something a few weeks ago that one of the major vehicle manufacturers was "thinking about" putting Starlink terminals on their vehicles.

That would be very interesting
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I don't see Amazon doing anything like Starlink for a while as Bezos' Blue Origin rocket company which he founded before Musk did SpaceX has still yet to actually put anything onto orbit. They have talked big and done a few suborbital tests and NASA has even got them bidding for a lunar lander but so far they have done nothing of note.
 
#2,699
#2,699
VolStrom said:
Well that is disappointing. I was expecting a ~ $59 plus a $2-300 dollar up front cost like they were alluding to. I want one of these for my motorhome, but it may be a few years before they have anything mobile.
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I was think the same about my motorhome. I watched YouTube video and they were saying at least initially that the system would be geofenced where you couldn't use it outside of a general area. Thought the mobile stuff would come later.

I'm in a rural area where my only choice is satellite or DSL. I'm going to switch as soon as it becomes available.
 
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