SpaceX’s Space AI Challenge: 5,000 Launches a Year
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#7926M)
Five thousand launches a year means nearly fourteen launches every day. At an assumed 200 tonnes of payload per V4 Starship flight, that would deliver one million tonnes to orbit annually. Under the satellite power-density assumptions in my latest video, that supports 50-100 gigawatts of new orbital AI capacity per year. Those numbers explain why ...