C'est une vraie dinguerie. Starlink sera accessible à tous les téléphone déjà existant avec les réseaux existants sauf que ... le signal couvrira la terre entière sans aucun besoin d'antenne ...
Starlink devient un opérateur mondial accessible matériellement avec n'importe quel téléphone.
Le ... 27 janvier ! (pour les premiers test mais quand même)
Elon Musk: I started reading about rockets to understand why they're so freaking expensive.
“I started reading quite a bit about rockets to try to understand why they're so freaking expensive. Where does the $60 million go for the Delta II? Now Delta II, I think, is $100 million or something, some crazy number. And Delta II is a relatively small rocket. If you go to one of the bigger rockets, it's anywhere from $200 to $400 million.
Anyway, so I came to the conclusion that there wasn't really a good reason for rockets to be so expensive, and that they could be a lot less. Even in an expendable format, they could be less.
And that if one could make them reusable, like airplanes, then the cost of rocketry would drop dramatically, the cost of space travel would drop dramatically.
Because the cost of the fuel was maybe anywhere from 0.2% to 0.5% of the cost of the rocket.
It's like a plane. How much is the cost of the fuel in the plane versus the plane itself? It's at least a two-order-of-magnitude difference.
But nobody had really been able to make a reusable rocket work. So I thought, if we can do that, then that would really be the key breakthrough for space travel.”
Interview at the Computer History Museum, January 22, 2013
Simplement génial !
J'ai regardé son discours avant la polémique autour du salut, et il est vraiment dommage que les gens n'aient pas prêté attention à ce qu'il a dit...
Du souffle, des rêves, de l'optimisme...
Même si tout devait s'arrêter là, l'Amérique a déjà gagné ...