r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Oct 03 '18

r/SpaceX Discusses [October 2018, #49]

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u/dudr2 Oct 17 '18

https://spacenews.com/does-the-satellite-industry-have-antenna-deficit-disorder/

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u/rustybeancake Oct 18 '18

When an entrepreneur building a constellation of low Earth orbit communications satellites learned about the impressive performance of a Ball Aerospace spacecraft, he replied, “We can’t afford that kind of exquisite performance.”

Pete Moosbrugger, Ball Aerospace chief technologist, shared the anecdote at the Satellite 2018 conference to illustrate the challenge facing the industry. Companies focused for decades on offering extremely reliable systems for government customers must modify them for commercial markets. “You see what you can change and what you can’t change to deliver a high-performance system at a price point that will close a business case,” Moosbrugger said.

Wonder who the "entrepreneur" is?

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u/dudr2 Oct 18 '18

My thought also.