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Casteil on Feb 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it...

Starlink V2 sats are bigger, so they definitely won't be sending 400+ up at a time with Starship - probably more like 100-200.. but I don't think they've had any official updates/figures on this in a while.

bryanlarsen on Feb 27, 2024 [–]

They just confirmed that 24 V2 minis are 17.5 tons. So ~200 v2 minis would be 150 tons. But v2's are probably bigger than v2 mini's...

ianburrell on Feb 27, 2024 | [–]

The V2 are 1.25 ton according to Wikipedia. Which means 150 tons would be 100-120.

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