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Oh, I certainly agree that r&d is probably higher than manufacture, but they are ninijisibg the cost to replace. There is also runk cost fallacy to consider.

Russia doesn't have the spare cash lying in the couch as you say and the cost to manufacturer is higher when under sanctions. The ability to manufacturer is also hamstring.

Lol, all-hands-on-dick

OP has a solid point about costs sunk into R&D. A second unit is an order of magnitude cheaper to launch. OTOH, Russia broke as fuck.

Especially since they've currently got a big, expensive war on their hands, that they're all-hands-on-deck for.

How much do you think it costs to build and launch a new satellite? Do you have enough faith in Russian manufactthat this won’t happen again, in a slightly different way? Will all the replacement money end up where it should?

They are trying to destroy his Starlink network.

Hey, fuck you dude.

Do you want Modi to claim attack by Pakistan and start WW3?


I had Kessler syndrome but my card says it's Elon's fault somehow

I didn't predict it yet.. it somehow feels like I should have.

We'll see.

I have that a satellite falls in Indian city and is radioactive, but nobody gives a shit.

Their space program sure isn’t something

Is there a source that isn't "US analysts"?

That's about as reliable as "Russian analysts" or "Chinese analysts" right now.

I'm not sure how much of a setback this is.

If it failed and it's out of control, I assume that it's an issue with normal "satellite" things --- the computer or the thrusters or whatever, stuff that's involved in maneuvering the satellite. A failure in systems that Russia can and has done before. Not with the radar systems onboard.

And I'd guess that the costs are mostly in R&D rather than the manufacturing of the satellite, costs that wouldn't need to be repeated for Russia to build such a satellite over again.

I assume that if Russia wants to do so, they can launch a replacement satellite.