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Better get the cost of a pound to orbit down.
The actual SPS bits is, really, engineering, not research - we've known how to build SPS since the 70s. The deal killer here is that it costs (average) $10,000 per pound to orbit.
Which is where a space elevator or three might come in handy.
Posted by: Brian on May 18, 2007 2:50 PM
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