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A lunar mass driver cannot pay for itself by cutting launch costs, because launch is already a small part of what an orbital computer costs.

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  1. Casey Handmer

    Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    At even $500/kg, launch cost is only 5% of the total satellite deployment cost, so a lunar mass driver is unlikely to drastically improve the economics of space-based AI, by reducing launch costs.

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    ↗How to build a lunar mass drivercaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

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