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Turyshev's preprint (April 2026) finds that matching a terrestrial benchmark of 10-40 thousand dollars per kW allows only 250-1,000 $/kg for launch plus build, 3.4-13.5 times below the current public Falcon 9 dedicated launch price alone. Copy claim link
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Date 2026-04-29 · publication Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Independent preprint; the comparison is to a public price benchmark, not to projected Starship prices, and the paper finds early niches (space-native preprocessing) credible. It was earliest located in the pack; the cross-family check’s bounded search found ESPI Report 98 (November 2025), now earliest located (a correction recorded on the collection page).
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Orbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability (arXiv:2604.27197v1) ↗ arXiv · 2026-04-29
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Source excerpt “a terrestrial infrastructure benchmark of 10–40 k$/kW allows only 250–1000 $/kg for the combined launch and spacecraft-build cost before space-to-ground communications, operations, utilization, and lifetime terms are included. That allowance is 3.4–13.5 times below the current public Falcon 9 dedicated low-Earth-orbit launch-price benchmark alone” Location in source abstract
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Source details and check notes Authors Slava G. Turyshev Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 c7cfde382e0b5a752c45ce6d6bd7a77ad0a6d514891f45aad5117d75466c232b). arXiv v1, stamped 29 Apr 2026, "(Dated: May 1, 2026)". An author's preprint; not a statement of JPL or NASA. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 c7cfde382e0b5a752c45ce6d6bd7a77ad0a6d514891f45aad5117d75466c232b, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Slava G. Turyshev, “Orbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability (arXiv:2604.27197v1)”, 2026-04-29. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (44 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 104) re-read the record’s sources and found full support. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Orbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability (arXiv:2604.27197v1) ↗ arXiv · 2026-04-29
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Paraphrase the abstract calls space-native preprocessing and communications-integrated edge compute credible early regimes.
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Source details and check notes Authors Slava G. Turyshev Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 c7cfde382e0b5a752c45ce6d6bd7a77ad0a6d514891f45aad5117d75466c232b). arXiv v1, stamped 29 Apr 2026, "(Dated: May 1, 2026)". An author's preprint; not a statement of JPL or NASA. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 c7cfde382e0b5a752c45ce6d6bd7a77ad0a6d514891f45aad5117d75466c232b, the same bytes). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Slava G. Turyshev, “Orbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability (arXiv:2604.27197v1)”, 2026-04-29. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 104) re-read the record’s sources and found full support. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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